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2. Imagenes y realidades interamericanas (Interamerican Appearances and Realities)
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Mead, Robert G.
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Refers to cultural appearances and realities; revised and expanded version of a paper presented at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, August 6, 1973. (SK)
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- 1973
3. The Archeologists and Philologist at Providence.
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ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc. ,MEETINGS ,PHILOLOGY ,ARCHAEOLOGY ,CULTURE - Abstract
The article reports on the papers presented at the annual session of the American Philological Association and the Archeological Institute held on December 27-30 held in the U.S. President of the Philological Association, Professor Paul Shorey of the University of Chicago, delivered the usual annual address before the two societies in joint session. He gave a characteristically witty and profitable discussion of "Classical Philology and National Culture." The meetings of the Archaeological Institute, with its added attraction of lantern illustration of recent excavations, drew the larger attendance.
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- 1911
4. The League of American Writers.
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Brooks, Van Wyce
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AMERICAN authors ,CONFERENCES & conventions ,20TH century American literature ,CULTURE ,UNITED States civilization ,MANNERS & customs ,BOOKS ,PATRIOTISM in literature ,AMERICAN Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 ,AMERICAN revolutionary literature ,COLLECTIVISM (Political science) ,ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc. ,AMERICAN artists ,PROGRESSIVISM in literature - Abstract
Focuses on author's paper on American writers, which he presented before that Connecticut Writers' conference. View that if there is anything obvious it is that the American writers today are redramatizing the American tradition on all sides; Promotion of the study of science by President John Quincy Adams; Examples of books on the patriotism of the American Revolution; View that in order to have the collectivism, writers have to change the minds of people, and this is bound to be a long, slow process; Basis of the League of American Writers; Need for the unification of writers and artists; View that the League is the heir of the Old Progressive movement that won so many writers in years gone by; Example of the Communist writers; Appeal to writers to wake Americans.
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- 1939
5. LIFE COURSE IN MIDDLE AGE.
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Slotkin, J. S.
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MIDDLE age ,HUMAN life cycle ,AGE groups ,CULTURE ,SOCIAL structure - Abstract
One significant way of viewing the life of an individual is in relation to what has been termed his life course. This has two components— life goal and career. Life goals are those aims which have highest value, can be attained only after a relatively protracted series of activities, and become the person's reason for existence. The series of activities engaged in to achieve these goals constitutes a career. The life goals give purpose and meaning to one's life, the career directs and organizes life. relatively little scientific research has been undertaken on the third and fourth stages of middle age. The present paper deals with the results of a study of the life course in middle age. The middle age adjustments described in the paper are found in the U.S. and can be shown to depend upon the nature of American culture. Two cultural factors stand out. In the first place, the social organization is mobile so that more individuals aspire to life goals which will improve their class position. In such cases, the pursuit of the chosen life course involves a good deal of conscious effort, the individual is constantly aware of the great amount of time and energy he has invested in his career.
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- 1954
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6. From The New Republic Mail Bag.
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UNITED States politics & government, 1933-1945 ,CIVIL rights ,NEWSPAPERS ,BOOKS ,PUBLICATIONS ,FOREIGN aid (American) ,CULTURE - Abstract
Presents information on socio-political issues in the United States as reported by the journal. Report that a reader from New York City wishes to go on record with a protest against the inadequate coverage in Eastern papers of the La Follette civil-liberties hearings in California; Information on the attention drawn by the American Council on Public Affairs in Washington to its campaign in sponsoring, publishing and distributing scholarly books, studies and papers; Views of a reader on American aid to Finland; Report that the Committee for Cultural Freedom and the periodical "The North American Review" have put up a $150 prize for the best essay on "The Challenge to Cultural Freedom."
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- 1940
7. American "Culture" in Scandinavia.
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Gottschalk, Helmuth
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CULTURE ,INTELLECTUALS ,LIBERALS ,SCIENCE ,LITERATURE - Abstract
Even before the war Scandinavia's political sympathies went out mainly to the great Anglo-Saxon democracies, Great Britain and the United States. To be sure, Scandinavia's ties with German science, literature, and the arts were very strong, and this was true even of Denmark, despite bitter memories and recurrent fears of German aggression; but these ties were severed or withered away when cultural life in Nazi Germany degenerated and then disappeared. The Scandinavians have a closely knit and homogeneous culture, but their outlook is not insulated or provincial. The great majority of Scandinavian intellectuals are convinced liberals. And even Communist intellectuals will admit that they find the Western atmosphere, with its freedom of discussion and criticism, much more congenial than the stern puritan discipline of the Russians.
