How was the Coleman report received?
CHRISTOPHER JENCKS: I would say there was much less personal attack on Coleman than there had been on Moynihan. Moynihan was attacked as a racist and all kinds of things, which I think were quite unjustified. Coleman’s report was controversial, but there wasn’t the same kind of personalizing of it. And one result was that when Moynihan brought out his report the attacks on him deterred any other social scientists from doing much further research in this area. The whole field really just dropped out of existence for 20 years. In the case of Coleman, social scientists rushed into this field and an immense amount of subsequent research was done trying to figure out whether he was right or wrong, or where he was right or wrong, and whether he had used the right methods and all those kinds of things. So, he founded an industry, whereas Moynihan’s critics put the industry in the deep freeze for 20 years by the character of the attacks on him. QUESTION: What effect did the Moynihan Report, th
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