Word: riesmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect of late-night talk shows on the TV generation currently at college would make a nice termpaper topic for David Riesman's course. But it might be fair to suggest meanwhile that among those who occasionally daydream of great achievement in whatever field (an affliction especially prevalent among the readers and writers of this newspaper), a common denominator of such daydreams is that they often take the form of telling it to Dick Cavett...
...Patrick Moynihan pointed out in his controversial report on black family life, black women tend to be the center of households more often than white women. Black women, interestingly, are more likely to go to college than black men are. According to Christopher Jencks and David Riesman in The Academic Revolution, "Among other things this reflects the fact that at least until recently they have had a better chance than their brothers of getting a professional job once they earned a degree...
...Riesman, on sabbatical leave at Princeton, called the rise in grades "a move away from meritocracy." He said it undermined a rigid rating of people according to intelligence...
...Riesman said that easy grading allows the affluent to maintain their status while it devalues the efforts of hard working students from blue-collar families. He foresaw this as a new source of conflict between the "already arrived" and the "upwardly mobile...
...Riesman said, "there's a feeling (among college faculties) we've got to tighten standards...