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- 1948
8. Rehabilitation of the Culturally Different: A Model of the individual in Cultural Change.
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Peterson, Ronald A.
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SOCIAL change ,CULTURE ,REHABILITATION ,SOCIAL services ,PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation - Abstract
Services of rehabilitation agencies and facilities tend to be structured to the needs of the larger American culture. It is important, however, to reconsider our social service programs in view of the needs of different cultural groups when providing services that will aid these individuals to move across cultural boundaries. An attempt is made in this paper to develop a model of the individual who undergoes such cultural transition. Such a model Should help define problems in service programs, assess the value of current service activities, and identify areas for developing new services that will aid the overall process of cultural transition. A model of behavior development is outlined, followed by a formulation of a model of the individual in cultural change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1967
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9. Cultural Changes in a Rural Wisconsin Ethnic Island.
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Hoffman, Oscar F.
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SOCIAL change ,CULTURAL history ,GEOGRAPHY ,INTERNAL migration ,CULTURE ,IMMIGRANTS ,RURAL sociology - Abstract
This paper describes cultural changes which have occurred since pioneer days in a rural, east Wisconsin German ethnic island. The social process is considered in terms of cultural history, geography, mobility, and enmeshment of the area in the dominant American culture. To determine the nature and degree of changes in ethnic values and attitudes, attention is focused on farming methods, family functions, and cultural conflict. The area has succeeded in making easy adjustments to the American situation and has remained a stable society largely for the following reasons: a traditional pattern of a diversified agriculture, coupled with a willingness to experiment and to conserve soil fertility, a climate and soil suited to this type of farming, acceptance of dairying to assure a cash income, a unique local outlet for excess farm produce, familism, settlement in a large compact group, and contact with an urban culture quite similar to its own. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1949
10. THE ROLE OF CONSTRUCTIVE TYPOLOGY IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS.
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McKinney, John C.
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CIVILIZATION ,CULTURE ,EDUCATION ,LEARNING - Abstract
John Dewey once characterized Americans as a people thirsty for absolutes. In the areas of culture and civilization, however, it appears that not too much progress has been made toward a definitive distinction. The "Cumulative Book Index" lists five cross references for "culture"—civilization, value of college education, learning and scholarship, self culture and education. This paper represents an attempt to clarify the structure of the concepts culture and civilization to the end that a more definitive use of the terms may be proposed. It also will attempt to provide illustrations of various ways the terms themselves have been and are being used. In order to begin such a review it becomes necessary to propose certain limitations of meaning and usage that will allow the reader to follow the discussion more readily. An attempt was made to clarify the structure of the concepts culture and civilization by the use of a schematic design within which were placed arbitrary thresholds designating different stages in the development of man's non-biologic life.
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- 1950
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11. SOME DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION AS DISPLAYED IN SOCIOLOGICAL LITERATURE.
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Lottick, Kenneth V.
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CIVILIZATION ,CULTURE ,EDUCATION ,LEARNING - Abstract
John Dewey once characterized Americans as a people thirsty for absolutes. In the areas of culture and civilization, however, it appears that not too much progress has been made toward a definitive distinction. The "Cumulative Book Index" lists five cross references for "culture"—civilization, value of college education, learning and scholarship, self culture and education. This paper represents an attempt to clarify the structure of the concepts culture and civilization to the end that a more definitive use of the terms may be proposed. It also will attempt to provide illustrations of various ways the terms themselves have been and are being used. In order to begin such a review it becomes necessary to propose certain limitations of meaning and usage that will allow the reader to follow the discussion more readily. An attempt was made to clarify the structure of the concepts culture and civilization by the use of a schematic design within which were placed arbitrary thresholds designating different stages in the development of man's non-biologic life.
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- 1950
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12. EVIDENCES OF SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION AND TYPES OF RESPONSES THERETO.
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Harper, Ernest Bouldin
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SOCIAL history ,STOCK exchanges ,SOCIAL workers ,EVALUATION ,CULTURE - Abstract
The article presents information on evidence of social disorganization. The processes of disorganization which underlie the external evidences so painfully clear to everyone antedate the World War and the stock market collapse of October, 1929. It will be pointed out shortly that the roots of the current disintegration arc embedded in the early history of American culture. In this situation many groups and interests are striving for recovery. Besides the "Brain Trust" and the Administration, several progressive political movements have appeared and organized labor has made some advance. In these efforts the intelligentsia have had and still have their chance as never before in people's political life. Among these groups are the social workers, and the purpose of this introductory paper is to set the stage for an evaluation of their efforts toward reconstruction. This will be done,by indicating the major symptoms of disorganization, analyzing the processes involved, and describing some of the characteristic responses that are being made to the present situation.
