Word: sociologists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazines seldom propose drastic solutions that involve risk or hardship. Instead, they suggest that most problems can be solved by affection, tolerance, self-discipline-what Sociologist David Riesman calls the "newer, internal goals of happiness and peace of mind." Where their uptown sisters may lean on Norman Vincent Peale or Miltown, Wage-Town women have their magazines...
...sociologist maintained that if American pre-occupation with sex is not "stopped at the present stage, it is likely to call forth very serious consequences." He stressed that this is not his personal opinion, but that it is based on statistics, and cited advertising and television as examples of the manner in which sex is unduly publicized today...
...sociologist contended that modern religion, considered in terms of "high-pressure chain prayer" is "sham," and also cannot save mankind. The research center found that the moral changes in 73 people who were converted to Christianity by Billy Graham's "15-minute" method were extremely slight...
Died. Dr. Charles Spurgeon Johnson, 63, scholarly Negro sociologist, longtime (1928-46) head of social sciences at Nashville's Fisk University, who was named a UNESCO delegate in 1946, became Fisk's first Negro president the same year; of a heart attack; in Louisville. Dr. Johnson attacked race hatred calmly and analytically, summed up the segregation issue: "... a struggle between those who believe in democracy and those...
...Superintendent of School, who not only praised the ban, but that going steady "robs the youngster of one of the finer experiences of growing up--the friendship and companionship of as wide a circle of acquaintances of both sexes as possible." This argument was stated more succinctly by Harvard sociologist George C. Homans who said, "A man gets a much better education playing the field...