Word: sociologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...honking traffic problems, endless building and demolition, civic scandals and sinister crimes is one that would tax and unnerve a Caesar. The proper mayor of the modern U.S. city is not merely a civil servant, a political boss and a ceremonial ribbon snipper; nowadays he must be a skilled sociologist, a knowledgeable planner, a first sergeant, a public relations expert and a television performer. For better or worse, he is the image of his city-and, to a remarkable degree, His Honor usually mirrors his city's personality...
Scheduled to speak at the next meeting is George W. Goethals, lecturer on Relations, to be followed by Kenneth , lecturer on Social Relations, Everett Hughes, sociologist at University, Dr. Preston K. psychiatrist to the University Services, and David Riesman, Ford II Professor of Social final symposium will round...
What this means is that it is much easier for a man to think of himself as a psychologist, a historian, a sociologist, a classicist, a specialist in Elizabethan drama than as someone who is engaged in liberal education. And he is more concerned in communicating his discipline to the students than in educating them. Obviously this is a large and general charge and there are exceptions. But since it is the discipline that has prestige, the professor is oriented generally to what is most characteristic of the discipline. This means the newest thinking in his specialty, the most abstract...
...they felt to be the stupidity and cruelty of the standing order?" American tradition and messianic Communism have more in common than would be conceded by either party, he argues. Both hold that "made economically secure and comfortable, life will automatically grow blessed" (in the words of distinguished U.S. Sociologist Paul Rosenfeld). Hence, the doublethinkers of the Thirties justified every crime of Stalinism in the name of a perfect future...
...plausibility to the Communist thesis that capitalism was in a state of "ever deepening" crisis. Some preferred to think it was a corpse already. One group called themselves "The Laughing Morticians." They included Alexander King, since become a TV chatterbox, satirist George Grosz, an exile from Nazi Germany, and Sociologist Gilbert Seldes, all of them eager to say the last rites over capitalism. The U.S.S.R., a distant and unverifiable protoutopia, brandished a blank check drawn on the future...