Word: sociologist
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...future issues, the Behavior staff will be writing about almost everything that falls beneath that broad heading, from hippies' communes to animal studies that shed light on man's actions, from ESP to minorities and prejudice. As the major story in the first section, the editors present Sociologist Erving Goffman and his studies of the rules underlying behavior at the impromptu social events that he calls "gatherings." The story was written by Associate Editor John Koffend and edited by Senior Editor John T. Elson, both of whom this week launch a section that TIME intends...
...students of the famous sociologist--many of them lounging with him on the grass--say that he writes in Hebrew like Talcott Parsons writes in English. The American students remark that he even writes in English Parsonesquely. He is not universally loved: "When I came to Hebrew University I was looking for an excuse to get out of sociology, and professor Eisenstadt gave it to me," an Israeli philosophy student remarked. But for most of his students and for nearly all the academic world, Eisenstadt's work is exciting, brilliant, and extraordinarily relevant...
...many of his years of research and several of his published works have been on the huge problems of his own country, Israel, and he talks about his land like a sociologist, with greater objectivity and less overt passion than most Israelis, but also with a dash of warmth and a sense of wistfulness for the solutions to the problems he is describing...
...UNIVERSITIES. Sociologist Daniel Bell argued that today "the source of power comes from theoretical knowledge-and, as this is the case, the university will replace the corporation as the main source of innovation and direction. The university is the gatekeeper of society." If that is true, said Poland's Jan Kott, a professor of comparative literature, the U.S. university is not ready for the task. "After a year at Berkeley," he explained, "I think the university is a green zone of escape, not a real place in a real world. Two days after the takeover of Nanterre, De Gaulle...
...must adopt a new "double standard" of discrimination in favor of poor nations if it is to aid, rather than plunder, underdeveloped countries, Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal said last night...