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In this paper, Lewis Killian reflects on his experience confronting political realities when writing a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in response to its ruling on Brown versus the Board of Education, expressing concern that, despite his...
In this paper, Lewis Killian discusses his relation to Ralph Turner and their journey in writing a book in collective behavior and what went into building and publishing such a book in four editions.
Affirmative Action and Protective Discrimination: A Comparison of the United States and India and Comparative Approaches to Multi-Culturalism and Education in Britain
Lewis Killan's paper is based on a research seminar given at the University of London Institute of Education and details the purpose of this identification by comparing protective discrimination, affirmative action, Gandhi's opposition, ...
This speech is focused on the idea of a "Last Lecture" for professors and teachers and especially for the social scientist. Killian posits that the last lecture is something a social scientist is sensitive to and find most important in...
This paper questions how "the emergent governmental policy of collecting statistics based on descent as a means of identifying the "victims" in the society constitutes both a revival of race-thinking and a simplistic solution to the...
Paper written by Lewis Killian detailing analysis of specific referents of the terms "race" and "ethnicity" in the Supreme Court decisions affirming the constitutional use of the terms and in other government documents. Killian posits...
In this paper, Lewis Killian concludes that busing can best be understood as a political issue rather than in terms of an education effect when comparing the origin of school busing in Britain and the United States.
This paper addresses that, while white Americans accept the principle of racial equality, they resist efforts to implement it and what this means for the radical economic reforms needed to reduce the inequalities of class and race.
This paper re-examines the Civil Rights Movement in Tallahassee, Florida. In doing so, Lewis Killian concludes that, while organization and planning are key variables, social movement theory must take into account spontaneity and...
This paper discusses the evolution of what a "minority" is and the importance of the term as an element of language in domestic politics and international relations.
This paper presents a case study of a sociologist who played the part of participant and observer once admitted to a small inpatient psychiatric unit, therapeutic community, for recurrent depressive episodes. Various observations on...
In this paper Killian discusses "Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency" by Doug McAdam, critiquing McAdam's work as well as divulging in the positive data that came from it.
Draft of a paper written by Lewis Killian on the fallacy of approaching problems in race relations as those needed to be worked out by "men of goodwill". This fallacy is in that "while men of good will may be able to agree that there is...
The schedule of the 1980 United States census of population included the most extended and detailed series of questions concerning race, ethnicity, and descent used since the first enumeration in 1790. This paper discusses the purpose of...
"This paper serves as a comparative analysis of race relations reform in the United Kingdom and the United States and draws attention to possible counterproductive constraints upon such reform emanating from the organizational...
This speech analyzes the idea of ethnic diversity and the consciousness Americans have, even before there was a United States. There is a focus on "Indians", Blacks, and the "Vietnamese" who spoke at the event as well as the absence of...
This is a field report on desegregation in the south with a focus on the bus protests. It covers reactions to the Supreme Court decision, white attitudes towards desegregation, attitudes of the "negro population", analysis of the...
The topic of the United States "graves crisis in the field of civil liberties" is discussed here as "recent" decisions of the Supreme Court with regards to "freedom from compulsory religious observances, the right to counsel, freedom of...
This paper discusses the "Negro Revolutions" victory that happened when the President of the United States spoke to the Joint Session of the Congress to the people of the nation. At this point in time, the chief executive had drafted the...
This paper covers subjects of protective discrimination in India, gaps in knowledge in the United States of this discrimination, compensatory discrimination, the emergence of preferential treatment in the US, and the cost of affirmative...
The critical point of decision which was May 17, 1954 "Black Monday" is discussed in this paper. The "latent conflicts in significant themes in American culture, along with correlative conflicts in the motives of individual" which...
This publication describes the prospect of socialism, social movement structure, relationships, and types. It discusses specific social movements of the 18th and 19th centuries and the dynamics, interior structure, social factors, ...
This paper deliberates over the prevailing sociological perspective on mental hospitals is congruent with the caricature presented in the movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It details the view of mental illness as "residual...
This paper discusses the problems and pressures faced when it comes to methodological, conceptual, and political issues in regards to ethnicity and race data collection.
Paper on the belief in progress of "Negro-white relations". Covers topics of the mythology of race relations and the history which has brought about the idea of race relations as it was understood in the 1900s.
This paper was presented at the spring meeting of the Massachusetts Sociological Association in Boston. It covers the optimistic era sociology was born into and the seedings of pessimism which followed, as well as the goal of...
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