TIM E'S C H I L D R E N, Thomas J. Cottle. Boston: Little, Brown, 1971
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121 New EthnographiesTIM E'S C H I L D R E N, Thomas J. Cottle. Boston: Little, Brown, SAGE Publications, Inc.1972DOI: 10.1177/089124167200100110 This set of essays establishes Cottle as one of the most insightful and graceful craftsmen in the social sciences; they rank with the papers of Keniston, Riesman, and Bennett Berger. Not surprisingly, they manifest a similar perspective, an attempt to cast man as a sensible, sensual human, striving to make sense of a seemingly inchoate world. The modus operandi is the sociological version of the clinical life or case history. Using the experience of persons living with other persons the events of their daily lives, he is often able to transform the banalities of everyday life into the poetry of life's challenge. Beginning with the limited world of young boys in Boston, he shows their involvement in the impending space shot and how their imaginations are able, in a constrained way, to expand and grow as they recognize the world of possibilities open to others outside their worlds. This is Cottle's forte, almost lost in modem social science, the intertwining of a human subject's here and now as it is given and the massive forces that