Word: behaviorisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Richard Hackman, a specialist in organizational behavior, would fill a tenured opening left by Professor of Social Relations Robert F. Bales, who has moved into semi-retirement because of poor health...
However, I would like to clarify two points made in the article that are blatantly erroneous and misleading. The first is the lead sentence, which claims that AIDS can be stopped "only when people exercise more caution in their social behavior," (according to one speaker at the forum). This is simply wrong. AIDS is known to be transmitted only through intimate sexual contact, blood transfusions, and the sharing of hypodermic needles. AIDS is not transmitted casually, and I for one cannot think of any "social behavior" that could expose one to the virus, virus...
...reluctant to treat the Conservative Club too seriously. This is just the latest in their attempts to gain attention by outrageous behavior, their contribution to racial understanding by inviting the Consul General of South Africa. But then again the Nazis were dismissed as crackpots...
...pornography issue represents the lynch pin for issues ranging from homosexual rights to marital rape legislation, the pornographic image represents only the surface of an entire sexual mentality underlying social behavior and attitudes. The F.A.C.T. reprint of an L.A. Times editorial points out, "the target should be the coercion, not the sexual nature of the image." Why not, perhaps, both...
Those who disagree with this approach--notably MacKinnon, a lawyer and professor of political science, and co-author of the MacKinnon-Dworkin bill--use the same evidence to argue that a critical causal tie exists between the image and the reality. Pornography's presence perpetuates pornographic minds and violent behavior, MacKinnon argues, relying on psycho-sociological studies...