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Peppering the Profs. "We've come into a new day," says Dr. Dan Dodson, chairman of N.Y.U.'s department of sociology and anthropology, while complaining that he sought seven new sociologists for his staff this year, but could snare only three because of the nationwide competition. "I fully expected to retire at $10,000 and live a fairly spartan life," beams a young Emory University sociologist who got 14 job offers-one at $18,000 a year-even though he was not seeking a change."I hardly know what to make of what's happened...
...Berkeley campus of the University of California-where some people would say a need has been demonstrated-has offered more than $25,000 a year to a few renowned sociologists, $20,000 to others less well known. The University of Southern California will pay $20,000 for a top professor, as will New York University. A big name can try for $25,000 at Harvard and probably get it. A sociologist at Tulane who only five years ago was drawing $10,000 now gets $21,000. And average pay is also rising. Median salary at the universities...
Moonlighting becomes them too. Publishers are peppering sociologists with offers. "I've heard it said that any sociology professor who can't double his salary with extracurricular jobs shouldn't be here," says Brandeis Sociology Chairman John R. Seeley. A sociologist can command $100 a day as a consultant to industry, up to $90 a day as adviser to such federal agencies as the National Institutes of Health, CIA, Census Bureau, State Department, Office of Economic Opportunity, and Office of Education. Sociologist David Riesman (The Lonely Crowd) left Chicago for Harvard in 1958, not for money...
Only God Knows God. While Altizer, Van Buren and Hamilton proclaim the death of God with prophetic force, Syracuse's Associate Professor Gabriel Vahanian, 38, is urbanely content to explain why the funeral is necessary. More conservative than the others, Vahanian is a sociologist of religion and a cultural historian with a primary interest in analyzing man's perception of God. He argues that God, if there is one, is known to man only in terms of man's own culture, and thus is basically an idol: "Theologically speaking, any concept of God can only...
...brings to its successive crusades against disease and, on occasion, to its foreign policy. The bureaucratic warriors are joined (and sometimes fought) by a whole new group of ideologues of poverty, notably including Michael Harrington, who "discovered" the new poverty in his 1963 book, The Other America, and sociologist Saul Alinsky, a tireless agitator and polemicist who travels from city to city advising the poor on how to organize for uplift. Underlying the anti-poverty campaign is the uniquely American belief-surprisingly often correct-that evangelism, money and organization can lick just about anything, including conditions that the world...