Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Not Stasis but Change. This approach owes much to the late C. Wright Mills, the contentious Columbia University sociologist who died at 46 in 1962. Mills hurled his books like Molotov cocktails at the sociological myths of the time: that order prevailed, that the national institutions evolved by civilized societies...
That harsh judgment is being rendered with growing vehemence by the radical new sociologists. It is also the burden of recent reports by three separate panels of more traditional social scientists who have made their own appraisals of how the so-called "soft" sciences are-and are not-put to...
∙ Further development of raw social statistics and "social indicators." These indexes would parallel economic yardsticks, measuring such qualities of American life as the amount of opportunity and the learning produced by education. They would encourage sound research, and provide gauges of how well Government policies are working.
∙ Ten graduate schools devoted to applied behavioral science, perhaps similar to the schools of engineering, medicine, and business administration that currently apply pure research in physics, biology and economics.
∙ More social scientists on the staff of such key Government science-policy bodies as the President's Science Advisory Committee (it now has one psychologist).