Word: sociologists
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Streetcorner Research got its name from its first location: a store front at the corner of Bow Street and Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. On the staff, in addition to Slack and Schwitzgebel, were Stanley Dubinsky, a social work student; David Kantor, a Harvard sociologist; and Father Jaun Cortes, a Jesuit priest and Clinical psychologist...
Apart from this unattractive prospect. Sociologist Berger insists that the ministry cannot possibly be relevant without a theological understanding of its role in the world. Christianity must penetrate "the consciousness of this age"; as he puts it, "the theologian is an indispensable participant in this task of Christian intellectual penetration...
What's wrong with U.S. theological seminaries and divinity schools? Plenty, charges Hartford Seminary Foundation's Peter Berger, 33, a Lutheran sociologist whose vivid attacks (The Precarious Vision, The Noise of Solemn Assemblies) on the organizational church are fast earning him a reputation as a kind of Connecticut Kierkegaard. Writing in the July issue of Theology Today, Berger argues that the seminaries have become so concerned with trying to provide for the short-term institutional needs of the church that they are in danger of forgetting what a Protestant minister really ought to be: first and foremost...
HOWARD UNIVERSITY Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish sociologist, whose An American Dilemma was cited in the 1954 Supreme Court school-desegregation decision LL.D...
...class. Today only one man in three has the same social status his father held; only one in every four sons of unskilled workers is himself unskilled. "Many manual workers," reports a Labor Ministry survey -on spending, "have habits and tastes which formerly were regarded as middle class." But Sociologist Ferdynand Zweig, researching a study of "The Worker in an Affluent Society," found that the new-habits and tastes are largely material. The working class is spending little of its new income on intellectual self-improvement. About 60% neither knew nor cared about Karl Marx (who had direly predicted their...