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...fact, may have cost the American church more than $1 billion a year in contributions. That contention is part of a book by Andrew M. Greeley, William C. McCready and Kathleen McCourt: Catholic Schools in a Declining Church (Sheed & Ward, 483 pages; $15). In it Father Greeley, 48, a sociologist and acidulous Catholic columnist, declares that the birth control decree was "a shattering blow" to the loyalty of U.S. Catholics. He predicts that future scholars will adjudge it "one of the worst mistakes in the history of Catholic Christianity...
Citizens now have some measure of protection against unsolicited sex mail. Anyone who does not want such mail can notify postal authorities. Other kinds of restraint may be possible. Says University of Pennsylvania Sociologist Marvin E. Wolfgang: "There ought to be a way to limit pornography to those who want it." Still, Wolfgang, a member of the obscenity and pornography commission, opposes all obscenity laws, including those limiting public display of erotica. Others think such laws are reasonable. Father Morton Hill, a New York City Jesuit and veteran porn fighter, wants newsstands and drugstores to stop carrying porn. "There should...
...healthy lowering of class and economic barriers. Further, young people who have to wait to find work learn patience and open-mindedness. For one thing, the reflexive antipathy many students once felt toward the corporate world has vanished as they learn where the jobs are. Harvard Sociologist David Riesman thinks that underemployed graduates benefit from the enforced delay in making career choices. "Doing a lower-level job is not so bad," says he, "so long as it's well-paying enough to support a young person, and his record collection, in comfortable style...
...brides themselves are often the most unfortunate victims of the system. Says Margaret Cormack, an American sociologist who has made an extensive study of the dowry practice: "Indian women well know the humiliation of being exhibited to scouting parties like a prize heifer." Young wives are frequently mistreated by in-laws who later decide that the dowry was inadequate. In New Delhi alone last year, 89 women committed suicide because they could not stand the persecution of their husbands and in-laws who wanted additional dowry payments...
What bothered the company about the issue was an unflattering account of food industry merchandising and meat-labeling practices. The 5,000-word article, titled "RipOff at the Supermarket" and excerpted from a forthcoming book on the food industry by Pop-Sociologist John Keats (The Sheepskin Psychosis, The Insolent Chariots), does not mention Safeway specifically. While denying that the company actually banned the magazine, Safeway spokesmen do say, without going into specifics, that they found the article to be "anti-industry" in posture-as indeed it was. Although it contained some roundhouse generalities (the food industry operates in a "moral...