Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard does not plan to expose its Women's Studies con- centrators--many of whom will already be avowed feminists--to the range of literature--by both men and women--on women. While "Social Studies 10" treats both Adam Smith and Karl Marx, "Women's Studies 10" makes no pretense of an open mind. It advocates one narrow, often insipid. "approach," the feminist "approach." This "approach" wanders all the way from liberal feminism to socialist feminism to radical feminism. Other areas of the discipline--if it is a discipline and if it has other areas--are ignored...
Even when feminists deign to consider the classic thinkers of other social sciences, their arrogance is staggering, Susan Okin, for instance, in Women in Western Political Thought, describes John Stuart Mill as a "far-thinking feminist" but a limited thinker. Okin claims that Mill failed to consider adequately life outside the structure of the family. Fortunately feminist thinkers have transcended Mill's intellectual limitations...
...compromise and restoration of stability wherever it has been disrupted. Support for destabilizing and extremist forces and all terrorist groups should be ended, along with attempts to expand the sphere of influence of one side at the expense of the other. All countries should work together on economic, social and ecological problems. Greater openness and democracy in our country are necessary. We need the free flow of information; the unconditional and complete release of prisoners of conscience; the freedom to travel, to choose one's country and place of residence; effective control by the people over the formulation of domestic...
...rumor mill is a semicovert part of the information media, says Kapferer, who holds an American Ph.D. in social psychology from Northwestern University and teaches at France's School for Advanced Commercial Studies. He believes rumors reveal the desires, fears and obsessions of a society. "They are," he says, "an echo of ourselves...
...going to make an enormous difference to disabled students who come to Harvard as freshmen, " he said. "Right now, [disabled students] basically have no social life...