Word: socialized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...German impressionism. The result is that the characters become animated puppets and imbecilic caricatures of venality. They are robbed of the quality of vulnerable humanity that lies at the heart of the play, the play wright's mitigating sympathy for people subject to the coercive pressures of social custom and national temperament that sometimes erode individual integrity. The cast ably executes what Ciulei obviously wants, but did Gogol want...
...Yiddish-speaking immigrant families in Brooklyn or on Manhattan's Lower East Side. About 80% came from kosher homes and 90% later anglicized their names. Younger comedians are better educated, have less contact with Jewish ritual and are more likely to break away from traditional Jewish humor to deliver social or political messages in their acts. Says Janus: "The older ones changed their names and relieved their tensions with booze. The younger ones lie about their age and dabble with pills and coke...
Edward O. Wilson is probably the most controversial entomologist of all time. Three years ago, the Harvard professor published a mammoth academic tome, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, arguing that social behavior has a biological base. The first 26 chapters on organisms and lower animals attracted little attention, but the final, almost offhand chapter on humans touched off the furor. Wilson speculated that the sexual division of labor is genetically based, genes may exist for homosexuality and spite, and a "loose correlation" is likely between genetically determined traits and worldly success. For his pains, Wilson was heckled, picketed and denounced...
Still, Wilson's new discussion should mollify critics. On the subject of race, he says "evidence is strong that almost all differences between human societies are based on learning and social conditioning rather than heredity." Yet he sees some dissimilarities. For instance, he points to studies of newborns showing that Chinese American infants are far more placid than Caucasian American infants, presumably because of genetic differences...
...SOCIAL STANDING IN AMERICA: NEW DIMENSIONS OF CLASS by Richard P. Coleman and Lee Rainwater; Basic Books; 353 pages...