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- 1935
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13. CLASS POSITION AND SUCCESS STEREOTYPES IN GREEK AND AMERICAN CULTURES.
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Safilios-Rothschild, Constantina
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SOCIAL classes ,STEREOTYPES ,CULTURE ,SUCCESS ,BELIEF & doubt - Abstract
The present paper examines cultural beliefs about success, reflected in stereotypes about social classes, and their influence upon the degree of correspondence between objective class position and subjective class identification. The formulated hypothesis stating that the greatest degree of discrepancy between objective and subjective class position will tend to be found in the social classes most affected by unfavorable cultural stereotypes was supported by data available in two contrasting cultural milieus: the United States and Greece. The greatest degree of discrepancy is found in the American lower class and the Greek upper class which are most affected by corresponding negative stereotypes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1967
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14. Does Socialism Work?
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Soule, George
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MATERIALISM ,CULTURE ,SOCIALISM ,PERFORMING arts ,BOOKSELLERS & bookselling ,SOCIAL security ,CHILDREN ,MANNERS & customs - Abstract
Discusses the materialism and culture in the Soviet Union with emphasis on socialism. Comparison of the Soviet culture with that of the U.S.; Degree of satisfaction of the elementary wants of food, clothing and shelter; Popularity of opera and symphonic music in the country; Comparison between the sale of books in the Soviet Union and the U.S.; Establishment and improvement of social security by the Soviet system; Care and protection received by the children.
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- 1936
15. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
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Bentley, Eric
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AMERICAN art ,THEATER ,PERFORMING arts ,CULTURE ,PUBLIC opinion - Abstract
The article focuses on American art and culture. In New York there is a wide response to almost any good play when it has a good or even just a glossy production. In short, the idea that the theatre is dying like certain churches, because the public has lost interest and is busy elsewhere is simply not true. Professionally, the theatre retains the primacy which many of us believe to be its natural right. It is by virtue of no empty traditionalism that the theatre page or column precedes movies, radio and television in the papers.
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- 1953
16. DISCUSSION.
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GREENBERG, JOSEPH H.
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JUVENILE delinquency ,VALUES (Ethics) ,POSITIVE psychology ,CULTURE - Abstract
The article presents the author's views on social researcher Milton L. Barron and his study on juvenile delinquency and American values. He remarks that Barron has presented a very suggestive paper and that his review of the literature regarding values contains many important evaluative insights. Agreeing with Barron's delineation of positive and negative values, the author says that he believes that an analysis of the substitutive or compensatory values in American culture may be well accepted.
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- 1951
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17. Conclusion.
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Brameld, Theodore and Sargent, S. Stansfeld
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SOCIAL sciences ,ARTS ,WESTERN civilization ,CULTURE ,COMMUNISM ,SOCIALISM - Abstract
The article introduces several papers about the problem of anti-intellectualism in the United States from a number of perspectives. These perspectives include historical, political, economic, sociological, educational and psychological. Alfred L. Kroeber advances the thesis that fine arts, among other achievements of Western civilization, are reaching a stage of imitation and repetition which may conceivably signalize a period of cultural decadence. Leuchtenburg in his article, mentioned Marxism as an intellectual or anti-intellectual force in American culture.
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- 1955
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18. REPLY TO ALEX D. KRIEGER'S COMMENTS.
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Carter, George F.
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CULTURE ,ARCHAEOLOGY ,GLACIAL landforms ,ANTIQUITIES - Abstract
Examines the cultural change in relation to physical and cultural influences of American archeology in the Southwestern States of the U.S. Changes of full glacial ecology; Evaluation of artifacts; Question of terminology for stone technology.
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- 1959
19. Timing Patterns in the Development of Sexual Intimacy: An Attitudinal Report on Three Modern Western Societies.
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Christensen, Harold T. and arpenter, George R.
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PREMARITAL sex ,SEX customs ,QUESTIONNAIRES ,MORMONS ,CULTURE - Abstract
The present paper is the last in a series of three, all of which deal with premarital sexual intimacy compared cross-culturally. The cultures involved are an Intermountain area of the United States, which is predominantly Mormon and is relatively conservative or restrictive in its sexual outlook; a Midwestern section of the United States, which may be regarded as somewhat typical of the country as a whole; and Denmark, which, like the rest of Scandinavia, is relatively liberal or permissive in its sex norms. The two previous reports, by means of several statistical measures, demonstrated the sexual restrictiveness of the Intermountain culture and the sexual permissiveness of the Danish culture, as was originally hypothesized. Questionnaires were carefully constructed, translated into Danish, pretested several times on both sides of the Atlantic, revised on the basis of the pretests, and then administered during the spring of 1958 to classes in three universities selected from the three cultures under study.
