Alfred McClung Lee

An Obituary for “Alienation”

In many intellectual circles, “alienation” has become the all-explaining catchword. Its popularity resembles those previously of “progress,” “evolution,” “trends,” and “identity.” It helps formula-peddling counselors rationalize their services. It becomes a device for convincing the individual that he alone or even working with others can do little about his social situation. Many assertions of “alienation” are simply and accurately translated as contentions that members of some “problem” group are at odds with the spokesmans value orientation or conception of societal legitimacy or ideas about appropriate social-action procedures. Some of the phenomena interpreted as “alienation” are more precisely seen in other lights that require greater knowledge of societal processes and of social history. Such terms as “relative isolation,” “relative deprivation,” and “marginality” explicitly suggest process rather than the static “alienated” category.

The Services of Clinical Sociology

How intimately and accurately can aspects of society be studied? How and for whom can and should social knowledge be applied? These crucial questions in social science bring into especially sharp focus frankness in discussion of clinical sociology. Is clinical sociology merely another name for applied sociology, for practical sociology, or sociological practice? Cannot a clinical sociologist work adequately for any client? Is not the use of &dquo;clinical&dquo; another example of scientism, of trying to give

Genesis and structure of society

Will reading habit influence your life? Many say yes. Reading genesis and structure of society is a good habit; you can develop this habit to be such interesting way. Yeah, reading habit will not only make you have any favourite activity. It will be one of guidance of your life. When reading has become a habit, you will not make it as disturbing activities or as boring activity. You can gain many benefits and importances of reading.

Can the Individual Protect Himself Against Propaganda Not in His Interest

concepts, the Commission endorsed the principle of having full-time members of the research council visit administrative centers of the South Pacific, in order to consult with local administrative and research specialists and discover local needs. Moreover, the Commission approved a regional analysis to be made of the preservation and transportation of food from areas of plenty to those of scarcity. In addition they authorized: (1) a review of the existing air and sea transport services as a means for attaining greater regional efficiency; (2) the interchange of epidemilogical information; (3) establishment of contact with those private and public agencies doing experimental work in agriculture or industry; (4) the preparation of a master file of those individuals and organizations interested in research in the South Pacific region; and (5) that the Research Council investigate the possibilities of improving tropical pasture land by the scientific selection of adaptive fodder grasses and measures for the control of weeds.

Random Notes On Radicalism in Sociology

Since sociology’s subject matter is people, and since all human relationships are constantly in flux, to speak of studying social relationships is to speak of studying social problems. All human interrelationships tend to be problematic. Sociology’s practitioners thus must. through the nature of their data, preoccupy themselves with existing and pressing human problems in context and with how those problems might be mitigated or resolved.

Attitudinal Multivalence in Relation to Culture and Personality

Attitudes often include conceptions of several contradictory trait models that deal with the same type of situation. Each trait model is typical of the over-all societal culture or of one or another group subculture. Individuals shift attitudes as they shift roles (and thus group contexts) in response to changes in situation. This is attitudinal multivalence. Its most significant aspect is sentiment multivalence, consequent to the internalization of more or less contradictory morals and mores. Both anthropologists and psychiatrists report considerable data explainable in terms of this multivalence, but they do not relate attitudes to social structure through culture and the subcultures.

Subversive Individuals of Minority Status

ance or kindly indifference toward the transplanted and unassimilated bits of foreign peoples in its midst. Here the Irish Republican Army has drilled, sold bonds, and planned a united and independent Eire. Here Zionists have worked and prayed for an independent Palestine. Here Czarists have reproduced some of the pageantry of Old Russia and have preached, raised money, and trained military leaders for the overthrow of the Soviet Union. Here Negroes have plotted an Africa for the Africans. Here we have had French, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese royalists, fascists, communists, and democrats. Only occasionally in peacetime, during economic depression or other disillusionment, have we shown marked intolerance for these curious doings.

Public Policies and Clinical Sociology

When a clinical sociologist starts to serve as a change or intervention agent in a public policy on behalf of an individual or organizational client, what are probable first steps to be taken? Specifics differ widely from case to case, but certain general concerns are fairly common, and they lead to a search for workable answers to these questions.

MAX HORN. The Intercollegiate Socialist Society, 1905-1921: Origins of the Modern Student Movement. Pp. xvi, 259. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1979.

are related, sometimes fatuously, to what is to come. &dquo;Did he come from a family with a tradition of a high level of political activity? Did he have forebears who achieved high political positions?&dquo; (p. 6) More bothersome and a flaw which will limit the book’s usefulness to all but other researchers is that little seems to have been left out. It is easy to pause in the long tour through this 650-page book and whisper a prayer of thanksgiving that Harry S. Truman kept no journal. If he had, this book would surely have dwelled on every day of his life for the author comments torturously

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chose instead to call himself a humanist because, in part, the mind-matter dichotomy of the materialists was not acceptable to him. 2. A problem which most who study Marxian dialectics ignore, including those who study Hegel, is that the only place where the system of dialectical thought is presented as a totality is in Hegel’s writing. Marx intended to write a Marxian dialectic but never got around to it. To think that the superficial and pedagogical writings on dialectic of Stalin and Mao are a substitute for studying Hegel is like thinking that a study of Wage Labor and Capital is an adequate substitute for studying Capital, with the added qualification that Wage Labor and Capital is at least faithful to the larger work while the philosophical writings of Stalin and Mao are not at all faithful to the Marxian dialectic. 3. It would be useful for those interested in Marxian