Word: sociologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that only 34% of the whites questioned would consider moving out if Negroes moved next door. Three years ago the figure was 45%. The fact is that few whites are likely to face the problem for years. "If there were open housing all over the nation tomorrow," says Chicago Sociologist Philip Hauser, "it would still take over a generation for the present housing pattern to change. The majority of Negroes don't want to live in white areas, don't want to face the hostility and can't afford higher-income housing...
...quoted Sociologist Paul Siegel: "The lights went out, and people were left to interact with each other." He got Sociologist Robert Hodge to say: "They didn't-have access to a major source of amusement-television. It's not unreasonable to assume that a lot of sex life went on." Added Mount Sinai Obstetrician Richard Hausknecht: "It's quite possible that there were a number of unplanned pregnancies." Said Dr. Christopher Tietze, research director of the National Committee on Maternal Health: "If it should be true, I would think it's partly because people may have...
Many lawyers and sociologists now question the quality of the FBI statistics. The critics point out that the FBI simply compiles data volunteered by police departments, many of which report crimes in different ways, including not reporting crimes in order to soothe the public. Although the FBI now collects statistics from 8,500 law- enforcement agencies representing about 94% of the U.S. population, Columbia University Sociologist Sophia Robison charges that the final FBI summaries are "not worth the paper they're writ...
University of Maryland Sociologist Peter Lejins has urged key reforms in the FBI reports, which he himself helps prepare. Auto thefts, he says, should be divided between cars actually stolen for resale by seasoned pros and those merely "borrowed" and then abandoned by joyriding youths. Not impressed, the FBI has rejected Lejins' idea on the ground that it might encourage joyriding. Lejins also questions the FBI's most dramatic statistic-that U.S. crime is "rising six times faster than the population." In fact, most crimes have always been committed by persons aged...
...Judas deer who led millions of Chinese women down a thousand-year trail of torture. The cruel custom of footbinding spread rapidly from court to commons, and continued unabated until Sun Yat-sen's revolution of 1911. After that, it disappeared so rapidly that no Western sociologist investigated a practice that exemplified a sadomasochistic cast of character and civilization and illustrated more drastically than the Ubangi lip what monstrous things a woman will do to make herself attractive...