Word: sociologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perils of this work were recently exemplified by the dilemma that faced California Sociologist Lewis Yablonsky, whose books on teen-age gang life in New York (The Violent Gang) and the Synanon cure for drug addiction (Synanon: The Tunnel Back) have been widely praised for telling it like it is. Yablonsky could tell it, because he lived with the people he studied-and his classroom presentation at San Fernando Valley State College this month earned him an "outstanding teacher" award over 9,000 of his colleagues in the California state colleges. Shortly before he won the award, however, Yablonsky...
...Eden. Quite a few strapping youngsters-suffer the little parents-are spectacularly discontented. Even more disturbing, too many youngsters are withdrawing rather than warring. While flower children go to pot, the new disease of alienation drives elite collegians into private exile. "Children are not fighting their parents," says Author-Sociologist Edgar Z. Friedenberg (The Vanishing Adolescent). "They're abandoning them...
...with new cars. Still others incredibly flee on vacation, leaving their kids to stage monster open-house parties. Then there are swinging parents, who even try LSD with the kids, another form of child abandonment that robs children of adult limits to test themselves against. As one hippie-watching sociologist puts it: "How can you rebel sexually against a mother who will be happy to fit you with a diaphragm...
...this difficult juncture, the omens are perhaps more favorable than otherwise. One of the more thought-provoking conclusions of a poll of the U.S. Negro community reported by Harvard Sociologist Gary Marx suggests that tolerance for the white man increases in proportion to Negro civil rights militance. The black to fear is the one who has not yet been exposed to the discipline of self-pride-the unawakened 75% Negro majority that lies outside the civil rights movement, and has felt almost none of its effects. This Negro has nothing to lose by venting his frustrations in violence...
Hoffmann's preference for a humanistic approach to political science harmonizes well with other facets of his personality. He seems genuinely excited by fellow scholars, Harvard undergraduates, and his friends, such as Bundy, despite his stance on the war, and French sociologist Raymond Aron ("the two most brilliant men I know"). He likes music, though he can't make any. "I don't see why I should play an instrument badly when I can listen to someone else do it well, so I have a very good record collection...