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Says Harvard Sociologist David Riesman: "Those schools reflect a backlash against rampant peer domination in junior high and high schools in the country as a whole." Parents of students who have transferred out of public high schools complain that their children were made fun of for wanting to study and for refusing to dance or take drugs. As Theologian Carl F.H. Henry, former editor of Christianity Today, puts it: "A reasonable case is no longer made' in the public schools for moral absolutes...
Rosovsky's decision to advance Skockpol's case effectively overturned the department's vote. An ad hoc committee met last week to consider recommending the 33-year-old sociologist for tenure. Ad hoc committees, a regular part of the tenure process, are composed of three or four scholars from outside the University, two tentired members of the Faculty outside the department, and, as ex-officio members, Bok and Rosovsky. Bok has final say, subject to approval by the Harvard Corporation, on all tenure appointments...
...host of other problems that show the University is still bound by the not-so-glorious burdens of its past. Affirmative action wins verbal praise from the University, but most of the women who go to the Faculty Club are still guests. Theda Skocpol, an award-winning sociologist, was turned down for tenure here; she filed a grievance, a three-member panel heard her case, and then ruled that indeed there was evidence of gender discrimination. Others have suggested prejudice against junior Faculty and intellectual bias played parts in the denial of tenure. Now it's up to Harvard...
...Sociologist Louis Guttman, whose Institute of Applied Social Research has been monitoring Israeli morale since the 1967 war, finds the national mood to be periodically exasperated but basically resilient. In a poll early this year, only 13% of Israelis considered the nation's economic and political position to be good, but fully 76% were certain that they could cope nonetheless. What is striking, according to another social analyst, Rafael Gill, the director of Public Opinion Research of Israel, is the way the public has lost faith in the politicians and the political parties. Gill reports that most Israelis...
...trained for the complicated work done by oil-industry machinists. White-collar workers also face problems. Detroit's Wade Cook, 48, a former railroad employee with 16 years of management experience, has sent scores of resumes to the Sunbelt without result. The difficulty, explains University of Houston Sociologist William Simon, is that the Texas economy is highly technical at the upper end and menial at the lower end, without much in between. The newcomers, he says, "cannot articulate with our economy. A lot of them are obsolete people from an obsolete environment, with obsolete skills...