Word: lipset
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Seymour Martin Lipset, a sociology professor at Stanford University and Everett C. Ladd, researcher at the University of Connecticut's Social Data Center, conducted the survey...
...Lipset and Ladd sent the questionnaire to randomly selected schools and faculty members in 1977, asking the respondents to rank "the five departments nationally in your discipline that have the most distinguished faculties...
Some political scientists were troubled that most of Carter's successes were in foreign affairs. Observed Seymour Martin Lipset of the Hoover Institution in Stanford, Calif: "Carter is in the same boat as Nixon, looking good abroad while facing a sea of domestic troubles." But the President did salvage some gains: a truncated energy bill despite the Administration's confused and uncertain performance of a year earlier, Civil Service reform and a veto of wasteful water projects...
...visible. Maybe the little energy left over from the '60s got mostly spent, in secret, on assimilating and liquidating the traumas and griefs of that overlong epoch. If so, then perhaps the most memorable thing about the '70s has been simply that, as Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset observed, "nothing disastrous is happening." Such a historical pause may not at the moment seem worth remembering - but it will as soon as disaster drops among us again...
...results of Lipset's survey have been widely quoted in the media and used to create a very distorted and superficial picture of American professors, John T. Tate '46, professor of Mathematics, said yesterday...