一位大学教授在他的社会学课堂上,让他的学生去巴尔迪摩贫民窟找到两百个男孩的记录,并且要对每个男孩的未来做出评估。学生们给每个孩子的评价都是:“这辈子根本没有机会翻身了。”二十五年后,另外一个社会学教授发现了这个早期做过的社会调查。于是他让自己的学生继续探究这个课题,看看当初那些小男孩现在到底怎么样了。 In his sociology class, a university professor asked his students to find two hundred boy records in the slums of Baltimore and to assess each boy’s future. The students give each child an evaluation: “There was no chance of a turnaround in my life.” Twenty-five years later, another sociology professor discovered this early social survey. So he let his students continue to explore the subject and see what happened to the little boys now.