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...Finance Ministry, opposed radical reform, and it was De Gaulle's personally run Finance Ministry?where tax forms are still laboriously filled out and stamped by hand?that kept control of France. "It has become a system governed by rules rather than objectives," says University of Nanterre Sociologist Alain Touraine...
Soviet officials encourage the new leisured masses to strive for kulturnost, or "cultivated behavior," which includes not only good manners and respect for learning but observance of the elementary rules of hygiene and sanitation as well. "Free time does not amount to idleness," warns Sociologist G. S. Petrosian. "It is the time devoted to study, the raising of [occupational] qualifications, self-education and self-development." As Pravda puts it with typical elephantine grace, "To care about the cultural recreation of the people is, above all, to ensure the conditions making it possible for the working people to spend their free...
Alien Culture. The Cultural Mafia has just begun to explore the behavioral characteristics of Negro life, but its ideas have already provoked a lively professional debate. Many sociologists and anthropologists argue that the supposed correlation between the American ghetto and the African village is tenuous at best. Black Sociologist James Elsberry, assistant director of New York's Center for Urban Education, contends that the black man's distinctive cultural patterns are due not so much to his African past but to his long alienation from the hostile white American society around...
...collars," she says. Norman Norell, perhaps because he is a designer, thinks that a woman actually has more sex appeal in trousers than in a dress. "Ripping off a woman's pants is sexier than ripping off a dress," he says. (And harder, it might be added.) But Sociologist-Author Charles Winick (The New People) probably comes closer to reflecting the majority masculine view. "Pants," he points out, "make extemporaneous sex more difficult." To say nothing about the fact that they also defeminize a shapely pair of legs...
...Sociologists Simon and Gagnon have stretched behaviorism to its absurd limits with the assertion that sexuality in man is a learned behavior pattern. It is a sad comment on the limiting influences of specialization in any field when a sociologist tries to refute such a basic biological tenet as evolution and natural selection. For behavior patterns and their modification possibilities through learning are fixed in the genes of species, consequently modified but not eradicated in individual development. Just as ethologists are beginning to find that man has more instinct-caused behavior than we thought, Simon and Gagnon rush...