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Neal Gross, a sociologist whose special interests are human relations problems in educational organizations and role theory, has been appointed Professor of Education. He came to Harvard in 1951 as lecturer in sociology and education, and has been an associate professor since 1956. As Director of Harvard's School Executive Studies, Dr. Gross published "Who Runs Our Schools?" last year...
...medical sociologist examines the activities and attitudes of doctors and patients within the framework of the societies in which these individuals participate," the society explained...
...perhaps 8,000,000) would find no jobs in an economy which, like the service veterans, had to reconvert to peacetime production. Afraid that federal subsidies would lure idle vets to campus, the University of Chicago's Robert M. Hutchins warned that vets would breed "educational hobo jungles." Sociologist Willard Waller, recalling that World War I Veterans Hitler and Mussolini first recruited veterans, wrote ominously: "Veterans have written many a bloody page of history, and those pages have stood forever as a record of their days of anger...
...most caustic, social satire is brewed from sweet reasonableness, and nothing could be more reasonable than the modest educational proposal that is the basis of a spoofing report from the 21st century by British Sociologist Michael Young. First premise of The Rise of the Meritocracy, 1870-2033, published in London, is merely this: every bright child, regardless of his parents' wealth or lack of it, should get the best education he is capable of absorbing. The proposition is hardly alarming, but by the book's end it has left a trail like a runaway milkwagon horse. Among...
...sociologist observed that, at 40, many women college graduates lack a sense of purpose in life, "unless they have been doing something to keep the pot boiling," preparing them for their return to a job. "After their families have grown up," he said, "women should be able to go back to full careers, and by that I don't just mean running teashops...