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...Catholics tend to educate their children less well, are less successful in business, according to Notre Dame Sociologist Dr. John J. Kane [TIME, Jan. 10] ? In only three fields is eminence achieved: religion, law and education. Would that America's progress were confined to the "creep" pace of religion, law and its observances and education...
...proposed in the bill, the Adult Authority would comprise a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a sociologist, a cultural anthropologist, an educator, a criminologist, and a lawyer or judge. It would determine correctional procedure and psychological and social treatment appropriate to each convict. In addition it would fix the length of sentence...
...these accomplishments, Kimpton realizes that the University of Chicago has lost much of the experimental glamour of the Hutchins era. Nor has he been able to replace such men as Physicist Enrico Fermi, who died last November, Psychologist Louis Thurstone and Sociologist Ernest Burgess, who retired, or Chemist Harrison Brown, Geologist F. J. Pettijohn and Physiologist Ralph Gerard, all of whom have gone elsewhere. Will Chicago ever again become as exciting a place as it used to be? The danger is, says Kimpton, "that you get so used to thinking in terms of retrenchment that you lose any imaginative flair...
...Loyola Sociologist Gordon C. Zahn cited, as an example of tension, Catholic groups which "singlehandedly force the cancellation of a 'B' or 'C' movie" and thereby give ammunition to those who think Catholicism has "adverse effects" on the U.S. Dr. John J. Kane, head of Notre Dame's sociology department, quoted some disturbing surveys. They show, he said, that U.S. Catholics tend to educate their children less well, are less successful in business than their Protestant and Jewish neighbors, and concentrate in fields that sacrifice prestige for security. A 1947 study of 10,063 high...
Died. Howard Washington Odum, 70, dean of Southern sociologists and one of the earliest and most influential voices raised against the South's triple problem of poverty, race and regionalism; in Chapel Hill, N.C. During his 34 years at the University of North Carolina, Georgia-born Sociologist Odum exhorted his fellow Southerners (in 200-odd books, articles and monographs) to abandon provincialism, utilize to the fullest their great resources of power, climate, soil and men. He preached his message in scholarly tomes (Southern Regions of the United States) and popular novels (Rainbow Round My Shoulder), lived...