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- 1962
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20. Social Class Mobility and Family Integration.
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Lemasters, E. E.
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SOCIAL mobility ,FAMILIES ,SOCIAL classes ,CULTURE - Abstract
This article presents a study which examined the impact of vertical social class mobility on family integration in the U.S. U.S. social scientists have published a mass of empirical data establishing the fact that social classes do exist in the country and, furthermore, that membership in a particular social class does tend to predict a wide range of behavior patterns from voting habits to kissing techniques. The study covers an investigation of 78 families. These family units were studied through a combination technique of having participant- observer papers written by student members of the families, using an outline provided by the writer. Interviews were conducted with students where further information seemed to be necessary. All of the cases were studied in the setting of a state university and reflected both patterns of vertical mobility and social class continuity. In general, families with social class continuity seem to have more stability and more sociological closeness than families in which either the entire group or some members of the group have been moving from one social class to another. The initial theory was based on the assumption that if social class is the basic variable which research implicitly assumes, then social class mobility must be one of the most powerful forces affecting family cohesion in U.S. culture.
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- 1954
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21. CENTRES OF JEWRY IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH.
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Davis, Moshe
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JEWS ,COMPARATIVE studies ,RELIGIOUS communities ,CULTURE ,RELIGION & sociology - Abstract
The article presents information about the comparative approach applied to the study of contemporary Jewry, which adds an important dimension to the research and interpretation of individual Jewish communities. Most present research analyses the local community in the context of its native environment and its adjustment to that environment. With the comparative method, one can explore the common relationship of Jewish communities throughout the world while taking into full account the problems of locus and specific historical configuration. Thus a particular Jewish community can be studied not only in its relation to the environing culture, but also in the total context of the Jewish people. The object of this paper is to delineate, by way of comparison, some of the disparate and common elements in the three major Jewish centers of the western hemisphere, Canada, the United States, and Argentina. The selected disparate element relates to the varying forms of representative organization of the Jewish communities as their respective majority, or host cultures influence them. The common element refers to the nature of individual identification with Jews and Judaism, a problem that is similar in the three communities.
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- 1963
22. MEASURING CHANGES IN ETHNIC REACTIONS.
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BOGAHDUS, EMORY S.
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RACE relations ,ETHNIC groups ,GROUP identity ,GRADUATE students ,CULTURE ,CULTURAL relations - Abstract
The article reports on a study which has attempted to measure some of the effects of Intercultural Workshop experiences upon the ethnic distance reactions of the members of the workshop. The experimental group was selected from the graduate students at the University of Southern California in 1948. One of the hypothesis of the study, which was based on a pilot experiment conducted in 1947, was that participation in an intercultural workshop for six weeks would result in a measurable decrease in ethnic distance reactions on the part of the members toward ethnic groups. It has been suggested by the study that this experiment needs to be repeated in various parts of the U.S. and with different ethnic groups.
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- 1951
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23. SHARING CULTURE VALUES.
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Davis-DuBois, Rachel
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SOCIAL values ,CULTURAL values ,CULTURE ,DEMOCRACY ,LIFESTYLES - Abstract
This paper aims to point to some results of a lack of sharing cultural values and some possibilities of sharing cultural values. If one may define democracy as "shared experiences and conclusions democratically arrived at," it is not clear that merely being tolerant of the presence of various cultural groups in American life is not sharing cultural experiences. If present culture is in a growing rather than a finished state, then the future American culture will be rich in so far as Americans now develop an atmosphere in which members of all these groups can share with each other the best of their social values, customs, and folkways. It is obvious that such a condition does not now prevail. The effect of an assumed superiority attitude on the part of the so-called dominant-group members is no less tragic. The term "cultural democracy" well describes this process, a thinking, feeling, and acting together, on a basis of equality. One need to be taking thought as to what some of these values are. There is need for intensive thought and. experimentation on how to share these differences.
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- 1939
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24. The Meaning of "Rurality" in American Society: Some Implications of Alternative Definitions.
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Bealer, Robert C., Willits, Fern K., and Kuvlesky, William P.
