COMMENTS ON A POINT IN GWYNNE NETTLER'S "TOWARD A DEFINITION OF THE SOCILOGIST".

PREJUDICES; DISCRIMINATION (Sociology); ANTISEMITISM; RACISM; SOCIOLOGISTS; SOCIOLOGY

This article is the author's reply to the paper "Toward a Definition of the Sociologist," by sociologist Gwynne Nettler. The author says that if a sociologist says in regard to a given situation that a qualified Negro teacher should not be employed to teach a mixed or a white college class because the mores wouldn't stand for it, although the mores were conspicuously absent in several comparable situations, it would appear that this sociologist uses the concept in some sort of connivance with his own, not necessarily anti-Negro but probably somehow pro-status-quo, bias which calls for an investigation. And so long as such investigation is missing, this case may serve, at least, as an illustration. It may further be suspected that such and similar uses present a logical-psychological counterpart to the tendency on the part of some African Americans to see the world sub specie of anti-Black prejudice, or to the inclination on the part of some Jews to suspect the universe of an anti-Semitic character, etc.