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Most people today are in a state of "betweenity,' " says Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist. "They are caught between the new morality and the old. As long as they're not asked to make a statement, they'll ignore what's been going on. But they don't want to legitimate it." Youngquist also feels that while people are freer about private morality, they are becoming more conservative about the public and commercial exploitation of sex. Says he: "It's not that we have no rules, we have new rules. Kiddie porn...
Columbia University Sociologist Amitai Etzioni agrees that the weakening of traditional standards could have dangers. Says he: "No political society has ever survived without its nuclear family intact. We can't go on becoming more and more liberal. We can't go on becoming ever more tolerant and pulling the nuclear family apart...
...state. He goes on to argue that Leopold Senghor's theory of "Negritude" and similar mystical notions of black "soul-brotherhood" come dangerously close to the basic model of fascist ideology. It gives you an idea of how provocative Patterson is willing to be that, as a black sociologist, he consistently brings his criticisms so close to home...
Anatoli Vasilievich Dmitriev, a Soviet political sociologist, may speak in a seminar at Harvard during his one-month stay in the United States, a coordinator for the International Research Exchange Board (IREX) said yesterday...
...educational training to live in these two worlds. If they find Africa almost impossible, they will definitely make it in the western world. Some of these intellectuals see the African question as unsolvable, but they have never reached for the impossible, reminiscent of the words of a German sociologist, Max Weber, who asserts that...