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...Black Questions for Whitey" [July 12]: Sociologist Dove, despite his color, is not as soul as he thinks he is. "C.C." may have stood for Country Circuit when the late Chuck Willis rendered his emasculated version of the famous blues, but Ma Rainey sang it as Easy [not C.C.] Rider Blues much earlier. Old blues singers applied the term easy rider to the guitar, which, because of its shoulder strap, "rode easy." Eventually, because of the instrument's feminine shape, easy rider came to mean a woman of easy virtue or a man who prospered by her entrepreneurial activities...
...than in Los Angeles, scene of the first cataclysmic riots of the '60s. No police chief is acting more vigorously or imaginatively to prevent new outbreaks than Los Angeles' Thomas Reddin, 52, who understands that the cop today must not only be a well-trained soldier but a "streetcorner sociologist." Says Reddin: "This is the year when the public will suddenly realize that the policeman has more to do with the state of our nation than any other man on the streets today...
MOST testmakers conceded that their own cultural backgrounds impose a distinct bias on their questions. Arguing that all U.S. employment and IQ tests reflect the culture of white, middle-class America, Negro Sociologist Adrian Dove, 33, a program analyst for the U.S. Budget Bureau, devised his own quiz. Wryly known as the "Soul Folk Chitlings Test," it is cast with a black, rather than a white, bias. Some of his 30 black imponderables prove extremely difficult for Whitey: 1) Whom did "Stagger Lee" kill (in the famous blues legend)? a) His mother, b) Frankie, c) Johnny, d) His girl friend...
...from the time we are young to buy, to go into debt, to get the Frigidaire, the car. Life for a Frigidaire? This is the life our parents want us to live. For us, the only value is man, the only thing that matters is man." Sociologist Alain Touraine, 42, agrees that France "has become a society of things, not of ideas. The students reject not only the things but the authorities who direct that society-they do not believe in institutions like the university...
...graduate as a source of executive talent, much prefers youths with technical training. Thus some of the nation's brightest, most thoughtful youths are most affected by the unpredictability of the forces for change. "France is in the midst of a transition from old ways to new," notes Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, "and many of the young people don't know where they are going. This creates tension...