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RURAL geography ,RURALITY ,ECOLOGY ,CULTURE ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
A plea is made for the current need to consider carefully exactly what Is meant by the term "rural". It is suggested that, while ambiguity in usage prevails, most understandings involve ecological, occupational, or cultural dimensions in some measure. By taking each of these three broad classes of variables separately as the defining characteristic of "rurality", some of the strengths and weaknesses of each in terms of logic, scientific needs, professional precedents, and the demands from the larger society for pragmatic operation in the discipline are set down. While incomplete, the specification and analysis of the alternative lines of meaning are offered as a step in the necessary direction of clarifying the concept "rural". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1965
25. ECOLOGY AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS.
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Clarkson, James D.
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GEOGRAPHY ,ECOLOGY ,CULTURE ,THEORY ,AGRICULTURAL development - Abstract
Placing an ecological approach in the general framework of American geographic thought indicates the usefulness of distinguishing two trends in the development of this thought-the one ecological, the other spatial. American geography tended to reject the ecological approach because it was identified at an early period with environmental determinism, A spatial, non-functional, approach became dominant. Although the two approaches are two ends of a continuum, and thus connected, they arise from and lead to different sets of questions which involve different approaches and different bodies of theory. The ecological approach may be divided into four imprecise types-biological, human, cultural, and urban-political. The cultural-ecological approach is particularly useful in analyzing obstacles to innovation acceptance in agricultural development because it emphasizes the analysis of existent systems from different viewpoints. Four sets of reality, or viewpoints, can be distinguished in this context-that of the scientist-observer, that of the change-agent, that of the cultivator, and that of the ideal-set of the cultivator. Only when the overlaps and conflicts of these sets are recognized can a realistic appraisal be made. This is only a single instance of the potential of an ecological approach. Spatial theory and ecological theory have not yet been joined. The evident usefulness of both indicates the importance of attempting such a joining, and the futility of arguing for the ascendance of one over the other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1970
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26. Spanish-Speaking People in the United States: Some Research Constructs and Postulates.
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Cordasco, Francesco and Alloway, David N.
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IMMIGRANTS ,HISPANIC Americans ,ETHNOLOGY ,SAMPLING (Process) ,CULTURE ,SOCIAL science research ,ETHNOLOGY research ,ETHNIC groups - Abstract
The article discusses the lack of data regarding Hispanic immigrants in the United States and presents information on sources to correct that. Up-to-date research information regarding Spanish ethnic group is a problem for social science study. Papers published by the American Ethnological Society has helped correct the lack, specially the 1968 "Proceedings" periodical that addresses Spanish speakers in the country. The drawbacks of carrying out ethnological studies without carefully taken and stratified samples are elucidated. Several examples of research regarding the subject are also presented.
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- 1970
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27. A CRUSADE FOR BETTER U. S. POSTAGE STAMPS.
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POSTAGE stamps ,CULTURE - Abstract
The article discusses the quality of design of the U.S. postage stamps as of 1943. The author notes that postage stamps are not just receipts for service rendered by the U.S. Post Office, it is supposed to be a representation of a country's culture, its status in the league of nations. Despite the high technical standards applied by the Bureau of Engraving, American artist-designers expressed the unanimous opinion that the country's design of postage stamps compare poorly to the best in the world.
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- 1943
28. COMMENTS ON GEORGE F. CARTER'S "MAN, TIME, AND CHANGE IN THE FAR SOUTHWEST"
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Krieger, Alex D.
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HUMAN origins ,ANTIQUITIES ,PHOTOGRAPHS ,ARCHAEOLOGY ,CULTURE - Abstract
Examines ancient evidences of man in the Southwestern States of the U.S. Assessment of detailed presentation of field data with photographs and artifacts; Evaluation of ordinary requirements of archeological techniques; Detection of cultural changes.
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- 1959
29. Dostoevsky as Myth-Maker.
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Korg, Jacob
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MYTH ,MYSTICS ,CULTURE ,AUTHORS - Abstract
This article presents information on the book "Dostoevsky as Myth-Maker." It is a study of a mystic by an author who is a mystic, this book on Dostoevsky is, both more and less than criticism. Vyacheslav Ivanov, who died in 1949, was a poet and scholar of great originality and profound erudition. Basically a classical student specializing in the mystic religions of ancient Greece, he became a poet of considerable importance, taking a leading part in the literary life of St. Petersburg, Florida, between 1905 and 1912. Although he was fascinated by the study of cultural achievements, which he felt should be regarded as a single sweeping development, he thought that ultimate religious experience was a spiritual absolute which transcended artistic and intellectual activities.
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- 1953
30. Shelf-Room and Culture.
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UNITED States education system ,BOOKS & reading ,CULTURE ,EDUCATORS - Abstract
The article presents information on the importance of reading books. When President Charles William Eliot, educator in the U.S. said that a row of books five feet long, read at the rate of ten minutes a day, would supply a man with a liberal education, he was not dealing in impossibilities. Athens succeeded in training her citizens upon a far smaller expenditure of words. It is by no means certain that, in this country at any rate, the most condensed library is likely to prove the most popular.
