Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generation in direct line from the Prophet Mohamed. He was the son of Hussein, Sherif of Mecca. From the age of eleven he grew up at the court of the Turkish tyrant Abdul Hamid in Constantinople, where he was, like other children of notables, a hostage for the good behavior of his father. There the boy Abdullah learned languages .(besides Arabic of Koranic purity, he speaks Turkish, understands French and English), military science and diplomacy. He developed a taste for Arabic poetry, skill in chess, a gourmet's taste in food...
Veblen approached social criticism as if he were some expert envoy-extraordinary sent from a distant planet to report on human behavior. Under this bland mask of anthropological detachment he hid his passionate conviction that man, in being forced to labor in the sweat of his brow, was not paying a divine penalty for sin but simply giving vent to his most powerful natural passion : "the instinct of workmanship...
...right; the trouble was with the behavior of some of the men who were covered by it. When the act's apparatus did not get them what they wanted, the brotherhoods simply threw it away and threatened to use force. In 1941, in 1943, in 1946 and again this year, the brotherhood leaders had gone through the act's elaborate process of negotiation, mediation, conciliation-and then rejected a presidential fact-finding board's recommendations and set a strike date...
Experimental Ownership. The same profound suspicion, he says, accounts for many odd quirks of Negro behavior. Negro tenants who pick up and leave their farrners sometimes do so, Cohn says, for a purely experimental purpose: to find out if they will really be allowed to keep mules or farm implements which they have bought from the landlord...
...Stanford did not have so pleasant a time. He gave electroconvulsive shocks to recently bred females. Some produced young, but did not know what to do next. The shake-up apparently destroyed their instinctive knowledge of how to build nests or suckle their infants. They "exhibited no maternal behavior," and acted as if the whole thing had been a dream...