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Quite a few of these American males are suffering from what Sociologist Leon Bramson calls the "Charley Gray syndrome," after the hero of John Marquand's novel Point of No Return. Having finally won his bank vice-presidency, Gray finds it meaningless-and far worse, he has no alternatives. As Sociologist Bramson sees it: "We have made it virtually impossible for people to try different kinds of careers in middle life without extraordinary risks." With depressing finality, Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald declared: "There are no second acts in American lives...
Died. Pitirim A. Sorokin, 79, eminent Russian-born sociologist and longtime (1931-1964) Harvard professor; in Winchester, Mass. Sorokin's theory of historical change, as laid down in his Social and Cultural Dynamics, centered on the distinction between "sensate" or materialistic values and "ideational" values based on faith and love. Western civilization, he felt, was far too sensate. Over the years, he wrote some 30 books (The Crisis of Our Age, Altruistic Love) aimed at curbing mankind's predatory, self-destructive instinct...
Sorokin's sociology books are studied and respected in almost every country of the world. Even in Russia his works are now available. A visiting colleague from the Soviet Union once told him that he was regarded in Russia as the most eminent non-Marxian sociologist in the world...
Despite a season of well-publicized student political protests both in the U.S. and abroad, the vast majority of university undergraduates are either apolitical or supporters of well-established parties. So concludes Harvard Sociologist and Political Scientist Seymour Martin Lipset, in a worldwide study of collegiate political views print ed in the latest issue of the intellectual quarterly Daedalus...
...that the Divinity School curriculum should reflect more of the church's concern with the eradication of social ills. By coincidence, Bok and Stendahl are good personal friends and have a common interest in things Swedish: Bok's wife is the daughter of Sweden's great sociologist, Gunnar Myrdal...