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Berle has no faith in automatic human evolution for the better. His chief bias is an old New Deal planner's intolerance of chaos-which may not prove as intolerable as he thinks. His analysis of power is a great deal more congenial to the American mind than Machiavelli's, which separated power from ethics. In outlining a basis for the post-modern world. Berle makes clear that power succeeds only with the help of philosophers, whose task is to cause man to agree on ideas of good and evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Concert of Empires | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...This bias is likely to have unfortunate effects on both teaching and research. In particular, it leads to overemphasis on studies that tend to support existing policies and institutions and to the neglect of research on radical forms of social change...

Author: By Center FOR International affairs, | Title: In Defense of the CFIA Social Research And the Center | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

Weiglass mentioned the vagueness of the indictment and the apparent bias of the judge at the Chicago trial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoffman Criticizes Chicago Court, But Says Trial Is 'A Lot of Fun' | 10/27/1969 | See Source »

Throughout the interview. Vernon would act the lion tamer. He would kid about radical criticism of the Center and then smile for agreement. At one point, when I asked about a book entitled United States Manufacturing in Brazil and quoted a passage from a Center Report showing its political bias, he explained that the precis was poorly done, and that the book was really about...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance? | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

This kind of reasoning suggests that it is at least highly probable that some kinds of research in the social sciences are biased in favor of certain value assumptions. Such bias naturally has political effects, although these might not be apparent until a new perspective challenges the general consensus in the society's frame of reference...

Author: By Jay Burke, | Title: Money and the Social Scientist | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

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