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...Protestant seminaries each spring the fledgling ministers come, eager for service and responsibility as God's men in the world. What happens then? An explicit answer came last week from Sociologist Samuel W. Blizzard Jr. of Pennsylvania State University, who gave the Greater Pittsburgh Ministerial Union a preliminary report on a 2½-year, $40,-000 survey, financed from the Russell Sage Foundation. Subject of the survey: the requirements of the modern ministry...
...Most ministers had what Sociologist Blizzard calls a "theological concept" of the church. Of these, 37% were "individualistic" ("The church is the place where an individual has a personal experience with God"), and 33% were "sacramental" ("The church is the mediator of God's grace"). Thirty percent held a "communal" view of the church ("We are a fellowship of believers...
...spend more time working with graduate students. While carrying one of the College's heaviest teaching loads, he constantly revises his old lectures and annually creates new courses. At the same time, he runs two informal graduate seminars each week. "Parsons has influenced more young men than any other sociologist," another professor believes. Comments upon his "disciples" rum from extreme comparisons to Marx's protagonists to hesitant admissions that "there is some element of religion in his followers." Once in a graduate school seminar at which Parsons was not present, a student critized a facet of his theorizing. An indignant...
...Parsons himself continually emphasizes, sociology is a frontier science, and sound appraisals of its pioneers must await further exploration. In the meantime, as one professor has declared, "No one can be a serious sociologist without being influenced by Talcott Parsons...
Francis Keppel, dean of the Graduate School of Education, announced yesterday that Neal Gross has been elevated to the rank of associate professor of Education. Since 1951 Gross has been Lecturer on Education and Sociology. A sociologist, he has studied problems related to education and technological diffusion...