Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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THE public image of the sociologist -if there is a public image-is that of a fusty pedant who writes books that nobody understands. He is esoteric, obfuscatory, exclusive and elusive. The stereotype is not too far from reality. There are such men, and they preside jealously over an academic...
But the image is no longer adequate. Sociology is changing, perhaps more rapidly than any other discipline. The field is generating a highly visible, adventurous and activist new type of scholar who respects no scientific boundaries, least of all his own, and who rejects the traditionalist's antiseptic analyses...
Premeditated Effort. No one more vividly personifies the new practitioner than Irving Louis Horowitz, 40, a shaggy, disarmingly unprofessorial professor who lectures without a tie, lambastes most of his colleagues, and delivers endless sotto voce manifestos. "I'm making a conscious, premeditated effort to radicalize sociology," says Horowitz. In...
The youngest of Rutgers' four colleges, Livingston is itself a living experiment in the new sociology. Housed since last fall in what was once a U.S. Army barracks at deactivated Camp Kilmer (named for the arboreal poet), it attracts the young from the very constituency that Horowitz has staked...
In company with most of the new sociologists, Horowitz is bent on redefining the traditionally accepted symptoms of social deviance: divorce, homosexuality, crime and revolution. In a white-dominated society, for that matter, a man can be labeled deviant just because he is black. "But how do we know what...