Word: etzioni
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movement of American society toward reducing sex to animal-like conduct" is reversing itself, Amitai Etzioni said, and the new trend will create "a synthesis, a new middle" in sexual behavior...
...Warren E.C. Wacker, acting master of Mather House and director of the University Health Services, said yesterday that his experience with Harvard students does not justify Etzioni's reference to animal-like behavior, and that students here care about their relationships...
Phillip E. Drysdale '75 said yesterday that Etzioni is wrong because the sexual revolution never implied animal-like conduct in human relationships...
...Amitai Etzioni, the Columbia University sociologist, believes this turn will be just one necessary expression of a permanently lower standard of living in America. "Things are not going to get back to normal. Either people will refuse to accept the fact that they will have to make do with less, and we will see more conflict among classes and races, or they will return to older, nonmaterialistic American values...
Money Talks. Aside from any strain on honesty, the energy crisis promises to produce dramatic and lasting changes in American habits of thinking and acting. Columbia Sociologist Amitai Etzioni believes that a prolonged shortage will produce a decline in egalitarianism and the reassertion of privilege in America. "Money will make the difference in the future," he says. "Only people with money will be able to travel and buy Cadillacs. The poor part of society will end up paying a disproportionate share." Boston University Sociologist S.M. Miller asserts that the rationing of commodities like gas and oil will bring a rationing...