Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the university's rosy rescue proposal, the Chelsea system will provide extensive social services for children as well as a rigorous education. While B.U. teaching interns would receive course credits for their stints at the blackboard, degree candidates in nursing and dentistry would oversee medical and nutrition programs for preschoolers. B.U. social workers would visit the homes of troubled students to help address problems affecting their school performance. Other plans include a top-to-bottom overhaul of the curriculum and increases in teacher salaries, now among the lowest in the state...
...demand these days as a speaker at gatherings of ecologists and government planners. "People ask me, 'How could such a world come about?' I use the example of the vast change in smoking behavior in this country, which is a paradigm of the way in which social change toward Ecotopian patterns is happening and is going to happen. When you give people a choice between living and dying, on the whole more choose living...
...encouraged such an independent spirit in women that they have become sexual predators and even control the ruling party. Into this world of spartan but sensual living comes a reporter, the first American to visit Ecotopia since independence, to explore Ecotopian technology, the almost religious reverence for nature, and social habits, both appealing and appalling...
When Callenbach began researching the book, he recalled a work he had read while a student at the University of Chicago, Science and Sanity, in which author Alfred Korzybski talked about man's capacity for "non survival" behavior. "He used the term largely in a social sense, but it seemed applicable to a wide range of things that we started doing in this century and that seemed like a good idea at the time, but now persist even when circumstances have changed and the habits have become self-defeating." Callenbach mentions things like nuclear plants and chemical fertilizers that...
...from America to Ecotopia requires a lot of social reconditioning. All companies are small, worker-owned co-operatives, and the distinction between work and play seems to have vanished. Possible, says Callenbach, when people have freed themselves from large corporations and from cars and TV -- what he * calls "isolating technologies." Americans, he complains, have become a nation of emotionally detached creatures. "Humans like to play and mess around, and yet we are trying to live in the lockstep mode of modern society. No other species would put up with having to sit at a desk all day. And yet here...