Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after the pioneers and the cattlemen, of course, came the schoolmarms and the lawyers and the congressional committees. The untrammeled open plains need to be fenced and organized and submitted to the rule of law. After action governed by conscience comes behavior governed by regulation, the broader organization of a more complicated society...
...there are important differences in orientation between these strange bedfellows. Bennett wants to see students instructed in a small set of moral values centered around Judeo-Christian, Western traditions. He demands that Universities teach courses on Christian morality and impose strict codes of behavior which strongly discourage premarital sex, drugs and drinking. They dismiss current ethical instruction, which they characterize as games about "deciding which person to throw out of the lifeboat...
...object, saying that a university should go no farther, that it is up to society to change its attitudes before universities can change them for society. But on closer inspection, it is clear that the university is one of the places where social standards and codes of human behavior can be transformed--whether for good or bad--as witnessed in the anti-Vietnam protests of the 1960s...
...students must be moral. And that may not be compatible in a large, bureaucratic Harvard of today that sometimes values power more than brilliance, and where competition is the order of the day. What needs to change is the atmosphere of the Harvard community and the behavior of its members...
...terror of the '80s: in Minneapolis a 29-year-old male prostitute who had known for at least two years that he had been infected with the AIDS virus continued to have sexual relations with his clients, mostly married bisexual men. Today fear of such reckless behavior is driving many states -- Minnesota, Colorado, South Carolina and Hawaii among them -- to consider drastic solutions: temporary detention, forced isolation, even jail for so- called recalcitrant carriers. It is not an idle threat. Last month in Pensacola, Fla., a judge ordered a 14-year-old infected with the virus locked...