Word: karabel
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...There is an irony in this. Their prominence, in view of the quality of the analysis, seems to belie the very existence of the mysterious meritocracy which they purport to endorse. There is an unmysterious reason for this. The empirical and historical work of Bourdieu, Jenks, Bowles, Edwards and Karabel, et al, demonstrate that educational and occupational advances are largely, although not exclusively, determined by the structural needs and inequities of the system. Loury, Keys and Co. seem to empirically validate the conclusions of the aforementioned intellectuals. For without any analytis of scholarly contribution of intellectual depth or originality...
...interview yesterday. The study, published in the Chicago weekly newspaper in These Times, found that the NBA racial pattern "is to showed" that it "would be very difficult to explain if racial factors were not operative in at least some cities," according to co-author Jerome B. Karabel, an associate of the Sociology Department...
...Karabel and Karen did not conduct interviews with NBA or team officials, relying strictly on a statistical analysis of the racial men of teams and the general population. Yet the pair are confident that the pattern they observed cannot be explained by coincidence. "As observers we went in expecting to find a pattern, but we were quite surprises at finding out how strong the pattern was," Karen said...