Word: sociopsychologist
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...year's books, TV, movies, music and theater, it's possible to see deeply and clearly into the hearts and minds, the secret dreams and fears of a nation. Until you try explaining The Ketchup Song (Hey Hah). Page 251 of the pop-culture-sociopsychologist's handbook tells us that we must have used this novelty tune as an escape from relentless bad news amid war and recession. O.K., so what did that make Macarena in 1996? If America's fortunes have changed since 1999, why hasn't Harry Potter's popularity? And can any blather about America's longing...
Author of a novel called Son of Han, Sociopsychologist La Piere writes with more color and smoothness than most of his colleagues, draws much of his material from newspapers and magazines. Hence, he scrutinizes a number of phenomena which are rarely mentioned in scientific books-Fred Astaire and Jessie Matthews, the chain-letter craze, the Big Apple, Fashion Stylist Adrian of Hollywood, Variety. He turns a coldly skeptical and sardonic eye on the standard apologies for capitalism, also on the ideologies of democracy ("the safest votes, as every practical politician knows, are those which have been 'bought...
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