Word: sociologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brunette daughter is an attractive, serious-minded student of simple tastes who won a D.A.R. prize for academic and citizenship excellence in the ninth grade. Precisely because of her sobriety and wholesome appearance, almost any parents could visualize her as their own young daughter plunging into intermarriage. "This," Sociologist Gunnar Myrdal (An American Dilemma) said a few years ago, "is a kind of bug in the white man's brain-that the Ne gro is anxious to marry his daughter...
Chaplain Boyd attributes the growth of these cells to a feeling widespread among believers that to find true Christianity and meaningful social involvement they must go beyond traditional churches, which are controlled by "bish ops with price tags all over their bodies." Jesuit Sociologist Rocco Caporale of the University of California sees the underground church as a return to the personalized "mystery dimension" of early Christianity and a reaction to the massive, corporate impersonality of institutionalized parishes...
...Sociologist Caporale, who reports that similar underground churches are rising in Europe and Latin America, argues that a major weakness of the movement is its introverted quality: unless the cells maintain some connection with the official church, they may turn into inbred holiness clubs. Publisher Donald Thorman of the National Catholic Reporter, however, is convinced that the movement will not soon disappear, largely because so many clerics have become involved. "There have been innumerable unofficial movements within the church before," he says, "but they came and went rapidly because they lacked the unifying factor of a priesthood and a liturgy...
University of Michigan Sociologist John P. Robinson, 31, told the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco last week that a lengthy survey indicates that leisure time takes up about five hours a day, about the same portion of the day as in the 1930s, and that television now accounts for about a third...
Writing in the current issue of the Criminal Law Bulletin, University of Mississippi Sociologist Columbus B. Hopper reports that only 10% of Parchman's 822 unmarried prisoners resent the husbands' privilege. Having studied the system since 1959, Hopper claims that Parchman's unique visits have kept marriages intact, bolstered prison morale and reduced homosexuality-all in sharp contrast to other prisons, where discontent and riots are often attributed to sexual tensions. Hopper adds that Parchman is hardly progressive in any other way; as a prison farm, it simply has more space for informality than conventional prisons with...