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...prosecution of offenders. Whereas Clark had felt that his department should be concerned as much with social justice as with law enforcement, Mitchell took a narrower view of his job -simply as a lawyer for the Government. Clark was dismissed by Mitchell's deputy, Richard Kleindienst, as "a sociologist, not an aggressive prosecutor." Said Kleindienst condescendingly: "He would have been better...
...favorite choices to represent big business. Walter Reuther and George Meany speak for labor, Notre Dame's president, the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, for Roman Catholics and Whitney Young Jr. and Roy Wilkins for Negroes -although not necessarily for militant ones. The process of forming a commission reminds Sociologist Daniel Bell of a Communist front group. Though the purposes are clearly different, both bodies try to achieve luster by seeking "big-name" representatives of various groups: women, blacks, Catholics, Jews. "If you find a black woman," says Bell, "you've hit a home run." Unlike Communist front groups, however...
...Filipino war dead. In the interval, the exasperated Filipinos put up their own memorial. Even when a commission issues a persuasive report, it is often ignored. Numerous Government task forces have come to the conclusion that Negro ghettos must receive more substantial federal aid. Yet, says Sociologist Kenneth Clark, it is like "the same moving picture reshown over and over again, the same analysis, the same recommendations and the same inaction...
...company with most of the new sociologists, Horowitz is bent on redefining the traditionally accepted symptoms of social deviance: divorce, homosexuality, crime and revolution. In a white-dominated society, for that matter, a man can be labeled deviant just because he is black. "But how do we know what is and is not deviant?" asks Horowitz. "When 41% of all marriages end in divorce, for example, must we still regard divorce as a social problem?" Instead of asking the question, "What went wrong with the marriage?" he suggests, the sociologist should ask: "What's wrong with the institution...
...Stasis but Change. This approach owes much to the late C. Wright Mills, the contentious Columbia University sociologist who died at 46 in 1962. Mills hurled his books like Molotov cocktails at the sociological myths of the time: that order prevailed, that the national institutions evolved by civilized societies remain forever faithful to their designers. An impetuous and often outrageous writer, Mills dismissed the classic image of American democracy as a "fairy tale...