Word: psychologistic
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...absence of a multicultural history curriculum perpetuates a "lack of self-esteem and self- worth" among African-American students. That, in turn, they argue, contributes to blacks' poor academic performance, high dropout rate and "antisocial behavior." By contrast, 28 prominent scholars, including historian William Manchester and educator and psychologist Kenneth B. Clark, are protesting a proposed revision of New York State's public school history curriculum, which, they say, risks reducing history to "ethnic cheerleading." In California, meanwhile, the state curriculum commission has rejected 16 of 26 new history and social-studies textbooks, asserting, among other things, that the books...
...stopping abusive behavior and curbing their attraction to children. But in cases where priests engage in sex with adults -- female or male -- the goal is more subtle. "If the only problem is that he fell in love, this is not the place for him," says Father John Loftus, a psychologist who runs Southdown, a treatment center in Aurora, Ont. "There's nothing psychiatrically abnormal about that." Where a cleric often needs help, says Loftus, is in his "professing one thing and living another." Some priests deny they have a conflict; others are tortured by guilt. For some, sexual activity...
...that athletes participated in about a third of 862 sexual attacks on campus. Another national study of 24 gang sexual assaults at colleges found that most involved fraternity brothers or members of athletic teams, primarily the football and basketball squads. "If you have an athletic fraternity, watch out," warns psychologist Bernice Sandler of the Association of American Colleges...
...play together but also often eat and live together. And personal integrity is frequently a weak match for group loyalty. In a mob, especially one fueled by alcohol or drugs, individuals may not blanch at joining in a gang rape. "They will do anything to please each other," observes psychologist Sandler. "They are raping for each other. The woman is incidental." And, she adds, "they don't think of it as rape even when the victim is unconscious. Rape is something done by one man in a dark alley...
...everyday life as well. Society conspires in that belief. Sports stars move in a rarefied world of privilege where good grades, money, drugs and sex are readily available and transgressions are easily forgiven. "After all, the group-think rationale goes, rules are for others, not for heroes," points out psychologist Toni Farrenkopf of Portland, Ore. Communities are outraged when minority youths are involved in sexual assaults, but when revered athletes are implicated, the response is commonly a tut-tutted "Boys will be boys" and a sotto voce variation of "She asked...