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...Englishman is tolerant of everything, including intolerance," says a British sociologist. Only up to a point. Last week Britain's Parliament was cracking down on the intolerance that native Britons practice daily against the swelling nonwhite minorities in their midst. Passed in the House of Commons by a vote of 261 to 249 was the second reading of a bill to outlaw discrimination "on the grounds of color, race, or ethnic or national origins" in hotels, restaurants, pubs, theaters, public housing and other places of public accommodation (though not in employment or private housing). Maximum penalty would...
Besieged by Noise. Some prophets however, see no near-future Utopia brought to reality by Early Bird and its progeny. "I doubt if more food will be grown in India," says RAND Corp Sociologist Joseph Goldsen, "even if every village gets a television set with lecturers teaching new agricultural techniques every hour. It takes generations to change customs and traditions. Only a few years ago, we used to pipe-dream about a TV-satellite system that was ten to 20 years away. It doesn't seem that far off any more, but what will it be used to transmit...
Rallying public opinion behind the anti-underpass cause is an exercise in what Bernays refers to as "the engineering of consent." In order to do this successfully in a democracy, Bernays explains, one must view society as a sociologist views...
...private investors committed $300 million. Despite ever-increasing bureaucratization, overall production in the Northeast climbed 6% in 1964 (v. a 3% decline for Brazil as a whole). Then, in the wake of the March 1964 revolution, the military decided that Leftist Furtado should be purged; he was replaced by Sociologist João Gonçalves de Souza...
Despite his reservations, Barth suggested that Americans have recently "accepted a collective responsibility to be our brothers' keepers to a degree never before manifested." University of Illinois Sociologist Joseph Gusfield was equally optimistic. Mass society may create indifference, he said, but with it come mass communications that spur moral responses. Gusfield's prize example: the recent descent on Selma of Americans from every corner of the country. Gusfield called that phenomenon "one of the greatest outpourings of mass Samaritanism in American history...