Word: sociologists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many observers hold two related theories about U.S. religion: it is 1) booming, and 2) growing progressively more secular. Sociologist Seymour M. Lipset of the University of California disagrees. While church membership has clearly risen in recent years, Lipset reports in the Columbia University quarterly Forum, there is "no basic trend" in churchgoing: it was 41% of the adult population in an average week of 1939, only 39% in 1950, and 47% in 1957. Other statistics...
Senior author Theodore Caplow is a sociologist at the University of Minnesoto, while Reece J. McGee is from the University of Texas. Their book is an analysis of employment policy in major American universities. Their "data" consists of interviews with the department chairman and another colleague of every professor who voluntarily or involuntarily vacated a chair in any one of nine large universities between July 1954 and July 1956. Their conclusion is that universities seek employees who will enhance their national prestige, which means employees whose publications will receive national attention...
...other-directed statistician-turned-sociologist slipped in through the woodwork last night with a message between his two chiseled teeth: Albert Guerard's Politburo of Comp Lit 166 favorites was re-elected almost unanimously. Topping the psychological ten, two years running, was Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Other perennial repeats included Lord Jim, The Power and the Glory, Death in Venice, and The Immoralist. The Devils replaced The Plague, which was dropped from the course...
...clock: Sociologist and Henry Ford Professor David Riesman will dissect character and social structure in America in his course Social Sciences 136. Better get to Sanders early; the class is limited to 200 applying members
...Competition in academic life," says Riesman, a lawyer before he became a sociologist, "has an especially biting quality ... I would certainly warn anyone not to enter teaching if he plans to do so because he thinks the people in it are so nice.'' All Riesman's observations deal with professors in the humanities and the social sciences; quirkily, he remarks that "I retain what may be an erroneous view that the natural scientists are less contentious, more generous, and, except for physicists and geneticists, less intellectual."