Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Technology heavily burdens the two-adult-or what anthropologists call the "nuclear"-family. Modern society demands what Yale Psychologist Kenneth Keniston calls "technological ego dictatorship," a talent for divided living that requires coolly rational behavior at work, reserving feeling for home. Wholeness is often elusive. "Home is where the heart is," but more than one-third of U.S. mothers work at least part time, and some fathers hardly see the kids all week. According to Psychiatric Social Worker Virginia Satir, the average family dinner lasts ten to 20 minutes; some families spend as little as ten minutes a week together...
...good parent? All the experts wryly advise that the easiest way is to have good parents. Also blessed are families battling for what Psychologist Muzafer Sherif calls "superordinate goals"-the kind of unifying struggle for existence that once cemented families of pioneers and immigrants. "Hostility gives way," reports Sherif, "when groups pull together to achieve overriding goals which are real and compelling for all concerned." In this sense, some impoverished Americans are luckier than affluent parents, who must use their wits to seek emotional unity...
Like the Supreme Court, however, good parents draw a sharp line between free speech and illegal conduct. Author-Psychologist Haim G. Ginott, author of the currently much-discussed Between Parent and Child, argues that "most discipline problems consist of two parts: angry feelings and angry acts. Each part has to be handled differently. Feelings have to be identified and expressed; acts may have to be limited and redirected." How and when to set limits depends partly on the child's age. Nothing makes a small child more anxious than being asked if he "wants" to do this or that...
...immensely popular teacher at Shady Hill, Ryerson is now the major force behind the Palfrey Street School. Working with his wife, Alice, the school psychologist, he is putting into practice his own theory of liberal education, teaches daily English classes, maintains a constant personal involvement in every detail of the problems of individual students and faculty members, as well as fulfilling his administrative duties...
Harvard Social Psychologist Thomas Pettigrew summed it up by saying: "A lot of people voted their prejudices, but more people voted something else." White, more assertive as a victor than as a campaigner, declared: "No man or woman is going to tear this city apart with hate or bigotry or false promises." Mrs. Hicks, more gracious in defeat than in combat, appeared with White on election night to congratulate him and wish him well...