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...sociologist does not consider that it is not affirmative action which is flawed, but rather the rationale provided by some of its supporters. The Jewish student and Beer are right in rejecting any notion that the current generation of white Americans have a responsibility to repay Black Americans for past injustices. Even those Americans whose forefathers were in the United States during Jim Crow and slavery cannot be held accountable for the discrimination of their ancestors, in which they played no part...
...community in the big cities, and there has been a palpable failure of the old classical strategies to produce results." Loury has become the most vocal member of what might be called the post-civil rights thinkers. The group also includes William Julius Wilson, 49, a University of Chicago sociologist whose insights into class differences within the black population have provoked considerable controversy; Robert Woodson, 48, head of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, which coordinates the work of community-based self-help groups; and Thomas Sowell, 55, an economist at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, who was the first...
...tomorrow: oil generated economic expansion and the integration of Mexican Americans into Texas society. What do and will those two factors mean to Texas? Michener gives an account not only of the issues but also of the people and emotions behind them with an elegance that would put a sociologist to shame...
...some deep, black, stony, and liberating way, my life, in my own eyes, began during that first year in Paris, when it was borne in on me that this laughter is universal and never can be stilled." It is here that he ceases to be a brilliant but amateur sociologist and becomes a philosopher...
Like a lot of college educators, Harry Edwards is disgusted and alarmed. Schools across the country have been shaken by yet another series of athletic scandals involving gambling on rigged games, alleged cocaine traffic among players, and recruiting payoffs. Underlying these recurrent problems, says Edwards, a sports sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, is a deeper issue: the colleges' neglect of the education of their athletes. "I've known athletes . . . who are functional illiterates and have been here for four years," says Edwards, a former college basketball player and track star. "If this is going on at Berkeley, which...