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...have not heard an intellectually respectable defense of criminal rehabilitation James Q. Wilson says flatly. According to Criminologist Hans Mattick, "The prisons have become largely drama schools which force people to act as if they were rehabilitated along stereotyped conventions." Concludes Columbia Sociologist Robert Martinson after studying hundreds of programs for 20 years: "The prison which makes every effort at rehabilitation succeeds no better than the prison which leaves its inmates to rot." Succeeds, that is, in reducing the huge number of repeat offenders (70% of inmates). Improved behavior inside the walls turns out to be no indication of behavior...
...study of the changing attitudes of Americans toward work and time, by Sociologist Daniel Bell...
...York art world, especially in its present decay, is the easiest target a pop sociologist could ask for. Most of it is a wallow of egotism, social climbing and power brokerage, and the only thing that makes it tolerable is the occasional reward of experiencing a good work of art in all its richness, complexity and difficulty. Take the art from the art world, as Wolfe does, and the matrix becomes fit for caricature. Since Wolfe is unable to show any intelligent response to painting, caricature is what we get: a rehashed conspiracy theory...
Much of the thrust toward school desegregation was provided by the 1966 Coleman Report, which demonstrated statistically that black students learn more in integrated classrooms. Now the author of that report, University of Chicago Sociologist James S. Coleman, has completed another study on school integration that is likely to be as controversial-and perhaps as influential-as his first. Coleman's conclusion: "Programs of desegregation have acted to further separate blacks and whites rather than bring them together...
...convey the impression that most of Harvard's famous senior faculty take great pains to become personally involved with their students, it was more than just a little deceptive. But at least the picture told the truth about David Riesman. Aside from being a gifted and supremely imaginative sociologist. Riesman is singularly aware of the lives and trends that go on around him at this university. His heightened awareness and personal involvement alone would recommend his recently published essay about educational reform at Harvard; these qualities are precisely the ones that make the essay an appealing narrative...