Word: sociologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the time we are young to buy, to go into debt, to get the Frigidaire, the car. Life for a Frigidaire? This is the life our parents want us to live. For us, the only value is man, the only thing that matters is man." Sociologist Alain Touraine, 42, agrees that France "has become a society of things, not of ideas. The students reject not only the things but the authorities who direct that society-they do not believe in institutions like the university...
...graduate as a source of executive talent, much prefers youths with technical training. Thus some of the nation's brightest, most thoughtful youths are most affected by the unpredictability of the forces for change. "France is in the midst of a transition from old ways to new," notes Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, "and many of the young people don't know where they are going. This creates tension...
...N.R.A. points out that autos kill three times as many Americans as guns each year, and asks archly: "Why not ban them?" (One reply: Autos are registered. Why not guns?) N.R.A. officials also cite a study made by University of Pennsylvania Sociologist Marvin E. Wolfgang of 588 criminal homicides committed in Philadelphia over a four-year period. He concluded that, given "sufficient motivation or provocation," it makes no difference whether a gun is handy?if not, the offender "would use a knife to stab or fists to beat his victim to death." But Wolfgang has since modified that view...
...doubt the antigun advocates, too, sometimes go beyond what is reasonable or at least practical. Some urge complete confiscation. "I see no reason," says University of Chicago Sociologist Morris Janowitz, "why anyone in a democracy should own a weapon...
...such as history, economics or political science, then examine the approaches of several disciplines toward Negro culture in a junior-year seminar, finish with a senior-year colloquium and a major paper. The leader in promoting black culture as a separate discipline, however, has been San Francisco State. Negro Sociologist Nathan Hare, who has a doctorate from the University of Chicago, supervises 15 courses, ranging from Avant-Garde Jazz to Ancient Black History and Swahili, but considers both the range and volume inadequate...