Word: sociologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neither the call nor the clarification was forthcoming. What emerged was a profile of the dilemma of U.S. education. During three hours of morning talks, Coleman and Samuel S. Bowles, assistant professor of Economics, debated methodology to an uncomprehending audience. Then Preston Wilcox, Negro sociologist, delivered the ghettos' demand: put up or shut up; integrate or give blacks their schools, but do it now. On the one hand the experts quarreled. On the other the time bomb ticked in the ghettos...
...becoming suspicious, stilted and somber in their dealings with others. Today's less cruel but still existing repression, says Princeton Historian James Billington, "breeds exasperation and contempt more than terror." But if the Russian is somewhat more open now, he is still burdened by what University of Toronto Sociologist Lewis Feuer calls "socialist pessimism": the feeling that frustration, pain and deprivation are in the nature of things and that nothing can be done about them. This attitude, conditioned by the endless bureaucracy and the regimentation of life, may be partly responsible for Russia's declining birth rate...
...province and their discipline. Herman Kahn, 45, mathematician, physicist and author (On Thermonuclear War), is director of New York's Hudson Institute, a policy-research center that specializes in educated guesswork for such clients as the U.S. Air Force, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense. Sociologist Anthony Wiener, 36, is a member of Hudson's research staff. Their book, relentlessly technical and deliberately undramatic, is as far removed from Jules Vernean fantasy as sober analytical methodology can carry it. Kahn and Wiener cannot unlock the future's doors, but they know where to knock...
...profession of the fornicatrix has fallen upon seedy days. Rank amateurs have driven out the pros, giving the career field a bad name, and today's courtesans would rather provide grist for the sociologist's mill than salt for the Sunday supplements...
...outcome of course depends upon what all of us in the university do, and also what we refrain from doing. As a sociologist I suspect that all of us are trying to work out a new set of folkways and mores, a tacit code that will allow some room for what might be called a right of symbolic obstruction. By refraining from severe punitive sanctions the administration has taken some important if still limited steps in this direction. The last thing to be expected in such situations is that the main participants will say or even realize what they...