Word: ethically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...find it useful to view the self-fulfillment movement in terms of "stage theory", as a reaction to stages in American life that had preceded it. At the first stage, as when a family first migrates to the U. S. people seem governed by what might be called the "ethic of compliance" or "conformity" they do whatever they do because that is the way it is done here. They work because everyone is expected to work. But then, perhaps in the next generation, they move to the next stage in which they assume more control over their lives. This stage...
...slaughter perpetrated by Christian Phalangist forces in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. Israeli forces, though not directly implicated, shouldered much of the blame in the world's press for the massacre, as it had indeed occurred under Israeli auspices. In accordance with a conscientious democratic ethic, Prime Minister Menschem Begin's government conducted a thorough investigation of the conduct of several cabinet ministers. It is a revealing if not pathetic comment on the state of international diplomacy that no official body, Christian or otherwise, was ever asked to scrutinize and publicly condemn the actions of the real murderers...
...social type known as the hipster into a daring pioneer adrift in "the perpetual climax of the present," freed of all moral guides and codes of conduct except the thrumming of his own nervous system. The author specifically disavowed any precedents for this existential frame of mind: "If the ethic reduces to Know Thyself and Be Thyself, what makes it radically different from Socratic moderation with its stern conservative respect for the experience of the past is that the Hip ethic is immoderation, childlike in its adoration of the present (and indeed to respect the past means that one must...
...film dominated by gripping, often painful truth, one character rings especially true when he notes that regardless of the outcome of a long-awaited rumble, "Greasers will still be greasers, and socs will still be socs." "This relentless fact allows the delinquents' ethic to go unchallenged. It goes a long way towards explaining the loneliness and sadness that grips the outsiders in this film and those on the streets today...
...homes of East European immigrants several decades ago. There is pressure to work, and there is also great respect for education." Sociologist William Liu, who directs the Asian-American mental health center at the University of Illinois' Chicago campus, stresses the importance of cultural conditioning. "In the Confucian ethic, which permeates the cultures of China, Japan, Viet Nam and Korea, scholastic achievement is the only way of repaying the infinite debt to parents, of showing filial piety...