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...Argentinian sociologist will come to Harvard next semester and will become the fourth Latin American expert to join the Faculty this year...
...Harvard Sociologist (The Lonely Crowd) David Riesman had an explanation for man's new humanity to man. "When something like this happens," he said, "it's not our fault and we know it's not. So we say to ourselves, 'Fate is in charge,' and we enter into an era of good feeling. That's what happened Tuesday night...
Half a century ago, the death of mothers in childbirth was commonplace, as was the death of infants. Happily, both are a rarity today. California Sociologist Robert Fulton estimates that the average American family can go for 20 years without encountering death, which is more than ever confined to old people. And the old people are more than ever out of the way, many of them in playpen "Sunset Villages." Their absence, and the universality of the hospital, means that dying is done offstage; gone are the hushed house, the doctor's visits, the solemn faces, the deathbed scenes...
Dirty Hands. Why such new success for sociologists? "This is a complicated society with a lot of problems around, and there's a demand for people who are trying to understand them," explains Harvard Sociologist Talcott Parsons. Another reason, says Riesman, is that "the bloom of psychoanalysis is off"; people's problems often have to be related to conditions that lie beyond their family situations. The new drives against poverty, urban blight and crime have also increased the demand for sociologists who, as George Washington University Vice President Jack Brown says, "want to get out in the field...
...these reasons, student enrollment in sociology courses is rising rapidly at both undergraduate and graduate levels. "Students today want to get involved, to know the society they live in and to change it," explains Sociologist Paul Sheldon of Occidental College. They are asking for such courses as "The Modern City," "Social Pathology" and "Intercultural Relations." Harvard's survey course in sociology attracted 250 students last year; this year there are 325. Graduate student enrollment in sociology at U.S.C. has nearly doubled in the past two years. A few sociology departments even keep the names of their best students quiet...