Word: kelman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...presented at Galley's court-martial. What is still more worrisome, though, is a conclusion drawn by researchers that indicates a national social malaise. Americans toward the lower end of the economic scale felt most strongly that Calley was only rightfully following orders. Their judgment, says Professor Herbert Kelman, one of the scholars who prepared the study, "reflects their whole relationship to society, the feeling that they are pawns, not independent agents." Kelman thinks that this self-assessment by poorer Americans is accurate: "In reality they are not their own agents; they in fact have no real control over...
Herbert C. Kelman, Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, said that although "Herrnstein tries to build a case for his conclusion, I don't think that the results he comes to are inevitable...
...Nevertheless, I think it's a very challenging piece. Herrnstein is proposing some very strong challenges to the liberal assumption that if we could only increase opportunity to open up our system, our social problems would be solved," Kelman continued...
...Kelman said that he was worried that Herrnstein's argument could be used by those who wanted to cut off the drive to equalize opportunity...
...whole thing as a challenge that must be dealt with. Although it can be used to support arguments that I'd be unhappy about, I feel it's definitely worth thinking about. If that's the way we're going, then we'd better do something," Kelman said...