Voices of Concern

Alvin Gouldner, 49, Washington University, St. Louis: "One way of thinking about the new sociology is that we don't want to be the market researchers for the welfare state. We don't want to be on the pacification teams in Viet Nam. We simply don't find contemporary society a lovable creature, and we want to help transform it."

Kenneth Winetrout, 57, American International College, Springfield, Mass.: "In our present-day world, it is not enough to be scholarly; one must also be concerned enough to shout. It is not enough to understand the world; one must also seek to change it."

Herbert J. Gans, 42, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.: "Most students are not committed radicals. They are more concerned with having courses on the relevant questions, and finding their own answers. I think what they're asking for is relevance, and that we can find answers to some of the issues of our basic society." 7". B. Bottomore, 49, University of Sussex, England: "Today, critics of society are very active and verbal and this has given an impetus to the new sociologists. They have an audience. In the early fifties they had no one to write for."

Charles W. Wheatley, 34, Princeton, Princeton, N.J.: "For me, the students are the only really viable political entity . . . Older faculty are ineducable when it comes to the revolution, the movement. They won't be shot, you know; a little island will be found for them some place."

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