Word: sociologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rockefeller-endowed General Education Board, University of North Carolina, WPA and NYA collaborated to examine nearly the entire youthful population of eight representative city and country districts: 44,963 Tarheels aged 6 to 25, rich & poor, white & black. Their report, Paths to Maturity, written by the university's Sociologist Gordon W. Lovejoy, found that...
...Sociologist Lovejoy's prime recommendation to the eight investigated communities : have schools give pupils more vocational guidance. Viewing with alarm "the appalling consequences of permitting practically one-half of our youths to believe that they can crowd themselves into a few occupations," he declared: "It is up to some institution . . . unquestionably the schools . . . to bring the dreams of youth and the realities of available jobs into harmony...
...Many a sociologist and historian used to agree with Paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn that Anglo-Saxons were God's special gift to earth. Osborn was a leading eugenist in the days when many believed that the "unfit" should be weeded out rather than cared for under public health measures which coddled weaklings, allowed them to reproduce, ultimately lead to an inferior stock. While these ideas have occasionally furnished fodder for opponents of public housing, relief, the New Deal, the only places where they are still flourishing today are Nazi Germany and Italy. Long before Henry Osborn died...
...Bishop Sheil's plan has been Chicago's smelly, run-down "back of the yards" district (subject of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle), whose packinghouse population of 65,000 is almost 95% Catholic. Fifteen months ago, with the bishop's blessing, friendly, chesty Jewish Sociologist Saul Alinsky set up a Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council. Aim: to reconcile the potentially conflicting interests of business, labor, politics and religion in a crowded, depressed industrial area. Typical Council results to date: C. I. O. leaders helping the Chamber of Commerce in its membership drive...
Organized last month with Sociologist Alinsky's aid was a similar neighborhood council at Kansas City, Kans. Another is now being formed at South St. Paul, Minn. Each council will Support itself, will get advice and technical consultants from the Industrial Areas Foundation. Protestants, Jews and Catholics are on the I. A. F. board of directors...