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...matter what his race, creed or financial status, the American male under 5 ft. 8 in.-the height of the average American man-is a victim of discrimination. That is the conclusion of a Cleveland sociologist who has begun a personal crusade against a seldom mentioned form of prejudice that, like racism and sexism, is well established in U.S. society: heightism...
...pervasive is the American bias against the short man, Saul Feldman told a recent meeting of the American Sociological Association, that no one notices it-no one, that is, except the short man himself. To Sociologist Feldman of Case Western Reserve University, that point is well illustrated by the language. Instead of the neutral "What is your height?", the question is always the invidious "How tall are you?" Dishonest cashiers shortchange customers, and people who lack foresight are shortsighted...
Under such circumstances, it will take many years for the underdeveloped nations to stabilize their populations. But the odds are that they eventually will. As Stanford Sociologist Dudley Kirk puts it, "When people get a higher level of civilization, they realize they don't have to have eight children for three to survive. So they have fewer children and higher aspirations for them. This is universal...
...argument is indiscriminate-like a charge of buckshot. As Harvard Sociologist David Riesman observes: "Polemically, the term "is almost indefinitely extensible." It is also an elusive term with a sociological rather than a precise legal definition. Classically it refers to someone who is prosecuted or jailed-not for crimes in the ordinary sense of the word, but for harboring or expressing opinions antagonistic to an established order of government. There is no question that the U.S. has a long and frequently dishonorable history of persecuting its citizens who hold unpopular opinions. The record reaches back past the Joseph McCarthy...
...typically found between American blacks and whites. Herrnstein's study thus becomes the latest in a series of documents that have sparked a continuing dispute over racial differences. It follows the 1965 Moynihan report that attributed many problems of blacks to their matriarchal families; the 1966 study by sociologist James Coleman that seemed to eliminate poor schools as a cause of failures, leading educators to indict black home life instead; and the controversial 1969 paper in which Psychologist Arthur Jensen of the University of California at Berkeley suggested that there might be an innate intellectual inferiority in the Negro...