Word: system
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...notable feature of the American system in comparison to Western European or Communist countries, however, is not how heavy the influence of the established system is, but how much flexibility there is within it. Even though some branches of government and some donors have a narrow definition of their interest, the availability of such support frees up other funds for less popular research areas. A research institution should therefore not be tested by whether it accepts funds that are limited to particular uses, but by the quality of its total product...
...conclusion, I would like to suggest a somewhat different set of propositions. It seems to me that the main thrust of radical criticism should be directed toward making social science more responsive to a variety of social needs. The academic system works with a greater lag in teaching than in research. since the curriculum tends to be modified only after research findings have been sifted and evaluated by the profession. The research group is therefore both the key to change and the vehicle by which its results are propagated. The persuasiveness of the conclusions to other scientists provide the means...
Today men worry and rage against each other over such questions, but no many men like myself, one answer is clear. The American economic system of corporate capitalism, reinforced by governmental bureaucracies, has a systematic tendency toward intervention, both military and political, in other countries. More generally, it has a systematic tendency toward economic exploitation, political corruption, social dislocation, environmental destruction, and individual alienation, both at home and abroad...
...Vietnamese war has indeed revealed corporate America in all its ghastly infirmity and, I would add, its systemic cruelty. The American economic system is gradually destroying us; in the end our salvation may lie in our destroying...
...length and the depth necessary to make them more than mere ephemeral desert flowers in the realm of the mind. Among the great purposes of the university is to be the refuge and the strength of a critical theory of society. Of course, in the existing socio-economic system, radical scholars will form only a part of any university and probably a small part at that...