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...Africa. The majority of the whites had originally been dirt farmers from the impoverished north of Portugal; they had emigrated to Angola in the hope of a better life. Although few got rich, most had deep roots in Africa. Many of the refugees found it extremely difficult to adjust to a Portugal that was still in the throes of the post-Salazar transition to democracy and a mixed economy. Jobs, housing and schooling were scarce: thousands still live in wretched urban shantytowns...
...Lynds' findings was that Munsonians-and by implication, most Americans-were living in two different centuries, desperately trying to adjust to rapid industrialization, yet holding on fiercely to the homespun values of 19th century rural America. Wrote the Lynds: "A citizen has one foot on the relatively solid ground of established institutional habits, and the other foot fast to an escalator erratically moving in several directions at a bewildering variety of speeds." Now a new team of sociologists headed by Theodore Caplow of the University of Virginia has moved in on Muncie to update the Lynds with a study...
...studying," he says. "I worry about kids who comes here with inflated opinions of themselves as athletes. They don't make it on the fields, and they often end up as just average students. These are some of the most unhappy people I've seen. They just don't adjust and end up hanging out at Charlie's Kitchen for four years...
...Kuan Yew's Singapore, Leopold Senghor's Senegal, Tito's Yugoslavia - literate and cultivated populations have succeeded in matching political progress with economic and cultural development. But Iran's unique society, so influenced by its religious structure and rooted for centuries in a different world, simply could not adjust to such radical change. The Shah failed to realize that the dramatic alterations he envisioned for the economic advance of his nation required the development of an acceptable political system. He concentrated on the army and the institutions that related to executive power. He ruled as an absolute monarch - no matter...
Membership is declining primarily because unions have failed to adjust to an enormous postwar switch in job patterns. Their prime appeal has always been to male factory hands. But manufacturing has gone down in importance, while workers have flooded into wholesale and retail trade, service industries and white-collar occupations like computer programming?all predominantly nonunion...