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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answers, according to this sociologist, is to make leisure more meaningful for the increasing number of people with time on their hands. To do this we "need changes in the whole society: in its work, its political forms and its cultural styles." Such talk is no less revolutionary than what Goodman wants--utopian reforms. Here Riesman's thinking encounters difficulties. Any scheme for utopia requires a comprehensive view of man; otherwise large-scale social reform has no coherence or legitimacy. But, unlike the 18th century ideologues, Riesman has no driving metaphysic; his approach is "one of seeing rather than doing...

Author: By Grant M. Ujifusa, | Title: Riesman As Social Critic | 2/20/1964 | See Source »

...woman sociologist last night urged extensive intermarriage as the solution for most of the world's problems...

Author: By Ellen Lake, | Title: Sociologist Proposes Intermarriage As Solution for Problems of World | 2/19/1964 | See Source »

...Findings. Financed by a wide variety of sponsors, including General Electric and the Carnegie Corporation, Human Behavior is the massive work of two highly literate behavioral-scientists, University of Chicago Psychologist Gary Steiner and Sociologist Bernard Berelson, vice president of the Population Council. By sifting hundreds of case studies and experiments, Berelson and Steiner have produced 1,045 concise findings "for which there is some good amount of scientific evidence." Many only give a scientific stamp to "what everybody knows," but others make concrete what is generally only suspected, prove (or disprove) folklore, or substantiate the obvious with interesting evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavioral Sciences: What Everybody Knows--Or Do They? | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

...intercourse before marriage. Dr. Graham B. Blaine Jr., psychiatrist to the Harvard and Radcliffe Health Service, estimates that within the past 15 years the number of college boys who had intercourse before graduation rose from 50% to 60%, the number of college girls from 25% to 40%. A Purdue sociologist estimates that one out of six .brides is pregnant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morals: The Second Sexual Revolution | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

Girls Aren't Things. Still, by and large, campus sex is not casual. Boys look down on a "community chest," meaning a promiscuous girl. Sociologist David Riesman believes that, far more so than in the '20s, boys treat girls as persons rather than objects: "They sit down and really talk with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morals: The Second Sexual Revolution | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

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