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...sociologists, demographers and economists agree that a stable population is necessarily desirable. Some worry about the social and cultural implications of a markedly older population. By the year 2020 there will be almost twice as many people over 65 (43 million) as there are today, exerting immense new pressures on the Social Security, pension and Medicare systems. To Columbia University Sociologist Amitai Etzioni, "ZPG spells a decadent society, a la France in the '30s, a la Berlin in the early '30s. This means a less innovative society, a society in which fewer people will have to attend, care...
Among economists, there was inevitable disagreement over Carter's program to stimulate the economy (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset also found that Carter's "whole folksy approach doesn't send me, but it's not designed to, and does apparently send the average guy. The question is: How long is it before the average guy starts thinking he's being manipulated?" Yet so far, as Dartmouth Government Professor Laurence I. Radway put it, "turning down the heat and doing away with imperial frills" has made "Joe Sixpack satisfied and pleased with Carter...
...Howard Sociologist Clifton Jones thought that Roots had a psychological impact second only to the black-is-beautiful movement of the '60s. Said he: "To see the spirit with which their much-maligned ancestors survived slavery is a great corrective to any lingering inferiority that blacks feel." This memory was shared with whites. Said Allen Counter, a black biologist at Harvard: "It sounded like us, it looked like us, it was us. We've always wanted whites to understand how our backgrounds are different from theirs. Now they should understand a little better where we are coming from...
Abroad consensus seemed to be emerging that Roots would spur black identity, and hence black pride, and eventually pay important dividends. Said Columbia Sociologist Francis lanni: "The civil rights movement seemed to be stopping for a breather. This may be a significant turning point." Said Anthony Browne, an assistant vice chancellor at the University of California at Berkeley: "Roots sensitized a lot of people to the black situation...
...Blacks as Devastated Victims. This view predominated from the late '40s through the Kennedy Administration. Historian Stanley Elkins, building on black Sociologist E. Franklin Frazier's work in the 1930s, detailed in Slavery (1959) a view that whites had done to blacks what the Nazis did to the Jews. Blacks were-and are-acted upon; they do not themselves act, because their culture was broken by slavery and its racist aftermath. The view awakened liberal guilt and paralleled the rise of the white civil rights movement. The Moynihan report described the devastation of black family life and asked...