Word: sociologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Booth Tarkington were to write Seventeen today," says a Connecticut high school English teacher, "he'd have to call it Twelve." Sociologist Reuel Denney notes with fascination the shopping list of a twelve-year-old suburban girl: "Water pistol, brassiere, permanent." When a 16-year-old Louisville boy, as a practical joke, gravely announced at dinner that his girl friend was pregnant, the first reaction of the stunned family came from the boy's younger brother, 13. "My God," he said. "You'll lose your allowance...
...interesting, informed and even intellectual when barely out of childhood, young kids all over the U.S. are pulling down the entry age to teendom. Even as they do, the affluent society is pushing up the average age of school leaving. The lengthened span of teen-agery-what Johns Hopkins Sociologist James Coleman calls "the coming earlier to social maturity while having to spend a considerably longer period in a dependent role"-is further fattened by a growth rate of teen-age population that is four times as high as the U.S. average. The country now has 24 million people aged...
...word invented in the U.S. and popularized scarcely 25 years ago to supplant such earlier images as the carefree Huck Finn type, the early-to-work Horatio Alger model and the heavily psychological "adolescent" of three decades back. It was the culmination of the process by which, as Sociologist Denney points out, the U.S. became the first nation to transform children from "a family asset as labor to a family liability as student-consumer." That liability is one that the U.S. seems willing to afford; it has created a flourishing subculture whose goals, heroes, styles and customs...
...Theirs." Many another Texan apparently shares Brown's concern. "People no longer identify with the law," says Sociologist O. Z. White of San Antonio's Trinity University. "The old-timer felt that every trial was his-he was the people. Now it is 'their' trial, not 'ours.' " Atlanta's Superior Court Judge Luther Alverson even suggests that declining trial attendance may contribute to rising crime. "I do not think it is good for people to be removed from the realities of what goes on from day to day in our cities...
...Brazilian sociologist began his lecture by defining his concept of Lusotropl-calism-the common culture and civilization which was the unique creation of Portuguese colonists in tropical areas of Latin America and Africa...