Word: sociologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their own notions about society's most important ills. Now a new study contends that Rome's collapse was not due to self-satisfied apathy, gluttony, homosexuality, or any other social evil. In a speech at the Third International Congress of Human Genetics in Chicago last week, Sociologist Seabury Colum Gilfillan suggested that the Roman aristocracy died off in large part because of nothing more glamorous than simple lead poisoning...
...America." Somewhat gloomily, Thorman foresees the possibility of an era of what he calls "Uncatholicism, in which large numbers of the faithful will live their religious lives apart from official Catholicism-not fully leaving the church, but not really participating in its life either." Chicago's priest-sociologist, Father Andrew Greeley, co-author of a major study of religious attitudes in parochial schools (TIME, July 29), estimates that perhaps 10% of the nation's Catholic university students and seminarians share this attitude. "They are the brightest, probably even the most religious of the Catholics," he concludes. "They...
...Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas will open in Lawrence this month. It will handle 450 freshmen, who will share classes, housing and dormitory advisers. All freshmen are expected to be in such a college next year, all sophomores and freshmen a year later. Kansas Sociologist E. Jackson Baur hopes it will help K.U. students to avoid falling into the type he sees at most universities: "A collection of com peting strangers who are incapable of collaborating with one another in a pleasurable pursuit of scholarship...
Levenson makes it plain that, sociologist Big Think to the contrary, the best weapons to use against poverty are always homemade. "My environment was miserable," he says. "I was not. Poverty never succeeded in degrading our family. We were independently poor. Our watchword was a variant of the adage, 'Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.' We did curse the darkness quite a bit, but we also lit candles, fires, lamps-and we studied by all of them...
...with most of their present powers. It obviously takes more than one man to run a city as vast, diverse and complicated as Los Angeles. The qualities that give Los Angeles its vitality, in fact, also make it a hard city to tame. Most Americans, as Berkeley's Sociologist Nathan Glazer points out, would like, if given their choice, to create their own version of Los Angeles. They would like to duplicate the providential medley of sea, sun and sky, the combination of cultural and recreational advantages, the chance to seize opportunity in a mobile and open society...