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...Certainly discrimination of this type is more market at Harvard than at other Universities," she says, calling the low number of female Faculty members here and the recent denial of tenure to sociologist Theda Skocpol "particularly shocking...
...divine agenda may have been a rather painful loss of innocence-but innocence is always overrated anyway. A wiser nation may now begin to discover the vast creativity available in its possibilities. America must start experimenting again in its institutions, in its science, in its business. "Modern consciousness," in Sociologist Peter Berger's formula, "entails a movement from fate to choice." Armed with the knowledge that they are not fated to succeed, Americans can take up the complicated burden of choosing to succeed, of making their way creatively across the expanses of their possibilities. That venture could...
...Stockman, President Reagan's Budget Director, bought 30 copies and sent them to Administration aides. Says he: "It's the best thing written on economic growth in about 15 years." The book causing the stir is Wealth and Poverty (Basic Books; $16.95) by George Gilder, 41, a sociologist-turned-economist, who once wrote speeches for Nelson Rockefeller...
...That sociologist--Charles V. Willie, now professor of Education and Urban Studies--does not back away from any scraps. While Willie tries to avoid racial confrontations, his theories encompassing race relations and desegregation (his fields of expertise), are forthright. Asserting "Willie's Law," he says, "They will do it to you as long as you let them...
Willie leans forward in his office in Gutman Library, dodging the papers stacked a foot high on his desk. The 53-year-old sociologist shakes a finger to emphasize the most important lesson he has learned from observing the educational system--that the purpose of education is to develop people able to serve society, not people competing to attain standards of excellence, not people trying only to educate themselves, but people good enough to serve others...