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THEIR "SOCIAL NORM" ARGUMENT is flawed. It does nothing to explain the considerable variations of status within ethnic groups: why, for example, a large number of Irish-Americans live in poverty in neighborhoods like South Boston while others sit on the boards of major corporations or in the White House or even in the United Nations. Similarly, if a group advances because its behavior and attitudes conform to social norms, it's difficult to explain the economic and political power of the Sicilian Mafiosi, who never went to college, joined the Rotary Club, or read Robert Dahl...
...things given, as an institution's national power increases its demand for cultural specificity decreases. No doubt this dynamic of Americanization or American institutional democratization--if I can call it such--is never perfect at any given point in time: it is always an approximation of a longrun norm or ideal, exhibiting much cultural...
...services on September 14 Rabbi Gold objected strongly to the timing conflict. Before a Memorial Church audience that included Rosovsky, Rabbi Gold argued that the conflict separates Jewish freshmen from their classmates on an "emotion-laden" day and that it pressures Jews to conform to a non-Jewish norm and to ignore their religion...
...image of Cleaver, rapist? In Soul on Ice, he wrote, "I became a rapist. To refine my technique and modus operandi, I started out by practicing on black girls in the ghetto--in the black ghetto where dark and vicious deeds appear not as aberrations or deviations from the norm, but as part of the sufficiency of the Evil of a day--and when I considered myself smooth enough, I crossed the tracks and sought out white prey. I did this consciously, deliberately, willfully, methodically....Rape was an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was defying and trampling...
...however, the struggle for shorter hours had established the ten-hour day and six-day week in the majority of industries and occupations. After the turn of the century, the hours of work began to decrease in steps. By 1930 the 48-hour week had become the norm. By 1940 the 40-hour week had been established...