Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although many people complain about local government and many communities face "social deterioration," Johnson said, "you would be surprised how little input we get from the public in local government...
Leverett House senior Mark R. Hoffenberg '89, who received $2700 in grants from the CFIA, the Committee on African Studies and the Social Studies Committee, says his trip to South Africa was an invaluable experience...
Hoffenberg's thesis focuses on a South African reform program that claims to be accommodating black political rights within government structures. The Social Studies concentrator says his thesis will be "an analysis of new government structures with a view to what is motivating them, whose interests are being served, and in what ways they are being used to legitimize a hierarchically-based society...
Films from the Franco era try to demonstrate in subtle ways the hypocrisy of the time. They cover broad themes like the sham morality of the bourgeoisie and the public's general insensitivity to social problems. These themes isolate Spain from other Western European countries, Pressberg says...
...when it seems there was something these people really believed in, something they fought for. We also see that their dream had as much to do with a utopian (what we now tend to disparage as "touchyfeely") vision of how people would treat each other as it did with social change. We understand then that the '60s promised to a generation that youth and idealism could really make a difference...