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...consistent pattern. Yes, but why can't Roper ask, "Well, which is it-do you get most of your news from TV or from the papers?" That would be forcing an answer and lead to impure results, says the Television Information Office, which hires Roper. Leo Bogart, a sociologist who heads the Newspaper Advertising Bureau, agrees that Roper measures the public's "perception" of where it gets the news, even if the public is wrong...
DIED. Erving Goffman, 60, unorthodox sociologist whose provocative books (The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life and Forms of Talk) developed his somewhat mordant theories of contemporary ritual, based upon the overlooked small print of daily life (gossip, gestures, even grunts), in such settings as mental asylums and advertising columns; of cancer; in Philadelphia...
There may have been other subtle factors at work. Liberal Jesuit Sociologist John Coleman suggests that the bishops almost instinctively grasped the arms race as a moral issue because they needed to restore their "credibility" with the laity, which had eroded because the hierarchy had no choice but to support Pope Paul's unpopular (and widely ignored) ban on birth control...
...Sociologist Robert Spiegelman, in the summer 1982 issue of the journal Social Policy, presented an article dealing in depth with how the media tend to minimize or ignore the seriousness of recent mass anti-militarism activities Spiegelman notes, for example, that press accounts of the nuclear freezer rally in New York last June focused on the trivial aspects of the gathering. "The mainstream broadcast media presented the huge rally in a relentlessly upbeat mood. Their unmodulated celebration of the rally's size and good behavior smothered and obliterated the urgency and terror that brought so many together...
Last week the Nobel panel opted for a middle ground between the bland and the flamboyant. It awarded the 1982 peace prize to two dedicated diplomats who are little known outside their circles of influence but who have campaigned long and hard for nuclear disarmament. The winners were Swedish Sociologist Alva Myrdal, 80, and Alfonso Garcia Robles, 71, a Mexican career diplomat who energetically sponsored the 1967 Treaty of Tlatelolco, which is intended to make Latin America the world's largest nuclear-free inhabited zone. Myrdal belongs to an even more elite circle. She is married to another Nobel...