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- 1909
31. Not Staged for Tourists.
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Rothschild, John
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TOURISM ,SERVICE industries ,CULTURE ,INTERNATIONAL relations - Abstract
It is not the relics of the past which draw most of the U.S. people abroad, but rather the wish to sample another way of living than their own. Every summer there are events in Europe which are not staged for tourists, which are little advertised or known, and which present in a few days, a day, or some hours a whole broad phase of culture. Information regarding these have been assembled here under the subject music, drama, festivals, art, politics and sports.
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- 1933
32. Social Class Differences and Family Life Education at the Secondary Level.
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Havighurst, Robert J.
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FAMILIES ,CULTURE ,SOCIAL classes ,SECONDARY education ,EDUCATION - Abstract
Although the family in some form or other is universal among human societies, the particular form which the family takes is an aspect of the culture of a society. Different cultures are associated with different kinds of family life. Consequently a country such as the U. S. A., which includes diverse cultural groups, will present a variety of types of family life, complicating the task of education for family life by the fact that school children represent this cultural diversity of family life practices and values. The principal cultural sub-groups in the United States, judged by their differences in family-life patterns, are; Ethnic Groups--Italian-American, Polish-American, Japanese-American, Mexican-American, German-American, etc. Religious Groups--Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, Mormon, Mennonite, etc. Social Class Groups--Upper Class, Middle Class, Lower Class. The cultural differences between middle-class and lower-class or working-class families will be discussed in this paper, together with their implications for family life education in the secondary schools. The material cited is only suggestive. There are other cultural differences which are not mentioned here. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1950
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33. SEASONAL PSYCHOLOGY.
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Vicary, James M.
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SEASONS ,HUMAN behavior ,AMERICANS ,ECONOMIC seasonal variations ,GENDER ,CULTURE ,PSYCHOLOGY ,ORGANIZATIONAL structure ,CULTURE -- Psychological aspects ,SEASONAL markets ,SEASONAL industries - Abstract
The article discusses seasonal psychology and the differences in human behavior during each season. The psychoseasonal trend is described for its marking Americans' perceptions of seasonal change. Word association tests are noted. Winter reportedly has the shortest seasonal association, while spring has the longest. People who are exclusively oriented towards one season are described. Deseasonalizing influences are explained. The article describes differing cultural, economic, psychological and social behavior depending on the season or time of year.
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- 1956
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34. The Destruction of Indochina.
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HISTORY of Indochina, 1945- ,WAR casualties ,WAR victims ,SOCIAL structure ,CULTURE ,VIETNAMESE people - Abstract
The article focuses on the study of the destruction in Indochina after the war conducted by the Stanford Biology Study Group. The report aims to evaluate the extent and seriousness of the said destruction. The people in Southeast Asia whose area has been part of the destruction have been subjected to intense deprivation and sufferings up to this time. Social destruction concerning the ecological damage in Southeast Asia and its effect on people living there is also discussed in the study. It stresses that U.S. policies are destroying the Vietnamese culture and social organization. Long-term effects and aftermath of the said destruction were evaluated in the study.
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- 1971
35. Communism and Conformity.
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Kennan, George F.
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COMMUNISM ,DEMOCRACY ,POLITICAL doctrines ,INTELLECTUAL life ,CULTURE ,COLLECTIVISM (Political science) ,POLITICAL science ,POLITICAL systems - Abstract
The article presents the author's discussion about the role of communism in the American democracy. His main objective is to present a thesis showing that the fear of communism may damage the essential part of the American democracy. He mentions the forces within the framework of the American society such as the cultural, political, artistic and intellectual life and their relation to the external environment. He also discusses the effects of these forces in the political and academic community in the United States.
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- 1953
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36. A Comparative Study of the Satisfaction of American and Mexican Operations.
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Slocum Jr., John W.
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BLUE collar workers ,EMPLOYEE attitudes ,EMPLOYEE morale ,JOB satisfaction ,ORGANIZATIONAL behavior ,INDUSTRIAL workers ,JOB satisfaction testing ,CULTURE - Abstract
This study compared the perceptions of need satisfaction and importance for blue-collar workers in the USA and Mexico. Organizational and technological differences were controlled to isolate culture as the independent variable. Porter's need questionnaire was used to tap employees' attitudes. The data indicate that there were significant differences in nearly every need item score between the two countries. Mexican workers were more satisfied than their counterparts in the USA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1971
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37. Our Music Now.
