Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franz Boas got into anthropology 53 years ago. He has invaded almost every branch of this science: linguistics, primitive mentality, folklore, ethnology, growth and senility, the physical effects of environment. He reminds his colleagues of the oldtime family doctor who did everything from delivering babies to pulling teeth.
Deprive a man of food for three days and he will respond biologically. Then give him a chance to steal a loaf of bread and he will respond culturally. But where biology stops and culture begins is a question over which sociologists, psychologists and anthropologists have quarreled long & loud. In...
Dr. Ball gracefully stepped out. Of his antagonists in First Church, Dr. Ball magnanimously observed: "They are not really reactionary. They are just victims of heredity and environment, and perhaps habit. ... I heard Robert La Follette make a stirring summation once and it fired me with liberalism. Now I am...
Worse could scarcely befall a family than the woes that beset the Hardcastles of Hanky Park, a suburb of Manchester Father Henry, who steadfastly refuses to "go Bolshy," prays only for God to give him work. Son Harry wins 22 quid on horse race and gets a girl into trouble...
His investigations, moreover, were confined to pupils in the high schools of three Massachusetts towns, a singularly restricted erea of examination. No private schools or distant fields of endeavor were included in the experiment, and little or no effort at obtaining a general cross-section was made. In addition, the...