Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cases like that of the fourteen year-old, the ABC must seek to secure greater social responsibility, both from liquor dealers and from the general public. Under existing practices, many people, antagonized by the ABC's behavior, sympathetically abet what they consider "oppressed" youth. The surest way of insuring public confidence is a more practical approach toward such minor matters as the eleven o'clock beer. Another measure which would secure greater public confidence would be to lower the age limit to eighteen, at least on relatively harmless wines and beers, if not on hard liquors...
...center of Anglo-Saxon purity. But this period, with its trials, disappointments, and its bitterness, has also served to remind people of what Southern liberals have often said--in a sometimes weak and strained voice: that the issue must be handled with a delicacy almost new to American social and political progress...
...professor scoffs, "He's groping for a comprehensive theory of the universe with Newton's Principia as his ideal." A social relations tutor observes, "His followers are as avid as Marxists." And Pravda replies, "He's a tool of capitalistic warmongers." But while the scholarly tempest brews, Professor of Sociology Talcott Parsons answers for himself--"Heavens, let's not go off the deep...
...simplest terms, Persons is striving for "a general theory of action" unifying both personal psychology and broad economic, cultural and social theories. The British Journal of Sociology and some professors actually compare Parson's theories to those of Sir Isaac Newton. While Parsons himself laughs at this analogy, his own explanations sound like a Natural Sciences 3 definition of the conceptual scheme...
Although absorbed in his studies, Parsons still recognizes a tension between the individual as a social scientist and the individual as a social being. "Freud never talked psychoanalysis at the dinner table," he observes. "I disapprove of psychologists who experiment on their children." Parsons himself has three children, one son, a Harvard graduate, a daughter now at Radcliffe and another who has graduated...