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...Have labor-saving appliances and gadgets really freed women from household work? Joann Vanek, a sociologist at the University of Michigan, compared a series of group time-use studies conducted between 1926 and 1965, and concluded that the amount of time housewives spent on housework had remained virtually the same over 40 years, despite the introduction of many labor-saving devices during that period. Actually, Vanek found, the new appliances did save women time in specific routine tasks such as food preparation and laundry. But most of the women had apparently invented new kinds of housework to take...
...distinctions. But the massive effort by no means achieved the lofty goals. In his controversial new book, Inequality, Psychologist Christopher Jencks argues that education is only one of many factors-and by no means the most important -in bringing about social change. Sounding something like the antieducationists of old, Sociologist James Coleman recommends that students spend a part of their learning years in outside jobs. They would not be so segregated from the rest of society, and they would pick up experience of life that they miss in the classroom. Increasingly, colleges are offering students the opportunity to interrupt their...
That warning from Sociologist Daniel Patrick Moynihan seems to be more urgent now than when he wrote it as an adviser to President Johnson in 1965. Then, a rapidly expanding economy and vigorous Government efforts to curb racial discrimination helped an unprecedented proportion of U.S. blacks to start closing educational, occupational and economic gaps that separated them from whites. This progress recently seems to have been halted or even reversed. A disturbingly large number of blacks are in relatively worse positions than they were three years...
...With every decade, the length of schooling has increased, until a thoughtful person must ask whether society can conceive of no other way for youth to come into adulthood." So writes Sociologist James Coleman, chairman of the Panel on Youth of the President's Science Advisory Committee. Best known for his controversial 1966 study of minority schooling, Coleman, 47, is a longtime student of American youth. In a new report, he and his team of nine social scientists and educators recommend more work and less school for young Americans aged...
...sure, "prejudicial pretrial information does plant a seed," says Columbia University Sociologist Alice Padawer-Singer, who with fellow Sociologist Allen Barton recently studied nearly 500 jurors. But such difficulty can be overcome by searching out an open-minded jury, rather than an ignorant one, and by appropriate instructions from the judge. "A fair trial in a highly publicized case," Barton observes, "depends upon how well indoctrinated jurors are in their role of concentrating on the evidence and ignoring what they have heard outside." He recalls that in several Black Panther trials, jurors specifically said they considered only the evidence presented...