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What this means is that it is much easier for a man to think of himself as a psychologist, a historian, a sociologist, a classicist, a specialist in Elizabethan drama than as someone who is engaged in liberal education. And he is more concerned in communicating his discipline to the students than in educating them. Obviously this is a large and general charge and there are exceptions. But since it is the discipline that has prestige, the professor is oriented generally to what is most characteristic of the discipline. This means the newest thinking in his specialty, the most abstract...
...they felt to be the stupidity and cruelty of the standing order?" American tradition and messianic Communism have more in common than would be conceded by either party, he argues. Both hold that "made economically secure and comfortable, life will automatically grow blessed" (in the words of distinguished U.S. Sociologist Paul Rosenfeld). Hence, the doublethinkers of the Thirties justified every crime of Stalinism in the name of a perfect future...
...plausibility to the Communist thesis that capitalism was in a state of "ever deepening" crisis. Some preferred to think it was a corpse already. One group called themselves "The Laughing Morticians." They included Alexander King, since become a TV chatterbox, satirist George Grosz, an exile from Nazi Germany, and Sociologist Gilbert Seldes, all of them eager to say the last rites over capitalism. The U.S.S.R., a distant and unverifiable protoutopia, brandished a blank check drawn on the future...
Velvet Swindle. The solidest and most serious entries in Crime and Criminals-juvenile delinquency, penology, prostitution, war crimes-exhibit a drab sociologist look and a stylistic prison pallor. But as a refresher course in big-name crime, the book often proves happily terse where there no longer can be much tension, yielding forgotten details into the bargain. Crippen, perhaps England's best-known wife murderer, was born in Michigan; Captain Kidd, most famous of pirates, probably was not a pirate at all but a legitimate privateer who got a bum rap from a British court. While the never-caught...
...year's most important single issue is summed up in James B. Conant's Slums and Suburbs (McGraw-Hill; $3.95), a sobering report on the growing gap between have and have-not schools, with special emphasis on the "social dynamite" building up in big-city Negro ghettos. Sociologist Patricia C. Sexton's Education and Income (Viking; $6), focusing specifically on the same problem in Detroit, argues persuasively that underprivilege equals undereducation and that low IQ often, and unfairly, reflects low income...