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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most behavioral scientists believe that aggressive behavior is learned, often by observation, and some are convinced that violence on TV fosters violent behavior in both children and adults. Along with eleven other researchers who carried out studies for the U.S. Surgeon General, Psychologist Robert Liebert asserts that, for healthy as well as disturbed children, "a clear and important link has been shown between TV violence and aggressive behavior." As for the theory that watching TV violence drains off the viewer's own savage impulses, Political Scientist Ithiel de Sola Pool maintains that "if there is any kind of cathartic...
...Herbert Blumer. All the same, Blumer considers Goffman "an innovative scholar" who "can take human interplay which appears humdrum and show it to be intricate, dynamic and dramatic." Indeed, Goffman's work may be not so much social science as social commentary. In the words of one behavioral scientist, "Goffman is the waste of a good novelist...
Much of this friendly distance can be attributed to her European upbringing and background. Last year her graduate seminar read Weber's Science as a Vocation, an essay concerned with the obligation of the professor to be a value-free social scientist. Her students by and large agree that Shklar, too, seems to believe in this posture. She is committed to the non-committal stance on the part of the teacher towards students when political and personal views are discussed. Strongly opposed to subjectivism and irrationalism, she has never tried to impinge on the opinions of her students...
...three-dimensional terms, which no drafting board does, or does only in a very theoretical way." "He had the feeling (that later on was corroborated by Herbert Read) that new ideas, new feelings for new developments altogether, came first to the practicing artist, not to the philosopher or scientist; they usually get the message a little later. Instinctive reaction, you know--Picasso or all these early people did things that later on were explained by Einstein and lots of other scientists or philosophers, but you almost always find a practicing three-dimensional artist or painter, or sculptor: they are usually...
...place of Herrnstein's speech, the Colloquium Committee will devote this week's time to a discussion of free speech as raised by this case, and of a scientist's responsibility to discuss his work...