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...emphasize the Government's role in industrial policy, former White House Adviser Amitai Etzioni, a renowned sociologist, coined the word reindustrialization. That jawbreaker was given cachet by Syndicated Columnist Joseph Kraft and quickly became a favorite of Capitol Hill trendmakers...
Serious observers have long worried about the capacity of modern technical civilization to manipulate mass society partly by exposing and trivializing personal values that were once held secret and sacred. Twenty-six years ago, in fact, French Sociologist Jacques Ellul, in The Technological Society, forecast: "Our deepest instincts and our most secret passions will be analyzed, published, and exploited." The great is of secrets is, finally, more than amazing. It is also a bit ominous. -By Frank Trippett
...hearing in the city, a fact that has helped to ease some ugly situations. Still, there is a growing political apathy among New York's blacks-a feeling that nothing much changes in the ghettos no matter who runs the city government. Warns James Dumpson, a sociologist and assistant director of a private foundation working with the city's black neighborhoods: "When it's perceived that politics isn't serving the needs of the people, people tend to get disillusioned, cynical and despairing...
Pedagogues seeking a "science of education" are sometimes mere comic pinpricks in a teacher's side. For example, Ph.D. theses have been written on such topics as Service in the High School Cafeteria, Student Posture and Public School Plumbing. But many studies are hard on teacher morale. Sociologist James S. Coleman's celebrated 1966 survey of pupil achievement seemed glum news for teachers. That study argued that family background made almost all the difference, and that qualities of schools and teachers, good and bad, accounted "for only a small fraction of differences in pupil achievement." Later researchers, examining...
...long as recruitment rather than conscription remains the nation's preferred manner of filling its military ranks, the means?and the money?are going to have to be found to attract higher-quality enlistees and to retain them in sufficient numbers. Says Sociologist Janowitz: "The volunteer force in its expanded form is a unique institution in American history. We have never run a force like we have now." The challenge is to keep it running in a way that assures the nation's security...