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While Lasch's analysis of the effects of the rise of modern social science may be largely accurate, his capitalist conspiracy theory seems too simple to explain the development of applied social science. Lasch himself seems to recognize this: he alludes to the agents of socialization only indirectly...
...presents. He uses social history occasionally to illustrate a point, yet he sometimes seems to write from an entirely theoretical perspective. He writes mostly about studies of the family rather than about the family itself: he opens with a Marxist discussion of the place of the family in capitalist society, and in his conclusion he uses psychoanalytic theory to analyze the current problems in families. The conclusion seems fitting in its application of psychology to social problems, a synthetic finish to a theoretical discussion. But it fails to connect with the historical and empirical lines of earlier chapters...
...members of groups like Hare Krishna are generally hysterical. Perhaps the contrast can be explained by the uneasiness--sometimes terror--people have felt since before the time of Socrates when faced with something they do not understand. Thus, a financier may quite coldly denounce a Marxist critique of the capitalist system, but when he is told that his son or daughter has joined a mystical Oriental sect he goes frantic trying to combat a system that baffles...
...confrontation was particularly difficult for Peking, which has feared just such a challenge ever since the end of the Viet Nam War. Once, Peking could win friends by accusing major capitalist powers-first the French, then the U.S. -of manipulating the colonial states of Indochina. Now the only villains are its fellow Communists...
...issue. The headline on the ads said it better than the grumblings of any critic; "Rolling Stone sells out: The 10th Anniversary TV Special." The magazine had gone the way of so many other children of the Sixties, but with a difference-Rolling Stone was now flaunting its hip capitalist style with relish. Yet this exercise in electronic self-promotion by a member of the print media might have been excuseable if the two-hour birthday show had at least amounted to a competent rock history documentary. Instead, the hapless viewer witnessed grating excesses of Felliniesque imagery accompanied by watered...