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...sociologist maintained that if American pre-occupation with sex is not "stopped at the present stage, it is likely to call forth very serious consequences." He stressed that this is not his personal opinion, but that it is based on statistics, and cited advertising and television as examples of the manner in which sex is unduly publicized today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sorokin Attacks U.S. For Sexual Attitudes | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...sociologist contended that modern religion, considered in terms of "high-pressure chain prayer" is "sham," and also cannot save mankind. The research center found that the moral changes in 73 people who were converted to Christianity by Billy Graham's "15-minute" method were extremely slight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sorokin Claims 'Altruistic' Social Change Only Hope for Mankind | 12/12/1956 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Charles Spurgeon Johnson, 63, scholarly Negro sociologist, longtime (1928-46) head of social sciences at Nashville's Fisk University, who was named a UNESCO delegate in 1946, became Fisk's first Negro president the same year; of a heart attack; in Louisville. Dr. Johnson attacked race hatred calmly and analytically, summed up the segregation issue: "... a struggle between those who believe in democracy and those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 5, 1956 | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

...home don't give him a chance. My son was in a mixed school for a time. The average IQ of the Europeans in his class was 125, but the average of the class was only 85." Meanwhile, other adults have suggested revising present courses. Says Sociologist Dinah Feitel-sohn: "Our reading primers are just silly for Oriental children. The pictures show typical European families. The stories are frequently about life in East European villages or ghettos about which the Oriental has never heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Integration in Israel | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...Superintendent of School, who not only praised the ban, but that going steady "robs the youngster of one of the finer experiences of growing up--the friendship and companionship of as wide a circle of acquaintances of both sexes as possible." This argument was stated more succinctly by Harvard sociologist George C. Homans who said, "A man gets a much better education playing the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Going Steady? | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

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