Word: sociologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite a season of well-publicized student political protests both in the U.S. and abroad, the vast majority of university undergraduates are either apolitical or supporters of well-established parties. So concludes Harvard Sociologist and Political Scientist Seymour Martin Lipset, in a worldwide study of collegiate political views print ed in the latest issue of the intellectual quarterly Daedalus...
...that the Divinity School curriculum should reflect more of the church's concern with the eradication of social ills. By coincidence, Bok and Stendahl are good personal friends and have a common interest in things Swedish: Bok's wife is the daughter of Sweden's great sociologist, Gunnar Myrdal...
21st Century Preview. New York has chosen a different way. While California educators prefer the masterly simplicity of their own plan, Clark Kerr considers New York's program "the most important single development in higher education today." It is working so well, observes Harvard Sociologist David Riesman, that New York "is well on its way to overtaking California in the quality of its public higher education." Justifiably proud, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller boasts: "If you want to preview the American university of the 21st century, look at what is happening in higher education at S.U.N.Y. today...
...Manning argues that this merely "reveals the extent to which the disadvantaged person is cheated in his education." Any cultural bias in the exams, the testers add, reflects the fact that college instruction and grading are also biased in favor of students with a middleclass style of verbal ability. Sociologist David A. Goslin of the Russell Sage Foundation argues that reliance on vocabulary skills should not be considered an evil in itself. "If facility with the English language is necessary for success in our society," he says, "then a test of verbal ability in English is not an unfair yardstick...
Invaluable Trip. "Of course I had," Yablonsky conceded out of court. "But I took the Fifth because I didn't want to go to jail. I feel very strongly that a sociologist should be able to study a social problem without fear of being guilty of illegal behavior." In his book on tne hippies, to be published in March, Yablonsky not only admits that he observed drug use and sales, but describes his own experiment with marijuana and a harrowing LSD trip he and his wife took together-all illegal activities. The trip, Yablonsky contends, gave him "invaluable perspective...