Word: sociologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days later Mrs. Roosevelt was in Boston to tell the sociologist alumnae of Simmons College about the "Problems of Youth," to whom "after all, divorce isn't a problem. All they want to do is get married." Baited for a retort to Mrs. Feehan, tactful Mrs. Roosevelt replied: "Everyone has a right to his opinions, and to say them...
...started the first college course in marriage was ruddy little Ernest Rutherford Groves, 60, University of North Carolina's famed sociologist. He has been married twice (his first wife died ), has four children. To tell others how to find happiness in marriage he has written 28 books (six of them with his second wife...
Said Colgate University's Sociologist Norman E. Himes: "Though birth control is now accepted in principle by the majority of the American people . . . our 400 clinics reach only a small proportion of the population. . . . Present reproductive trends point to a possible decline in the intelligence of the American people. . . . America urgently needs a biological plan...
...social life of big prisons such as Sing Sing, convicts tend to form groups, and each group has a leader. The phenomenon of leadership in prisons is of considerable interest to prison officials, because they think that leaders are troublemakers. It is also of interest to sociologists as a part of general convict psychology. In Sing Sing, Richard Whitney is a celebrity and a man apart, but he is not likely to become a group leader. This was indicated last week by a thoroughgoing analysis of leadership in prison which appeared in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology...
...three years spent as "clinical sociologist" in the Menard Branch of the Illinois State Penitentiary, Mr. Clemmer played baseball, football and other games with the convicts, talked to them sympathetically when they were sick or downcast, won their confidence. He thus learned the identity of certain leaders, their qualifications and what their followers thought of them. One trait which every leader seemed to need to keep his following was that of being "right"-i. e., of not truckling to the prison authorities. Mr. Clemmer admits that leaders are often at the bottom of "conflict situations"-riots, mass demonstrations, group escapes...