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Rorem, Ned
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MUSIC ,AUDIOVISUAL materials ,ARTS ,CULTURE ,MUSICAL composition ,COMPOSERS - Abstract
Focuses on the quality of music composition in the U.S. Influence of the soundtrack to the outcome of the motion picture production; Formality of word settings for singing actors in stage presentations; Emphasis on the talent of musicians; Music in television programs; Directors' employment of hack composers; Possibility of opera conceived for movies; Opera made from only arias.
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- 1974
38. The Literary Mind.
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Kazin, Alfred
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INTELLECTUALS ,CULTURE ,LITERARY agents - Abstract
The journal "The Nation" was founded by an Irish-born Englishman in order to strengthen the influence in the U.S., his adopted country of what E. L. Godkin called "the educated, moral and religious portion of the community." Godkin firmly believed in the political promise of the country; this had brought him over at twenty-five; but he doubted its capacity for cultural and moral development without the help of such intellectuals as himself and those he was able to enlist for "The Nation." He felt that a review of the English type was needed to help create "an educated class amongst us, to be the guardians of the traditions and feelings and aspirations of high culture." He pleaded with the politicians in Washington to advance "the interests of authors and readers, the class who keep civilization alive and make progress possible."
- Published
- 1965
39. The South Revisited.
- Author
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Zinn, Howard
- Subjects
CIVIL rights ,CULTURE - Abstract
The article focuses on the cultural history of the South, especially the civil rights movement in the Southern states of the U.S. On the Piedmont plane from Washington to Lynchburg, Virginia at dusk, a plump-faced man in a business suit began a conversation with the author, "You going to Lynchburg? So am I. I'm in the pharmaceutical business. Just come from Baltimore, trying to find me a salesman there... Understanding people is the main thing in selling... It's like this whole business now with the nigra. Why naturally the nigra's going to demand his rights so long as he's oppressed. And naturally the white man's going to oppress him so long as he can get away with it... I don't know what your religion is, but this is what I like about Christianity-it preaches moderation..."
- Published
- 1965
40. Tell It Like It Is, Baby'.
- Author
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Elliison, Ralph
- Subjects
CULTURE ,UNITED States legislators ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
The author and his wife were living the dormitory life of the American Academy in Rome and the author was much preoccupied with writing a novel, with literary concepts, with reviewing his own life's resources for literary creation, with the experience of discovering a foreign culture in which the old structures and guides that sustained his thoughts, emotions and conduct at home were so relaxed, whether awake or sleeping, that it was as though he was living in a barely controlled chaos. The author attempts to write an essay on the subject of desegregation and the Southern Congressmen's defiance of the Supreme Court.
- Published
- 1965
41. The Staggered Culture.
- Author
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Kronenberger, Louis
- Subjects
CULTURE ,HISTORICAL sociology ,CIVIL society ,SOCIAL psychology ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
Comments have been made about the American culture like how spoiled are their children, how hurried their meals are, how incessant they talk about money. Many changes in American manners and morals have been matters of period rather than place. At a certain point, in America and Europe alike, the upper and then the middle class-lower-class living cuts here too close to the bone, take up tennis or bridge, stop wearing corsets or start using wrist watches; or life in many places grows more informal, living more mechanized, language more downright. This is truer than ever today, when the speed of communication and transport has internationalized behavior and naturalizes ideas overnight
- Published
- 1965
42. Anticipation of the Light.
- Author
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Kelman, Ken
- Subjects
FILM characters ,CULTURE ,MOTION pictures ,ACTORS ,ECONOMICS - Abstract
The article focuses on changes in the style of film making in the U.S. Old American Cinema is not only glutted and cluttered with expensive sets, actors and union members, with all the respect for material power that characterizes U.S. culture. The old is also completely calculated, with believable characters, developed and motivated actions and clockwork time. Films have become a function not of energy, interest and rhythm, not of the human spirit, but of economic need and compulsive hypertrophy.
- Published
- 1964
43. The Abacus and the Rose. A Dialogue after Galileo.
- Author
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Bronowski, J.
- Subjects
DIALOGUE ,CULTURE ,GOVERNMENT policy ,INTELLECTUALS ,HISTORICAL sociology - Abstract
At Christmas time in 1956, the journal The Nation devoted a special issue to author J. Bronowski's "Science and Human values," an essay which immediately took and has since held, a leading place in the intellectual dialogue of the time. The issue itself was oversubscribed. Meanwhile, the problem whose dimensions Bronowski was the first to define has been impressed ever more acutely on the public mind, both in the U.S. and abroad. It was given its name, The Two Cultures, in a celebrated monograph by C.P. Snow; and its implications have been traced in government policy, educational practice and in the creative and critical documents of the time.
