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...their most serious are beginning to show up in Italy. There a class of "intellectual unemployed" is growing -a group of university-trained youths determined not to work until positions they deem worthy for themselves open up. It is a new phenomenon. It did not exist, says Catania University Sociologist Francesco Alberoni, "when people did not have such expectations and worried about earning enough to eat with whatever job they could...
Warfield's thoughts echo those of many sociologists, who note that sports -and entertainment-have traditionally been used by minorities to fight their way out of the ghettos and into the mainstream of American society. In their turn, Irish, Jewish and Italian athletes and entertainers fought, ran, sang and joked their way into a society previously closed to them. The same journey is now being undertaken by blacks. Ironically, the very success of black sports stars has served to focus aspirations in the black community on athletics, a trend that social scientists-as well as thoughtful black athletes-feel...
University of California Sociologist Harry Edwards, the theorist and leader of the black athletic revolt that culminated in open protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, emphasizes blacks' limited access to other careers and describes the process that follows. He told TIME Correspondent Edward J. Boyer: "With the channeling of black males disproportionately into sports, the outcome is the same as it would be at Berkeley if we taught and studied nothing but English. Suppose that everyone who got here arrived as a result of some ruthless recruitment process where everyone who couldn't write well was eliminated...
Blacks are particularly bitter about the lack of black quarterbacks in the N.F.L. Says Sociologist Edwards: "It's very interesting that a white man can be a quarterback regardless of what his intellectual reputation is. A black-I don't care what his intellectual reputation is-cannot be a quarterback...
Died. Will Herberg, 75, leading Judaic scholar and sociologist; of heart disease; in Chatham, N.J. Herberg was a professor of philosophy and Jewish studies at New Jersey's Drew University. In his 1955 study Protestant-Catholic -Jew, an innovative interpretation of the role of religion in America that is still widely used in college sociology courses, he noted a religious revival in the U.S. but warned that the major faiths had become secularized, that "believing" was now simply a way of "belonging" in society...