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...Sociologist Marshall W. Meyer, a professor at the University of California at Riverside, has conducted a survey studying changes in political attitudes and career plans of Harvard-Radcliffe students over the last 5 years. Although the facts have not yet been released from his most recent poll, Meyer reported very little change between 1969 and 1972 in student attitudes toward political and administrative authority. In fact, the survey indicated a slight move toward the left. Paradoxically, there has been a simultaneous "pre-professional push." Applications to major universities' schools of law and medicine increased almost 50 per cent over...
...every industrialized society a common problem for leaders is the proliferation of demands upon them. Observes Harvard Sociologist Daniel Bell...
James Q. Wilson, 43. His Harvard title is Professor of Government, but Wilson is a criminologist, a sociologist and an urbanologist as well. During the '60s, he wrote a book a year on subjects like the civil rights movement, the war on poverty, campus unrest, police behavior and urban politics. Wilson, presently a consultant to the Drug Enforcement Administration, was born in Denver, graduated from California's University of Redlands and the University of Chicago, has taught at Harvard since 1961. Having just
That is the gist of a report in the Archives of Internal Medicine by three researchers-Drs. Arthur Simon of Duke University and Manning Feinleib of the National Heart and Lung Institute and Sociologist Angelo Alonzo of DePauw University. They base their conclusion on a year-long study of admissions to a single hospital in a suburb of Washington, D.C. During that period, 382 patients were brought to the hospital after complaining of symptoms of acute coronary disease; 138 of them were dead on arrival. By interviewing the surviving patients as well as the families of those who died...
...stance, that the book's use of per capita income as an index of economic growth is questionable when applied to a nonindustrial society. Economic Historian Murray Rothbard said, "Cliometrics doesn't work for the current economy, so how could it work on information from 1860?" Sociologist Orlando Patter son questioned some of the inferences that Fogel and Engerman draw from their statistics, such as the assumption that young black girls were prudish, not promiscuous, because the average age of black slave women on having a first child...