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...qualities of leadership. Contends George Reedy, the astute former press secretary to Lyndon Johnson: "The real issues in the campaign are spiritual rather than economic and social. The average American today is lost. He doesn't know what to believe, where to go, what to do." Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist calls these spiritual concerns collectively a "metaissue-an issue above issues. It involves tone, honesty, decency, truthfulness, morality, religion...
...changeable. Could it be (though this is not specifically said in the study) that this will have to include a return to the notion of good and evil, and therefore to the value of rules and discipline, and perhaps even to a faith in something outside man? Rutgers Sociologist Peter Berger suggests that what he calls the crisis of modernity requires some very new programs, a fresh start. Needed for this, he believes, is less concern for the abstraction of liberal ideology and a "renewal of respect for the concrete structures that give meaning to the life of the individual...
...claimed that a new study of his showed school desegregation often drove white children out of city schools, thus causing more segregation. The presumption was, of course, a familiar one in parlor debates on the subject. But it was major news that the highly respected University of Chicago sociologist seemed to have verified it. After all, ten years ago, at 39, Coleman had become a sort of godfather to busing when he released a study showing that disadvantaged children do better in schools with children from more privileged backgrounds...
...other researchers began doing their own investigations into the 19 large cities surveyed by Coleman. There had been desegregation in each of them, they discovered, but no court-ordered busing or forced integration of any kind during the 1968-70 period for which Coleman had collected his figures. The sociologist then conceded that his publicly stated opinions attacking busing had gone beyond the data he had collected...
...themes are traditional in print pornography, and the emphasis appears to be growing. Since 1968 Florida State University Sociologist Don Smith has been collecting and analyzing sex novels that are freely available on newsstands and drugstore racks in small-town America. Smith calls the current crop "basically a literature of power and domination, a literature of machismo." Rape scenes, he reports, now occur twice as often as they did in the 1968 books, but the woman almost always enjoys it. "The subtheme," he says, "is that the female really does want to be subjugated: no matter how much she says...