Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...budgets was one of the really important facts of the 1950s: the Republicans who went to Washington four years ago, expecting to shrink Big Government drastically, now find themselves caught up in the New Republicanism that tacitly accepts Big Government as a necessity imposed by the political and social realities of life in the mid-century...
Many juvenile crimes, especially in the advanced teens, are motivated by downright meanness. Around the ages of sixteen and seventeen some of the boys become so tough and anti-social that their acts become increasingly brutal. A good example occurred a few years ago when one local tough stood on a street corner flipping a coin in the air for fifteen minutes. He then let it drop to the sidewalk. Another boy standing nearby bent over to pick it up for him, and promptly received a kick in the face from the flipper. "That guy was real mean," a local...
...Gluecks, a well-known husband-and-wife team, have been conducting researches into the nature, causes, and treatment of delinquency for 35 years. In 1950 they published their now famous Social Prediction Table in an epic study on Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency. The Table was intended as a means of predicting the future behavior patterns of children...
Many experts had believed, for example, that membership in a gang was a primary cause of juvenile delinquency, but the Gluecks discovered that nine-tenths of the delinquents show their earliest anti-social symptoms before the age of eleven, whereas boys do not usually join gangs until they are in their teens...
...delinquent Jewish boys in New York State indicated that 91 per cent of the group would have been identified earlier by the Glueck test. And it is indicated that the test applied to different races. Similar tests in Massachusetts and New Jersey also seemed to uphold the Social Prediction Table...