Word: socialized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard Student Assembly Student & Social Services Comm...
...Brooke doesn't talk much about being black. "The very hardest kind of opponent for a black candidate," Thomas Pettigrew, professor of Social Psychology and Sociology, observes, "is a liberal white who is careful not to bring any racism into the campaign." Pettigrew, a one-time Brooke advisor, says the Senator runs relatively non-racial campaigns--he's not comfortable with the role of "the black Senator" that has been thrust upon him. Only when he fell sharply in the polls in his race against Peabody in 1966 did he give a talk about "being black--it wasn't blatant...
...loopholes in the tax laws. She also believes that there should be a strict separation of the services which are provided at the state and local levels. Cities would collect taxes solely for essential services, like fire and police, and the state would spend its tax dollars on social services. This would result in "a drastic reduction in property taxes," she said...
Child-abuse cases go through screeners like Belisle to an "assessment" worker, the job Belisle used to handle. Eventually they reach the various social workers and services (counseling, referral to day care centers and Alcoholics Anonymous in local neighborhoods). Having been abused as a child seems to lead to a repetition with one's own children. Beyond that, the causes of child abuse seem to be deep-rooted anger and frustration and an intolerable sense of physical or emotional inadequacy. Anger most of all "They don't know how to control it," says Belisle's co-worker...
...Massachusetts welfare administrators point out, the new program is responding quickly to more and more abuse cases. But the case workers, drowning in individual woe, do not find much personal reassurance in statistics. Nor do they have much faith in the capability of most of the social means available to cure repetitive cruelty to children. As a group, child defenders seem to be afflicted, in fact, by what is, or used to be, a most un-American emotion, a tormenting sense of the ultimate futility of even their most constructive efforts...