Word: sociologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...future issues, the Behavior staff will be writing about almost everything that falls beneath that broad heading, from hippies' communes to animal studies that shed light on man's actions, from ESP to minorities and prejudice. As the major story in the first section, the editors present Sociologist Erving Goffman and his studies of the rules underlying behavior at the impromptu social events that he calls "gatherings." The story was written by Associate Editor John Koffend and edited by Senior Editor John T. Elson, both of whom this week launch a section that TIME intends...
None may be more important to life than the type of event that Sociologist Erving Goffman calls "gatherings." These human groupings are often so fleeting and informal as to be unrecognizable as social functions-a ride in an elevator, two strangers passing on the street. They also include such emphatic events as the cocktail party. No less than the state and the family, the gathering has its own rules and laws. It is Goffman's contention that without the implicit obedience that these laws of behavior systematically command, the grander and more visible forms of human association would probably...
...book called A Rumor of Angels (Doubleday; $4.50), Peter L. Berger, perhaps the leading U.S. sociologist of religion, suggests that the very scientific methods that have helped to challenge traditional belief in the world of the spirit can be the starting point for a new and better faith...
...students of the famous sociologist--many of them lounging with him on the grass--say that he writes in Hebrew like Talcott Parsons writes in English. The American students remark that he even writes in English Parsonesquely. He is not universally loved: "When I came to Hebrew University I was looking for an excuse to get out of sociology, and professor Eisenstadt gave it to me," an Israeli philosophy student remarked. But for most of his students and for nearly all the academic world, Eisenstadt's work is exciting, brilliant, and extraordinarily relevant...
...many of his years of research and several of his published works have been on the huge problems of his own country, Israel, and he talks about his land like a sociologist, with greater objectivity and less overt passion than most Israelis, but also with a dash of warmth and a sense of wistfulness for the solutions to the problems he is describing...