- Published
- 1964
44. The Roots of the Agony.
- Author
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McGee, Reece
- Subjects
PRESIDENTS of the United States ,CULTURE ,OFFICE buildings - Abstract
This article analyses the situation in Texas where former U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. To truly understand the necessity of Texas, and this strange land itself, one must live here awhile. The time required is indeterminate. Behind the verdant fields, magnificent high- ways and looming skyscrapers, Texas is still a harsh and violent land, in climate and in culture not so far removed from the savage wilderness it was only 130 years ago when the early "Texans" wrested it away from the dominion of Mexico and the perhaps greater authority of the Comanche. The respectability of the reactionary radicals surely comes in part from the identification of their ideas with patriotism, and with their flamboyant rhetoric.
- Published
- 1963
45. Something for the Arts.
- Author
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Straight, Michael
- Subjects
ART & state ,CULTURAL policy ,PERFORMING arts ,CULTURE ,DEMOCRACY - Abstract
Ponders the idea of creating a national policy for the arts in the U.S. Position on the issue taken by the Rockefeller Panel in their "Report on the Performing Arts" published in 1965; Actions taken by the federal government in supporting the arts; Principles that shape a sound federal arts program, according to Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg; Stance on the belief that culture and democracy are irreconcilable.
- Published
- 1965
46. Is There an American Political Philosophy?
- Author
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McKitrick, Eric L.
- Subjects
BOOK evaluations ,CULTURE ,POLITICAL philosophy - Abstract
The article discusses the book "The Liberal Tradition in America," by Louis Hartz. The author's interpretation of the United States' political thought since the revolution proceeds from a set of theoretical assumptions and assertions about the political o
- Published
- 1955
47. Dr. Oppenheimer's Exploratorium.
- Author
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Richmond, Al
- Subjects
MUSEUMS ,CULTURE ,ARTS ,HISTORICAL sociology - Abstract
During a week not many weeks ago a bomb was exploded fatally at a police station in San Francisco in California and across the bay a rally of young radicals exploded into a window-smashing rampage through the principal shopping district in Berkeley, California. In that week the author visited a museum. The museum, somewhere in the late term of its gestation, is innovative. Its founder and director, Frank Oppenheimer, calls it an exploratorium, and says there is nothing like it in the world. He believes it will set a new style in museums because it grapples with two problems of contemporary culture: the gap between the arts and sciences, and the gap between man and the technology he has created.
- Published
- 1970
48. Will Success Spoil Aspen?
- Author
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rnst, P. G.
- Subjects
CULTURE ,ARCHITECTS ,TREES ,WATER ,SOCIAL history - Abstract
The article presents information on social conditions at Aspen, Colorado. Strangely enough, the people of Aspen are indifferent to the beautification of the city. Not long ago, some Aspen architects decided that the planting of more trees would be a good idea. But when they approached the store and restaurant owners, only a few agreed to spend $12.50 for a tree. This seems all the more shocking because retail sales amount to $9 million a year. Despite Aspen's riches and cultural aspirations, the county library has sufficient funds to keep open only a few hours a day. And even more important there is still no adequate water-purification plant.
- Published
- 1966
49. Hail, Blithe Spirit!
- Author
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Trumbo, Dalton
- Subjects
CULTURE ,SPUTNIK satellites ,LUNIK (Lunar probes) ,LUNAR probes ,EDUCATION - Abstract
The author raises several questions like who will ever be able to forget days of glory, before Sputnik I and Lunik II when culture came to Madison Avenue in New York, and eggheads drew better ratings than murderers. He further says that who cares to estimate how many millions of savage little juveniles, denied their, nightly beakers of blood, twisted sullenly while the old man roared his answers at the sweating slob on the TV screen, and mother filled the station breaks with gentle sermons on the cash value of education.
- Published
- 1959
50. America's Quest for Culture.
- Author
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Brandon, Henry
- Subjects
CULTURE ,INFLUENCE ,SYMPHONY - Abstract
The article presents an interview with the actor-author Peter Ustinov. To the question whether the Americans are now in quest of romance, Ustinov replies that in England one travels from Liverpool to London in a train and there are eight people in the compartment who do not talk to each other. Whereas in America there is tremendous "togetherness" and the front door is nearly always ajar. To the question whether he thought there is an American culture, Ustinov replies that there obviously is one. America has exerted a great influence upon the people and one can take of American culture.
- Published
- 1958
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