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...severe family crisis. "She escaped her guilt and horror, but it had the effect of a psychological and social lobotomy. Where once she had been superbly inquisitive, she now could relate things only in terms of her religion ?but she had a focal point for all her energy." Sociologist Andrew Greeley calls Catholic Pentecostalism the "most vital movement in Catholicism right now," but warns that it could become "just pure emotion, even a form of hysteria." The Rev. George Peters of the United Presbyterian Church says of the Jesus People: "I see dangers. This biblical literalism. The kids quote...
Ignorance, lack of specialized training, discrimination and substandard wages are the reasons usually cited for the persistence of poverty in the affluent U.S. But Sociologist Herbert J. Gans of M.I.T. believes that there is a more subtle underlying cause for the substandard living conditions of millions of Americans. Poverty, Gans says, continues to exist because it performs useful functions for many members of society...
...VISTA wars were fought with leaks to the press-most dramatically, the release of part of a sociologist's report that some Administration officials interpreted as meaning that VISTA workers are "radicalized" by their volunteer experience. One Washington Republican concluded: "VISTA is just a federally financed hate-Nixon postgraduate school." In fact, Dr. David Gottlieb of Pennsylvania State University, who conducted the study, decided that most volunteers in VISTA found it an opportunity to work for change "within the System...
Some people have even found it necessary to leave the country to find medical care at prices they can afford. Dr. Martin Allwood, a Swedish-born sociologist who had spent 25 years of his life in the U.S., gave up on American medicine after a series of expensive examinations failed to diagnose his problem. Returning to the country of his birth, he spent another year having X rays and tests before exploratory surgery disclosed an unusually inaccessible cancer. Allwood found the treatment excellent and the costs low. Private medicine is still practiced in Sweden, but the government maintains an elaborate...
...widely assumed that more education leads to greater productivity. Not necessarily. In Education and Jobs: The Great Training Robbery, Sociologist Ivar Berg studied the performance of workers in the light of their education and concluded that schooling often leads to less productivity in work, not more. Nonetheless, rampant