Word: caplovitz
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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Inflation is liberating the suburbs. So argues City University of New York Sociologist David Caplovitz. With residents forming car pools and baby-sitting pools, entertaining more at home and happily exchanging useful junk at garage sales, he says, "keeping up with the Joneses is gone, and a lifeboat camaraderie has taken its place." Fascinated by this development, Caplovitz is applying for a federal grant to study a surprisingly neglected subject-the hidden psychological side of inflation...
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