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American and Israeli behavioral scientists, who have long studied the kibbutzim as the most interesting and durable collectives ever established anywhere, believe that it can. "The trouble with 19th century communes," explains Israeli Sociologist Menachem Rosner, "was that their founders set a fixed pattern from which they did not want to move." By contrast, he says, the kibbutz can survive because its members are willing to change and to give old values new forms of expression...
...your story about Sociologist Andreski's charges [Sept. 25] that sociologists write more and more about less and less: I wish I'd said that-in print. I have said it often in class. It is to the credit of my professors that I was not booted out as a heretic...
Laura Z. Hobson, who prodded the public conscience with her 1947 novel about antiSemitism, Gentlemen's Agreement, complained that "you cannot be a bigot and be lovable." Lear replied that bigotry was most common and most insidious when it occurred in otherwise lovable people. Since then, Northwestern University Sociologist Charles Moskos has supported both the Bunkers and the deBunkers by arguing that Family's humor cuts two ways: "It is a cheap way for tolerant upper-middle-class liberals to escape their own prejudices while the bigots get their views reinforced." Lear concedes that the humorous treatment...
Andreski's prime example of the "nebulous verbosity" of social scientists is his fellow sociologist Talcott Parsons. For example, instead of saying simply that a developed brain, acquired skills and knowledge are needed for attaining human goals, Parsons writes...
...Sociologist William Kenkel ponders a science fiction proposition that the world may be so overcrowded 100 years from now that part of the population will have to hibernate for half of each year to reduce demands on resources. A color spread shows how the oft-decried weathering of classical statuary can actually improve its aesthetic impact. Poet-Novelist David Slavitt modernizes Virgil's Georgics in irreverent slang that gives it surprising contemporary relevance ("Okay, Maecenas, whatever you say; farming it is: hints for happier cornfields...