Word: sociologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...different, is that it is largely inner-directed and uncontrolled by adult doyens. The rock festival, an art form and social structure unique to the time, is a good example. "They are not mimicking something done in its purest form by adults," says one prominent U.S. sociologist. "They are doing their own thing. All this shows that there is a breakdown in the capacity of adult leaders to capture the young." Some other observers agree that the youth movement is a politics without a statesman, a religion without a messiah. "We don't need a leader," insists Janis Joplin...
These men are not the low-income deserters who seek a "poor man's divorce," says Sociologist Lenore Weitzman, a graduate student at Columbia University who is currently completing a study of missing people. Nor are they the determined "social suicides" -most of them also middle-class family men-who succeed in obliterating enough of their past to start fresh and evade detection. Instead, she says, they are like the people who attempt suicide but do not really want to die. Possessed by the feeling that they are trapped, they flee in an inchoate attempt to call attention...
...stands to reason that a doctor should show greater expertise than the average man in picking a doctor for himself. Not so, says Sociologist Herbert Bynder of the University of Colorado. Doctors like to think that they choose their own physicians on the basis of qualifications and competence, but in most cases they are deceiving themselves...
...academic days also often include informal talks with guest speakers. Some of this year's speakers have been statesman Averill Harriman, sociologist David Riesman '31, Far Eastern expert Edwin Reischauer and M.I.T. Linguistics professor Norm Chomsky...
Despite complaints, provocative and timely ideas broke through the verbal fog of Delos. Sociologist Robert Merton of Columbia suggested that the class structure in the West is undergoing a profound revolution as upper-middle-class and working-class life styles approach each other, and upper-middle-class youths reject their traditional aspirations. Harvard Political Scientist Karl Deutsch elaborated a theory that certain employers, such as sanitation departments, perpetuate poverty by exploiting low-paid labor. As he sees it, low-paid occupations ranging from domestic service to teaching may have to be subsidized. Jerome Monod, the French planner, also described...