Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asked for a $532 billion budget and assumed revenues of $504 billion, with a $28 billion deficit. The House lopped $2 billion from defense, eliminated the President's proposed $2.5 billion real-wage insurance and $2.3 billion in revenue sharing, and added some funds to social spending. The result: spending of $532.7 billion. But by estimating revenues at $508 billion because of a higher projected G.N.P., the House claimed a lower deficit of $24.9 billion...
...tyranny with another. A junior at the University of Southern California, Said Djabbari, 21, wanted to go back but now has misgivings. "The previous government wielded an iron fist in a velvet glove," he says. "This new regime doesn't give a damn about the glove." Adds a social science student at the University of Kansas: "The Ayatullah sounds exactly like the Shah. Previously, if I opposed the government, I was opposing the Shah. Now they tell me I'm opposing...
WHEN TALCOTT PARSONS, Professor of Sociology Emeritus, died last week in Munich at the age of 76, an era in the history of sociology drew to a close. In a distinguished career of nearly half a century, Parsons, the first chairman of Harvard's Department of Social Relations, established sociology as a legitimate academic discipline that was simultaneously systematic and broad-ranging in scope. Through his translation of the German sociologist Max Weber's Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft [The Theory of Social and Economic Organization], and, later, through the development of his own "structural-functional" theory, Parsons sought to provide scholars...
...recent years Parsons, one of the fathers of American sociology, had suffered the assaults of an Oedipal rebellion. Many young sociologists found Marx's explicitly revolutionary analysis of modern capitalist social relations more appealing than Parson's more abstract, apolotical--and therefore, it seemed, inherently conservative--theory. Critics characterized Parson's convoluted prose style as opaque and his analyses as suggestive but inadequate, if not simply incorrect...
...stereotypes, yet it welcomes advertisers which use sexist stereotypes to sell their products. Two examples of such advertising which have appeared regularly in the Crimson are those for Pernod and for Busch Beer. The Crimson editors chose the most blatant example of exploitation of women, Playboy, to show their social concern; however, the more subtle sexual stereotypes portrayed in advertisements are more threatening to human rights, because they are more easily accepted...