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...article, by Thomas F. Pettigrew '55, professor of Social Psychology and Sociology, and Robert L. Green of Michigan State University, challenges Coleman both on his research methodology and on his alleged overuse of the mass media to influence public policy...
...Pettigrew and Green article criticizes coleman and the news media for alleged confusing research data and political biases. They say Coleman, who in October testified before Congress in favor of a proposed anti-busing amendment to the Constitution, has taken political positions without making clear that his personal views were not fully supported by his research data...
...Pettigrew also says Coleman based his conclusions on racial trends only since 1968, after large-scale desegregation plans had gone into effect in the cities studied...
...former member of the school committee, have thought over the years that desegregation could be prevented. Now they are frustrated. "When a community senses that social change is going to take place come hell or high water, you don't get violence," says Harvard Social Psychologist Thomas Pettigrew. "But the people in Boston have been told for years that busing is not inevitable, that it will not happen here. Such a constant holding out of hope has a devastating effect...
...Urban Institute has invited Coleman's critics to a private discussion of his findings, and has promised to release copies of the study before the August 4 meeting, Pettigrew said...