Word: judgmentalism
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...been a distinguished member of the HBS faculty for 35 years, and is widely admired within and beyond Harvard for his intelligence and judgment, his organizational savvy, and his devotion to HBS and to Harvard as a whole,” Summers wrote...
...Political Judgment." The answer lies partly in the character of the times, a period of great social upheaval, and partly in the nature of the vandal, who is as difficult to define as he is to catch. In New York City, for example, police make arrests in only 2% to 3% of all reported cases. The vandal's deeds, as British Sociologist Stanley Cohen of England's University of Durham has observed, are commonly described as wanton, pointless, aimless, senseless, meaningless or mindless. Cohen is one of several social scientists who think that none of these objectives really...
...characterize property destruction -whether it is pulling up paving stones in Paris, breaking embassy windows in Jakarta or wrecking a slum-area store in Los Angeles-with a phrase like 'reckless, ignorant vandalism' is a political judgment," Cohen has written. He agrees with Fordham University Sociologist John M. Martin that every act of vandalism carries a heavy freight of motivation and even logic-though scanalized and law-abiding citizens are not likely to appreciate either. As a classic example, the Luddites who smashed the new textile machines at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution were venting their rage...
...This view is also held by Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo, a psychologist at Stanford University and possibly the leading U.S. authority on the anatomy of vandalism. Years of study and experimentation have gone into Zimbardo's theory, which plausibly explains the present-and in Zimbardo's judgment seemingly irreversible-national surge in such destruction. The vandal is typically young (nearly 80% of all those arrested are under 18), and the young of today care little for the society their fathers built. Furthermore, in an age of expanding permissiveness, the vandal is no longer so heavily concentrated...
...after Lincoln met with a delegation of African Americans and urged them to emigrate to Central America. "You and we are different races," Lincoln told his black audience. "We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other two races ... Your race are suffering, in my judgment, the greatest wrong inflicted on any people. But even when you cease to be slaves, you are yet far removed from being placed on an equality with the white race. You are cut off from many of the advantages which the other race enjoy." The very presence of blacks...