Word: paradigm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would not break. He was wrong. Until last week, that was one of the very few times that lacocca came close to having egg on his face. After 32 years with Ford, the plain-spoken son of an Italian immigrant was a Horatio Alger-hero on wheels, a paradigm of upward automobility. Yet unlike others who have risen through the sober, polyester-clad ranks of America's most important industry, lacocca is perpetually outspoken, fashionably dressed in European worsteds and as obviously at ease in a barroom throbbing with used-Ford salesmen as in a hearing room full...
...citation reads: Not only an inventive and influential scientist, but a paradigm of the man of learning as man of action...
...psychology I have been studying these subjects for over ten years and have been learning the literature and model of "sociobiology" for the past three years--three more years, I would propose, than J. Wyatt Emmerich, author of the editorial, has been studying this new and thought-provoking paradigm of social science...
Furthermore, Emmerich "wonders how DeVore can make such a statement [on the narrow cleft between humans and other species] when the human evidence for his theories is simply nonexistent." Evidence is sparse at the moment, and this may be a valid criticism of the paradigm but I am sure Mr. Emmerich is not at all familiar with the body of data being generated to support sociobiological theory. To say it is "simply nonexistent" is to engage in a polemic which is neither fair nor scholarly correct...
Lasch studies the family as a traditional institution crumbling under the strains of competitive, modern society. In his sometimes dogmatically Marxist paradigm, the family as an institution embodies the contradictions of capitalism. Just as the early industrialists "socialised" production by taking productive activity out of the home, he argues, society is now achieving "the socialization of reproduction." While parents still seem to manage their families, they do so under the watchful eyes of doctors, psychiatrists, educators and other "experts." Marriage is invaded by advisers on "the joy of sex" and the proper mix of "love and orgasm...