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...brunette daughter is an attractive, serious-minded student of simple tastes who won a D.A.R. prize for academic and citizenship excellence in the ninth grade. Precisely because of her sobriety and wholesome appearance, almost any parents could visualize her as their own young daughter plunging into intermarriage. "This," Sociologist Gunnar Myrdal (An American Dilemma) said a few years ago, "is a kind of bug in the white man's brain-that the Ne gro is anxious to marry his daughter...
University of Michigan Sociologist John P. Robinson, 31, told the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco last week that a lengthy survey indicates that leisure time takes up about five hours a day, about the same portion of the day as in the 1930s, and that television now accounts for about a third...
Writing in the current issue of the Criminal Law Bulletin, University of Mississippi Sociologist Columbus B. Hopper reports that only 10% of Parchman's 822 unmarried prisoners resent the husbands' privilege. Having studied the system since 1959, Hopper claims that Parchman's unique visits have kept marriages intact, bolstered prison morale and reduced homosexuality-all in sharp contrast to other prisons, where discontent and riots are often attributed to sexual tensions. Hopper adds that Parchman is hardly progressive in any other way; as a prison farm, it simply has more space for informality than conventional prisons with...
...Huyse, a sociologist from Belgium and apparently the only non-socialist to participate in the panel, said the Belgian socialist party was plagued by the persistence of an out-dated anti-clericalinsm, and some anti-intellectualism...
...otherwise give. Says Lester Mc-Kinney, Washington head of S.N.C.C.: "In the minds of the people, history has proved that any meaningful social change has come through a bloody revolution." Many Negro leaders point to the violent tactics of the labor movement in gaining its ends. Even Negro Sociologist Kenneth Clark, no advocate of black power, calls violence "the cutting edge of justice." Social change for Negroes is moving faster than at any time in 100 years; for that very reason, Negroes were able to decide that things were still moving too slowly. The riots, as the President...