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...city and country, on the left and the right, comes a shared sense of despair at the carnage. "There's an absolutely solid, growing sense that we've got to do something about all those guns," says sociologist Stephen Klineberg of Rice University in Houston. "Most Americans are against taking away the rights of individuals to own a gun. But what they're increasingly demanding is rational control over guns...
Many experts dig deeper -- but the roots they pull up are a messy tangle of societal ills. "We have a whole generation of kids suffering from neglect," says sociologist Stephen Klineberg of Houston's Rice University. "There is no one at home when they return from school, and this neglect in socialization results in increased violence." Others cite neglect's twin evil, child abuse, or that distant relative, school truancy. Liberals decry poverty; conservatives fault the decline of family values...
...nuclear weapons. "There is great concern that there are no serious efforts for arms control," says Thomas Halsted, 48, director of the Boston-based Physicians for Social Responsibility. "Instead, the Reagan Administration gives us pronouncements that nuclear weapons are usable and that nuclear wars are winnable." Adds Dr. Stephen Klineberg, professor of sociology at Rice University in Houston: "Reagan has terrified not only the Russians, but the Americans...
Keeping a Distance. Otto Klineberg, a social psychologist from Columbia who is now a visiting professor at the Sorbonne, was struck by the contrast with his students at home. "In my seminars at Columbia, I could hardly talk for three minutes before I was interrupted. Here, it is hard to get the students to talk at all. One has to draw them out. This is the culmination of a long effort to keep a distance between the teachers and the students...
Along with Allport in the plea, which was stimulated by the recent outbreaks of religious vandalism, were Dr. Otto Klineberg, professor of Psychology at Columbia, and Dr. Robin M. Williams, Jr., professor of Sociology at Cornell...