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...campaign promises. Yet the nation has successfully weathered its severest constitutional crisis without producing oligarchy or chaos. The three-way division of powers, which has provoked more funeral orations than Julius Caesar, still functions. If the recent election showed evidence of apathy, it also provided examples of vigor. Harvard Sociologist Thomas Pettigrew sees "serious good news" in the massive gains that blacks made in Congress and state legislatures. Connecticut's Ella Grasso, the first woman to become Governor without benefit of her husband's coattails, is a symbol of the growing numbers of women who seek...
Bernardin's diligence and powers of conciliation will be sorely tested during his three years in national office. As two pessimistic reports to the bishops' conference last week indicated, the church is embattled both from within and without. One of the two appraisals came from Jesuit Sociologist John L. Thomas, who warned the bishops that today's technological society in the U.S. is "bereft of any convincing sense of ultimate purpose or rooted moral belief." Moreover, in the mobile U.S. society, Catholics have lost much of their comforting old ethnic solidarity. The changes in the church that...
University of Connecticut Sociologist Duane Denfeld, whose recent work focuses on psychological damage suffered by many swingers, suggests that the early, rosy reports on swinging may have owed something to many of the original researchers, who were missionary swingers themselves. Some areas, which got the fad late, still report increased activity. "In Atlanta," Sex Counselor Martin Rosenman says of his home town, "swinging is growing. Everywhere else, it's dying...
...dispute between radical social science faculty and their senior colleagues, which seemingly was resolved last year with the forced departure of economists Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis and sociologist Michael Useem, surfaced again last week with the release of the Board of Overseers' Visiting Committee report on the Economics Department...
Sociology, according to the radicals now in it, is a department that has limited ties to corporations and the government, and this is partly a result of the discipline's lack of a large majority consensus among sociologists on what sociology is. Skocpol says, "If you go into opposition in economics, you are disputing a generally undisputed science. But in sociology, there is no absolutely dominant body of doctrine, like neo-classical economics." To be a Marxist sociologist, Skocpol and Taylor say, is to uphold one critical theory--even if it is the most critical theory--among many others...