Word: youngquist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says Milwaukee Sociologist Wayne Youngquist: "There is decadence in our society, but it is an ebb, not a rising tide. Our institutions are healing, the age of moral ambiguity and experimentation is in decline...
...about 1,500 in the first five months of 1979, and party contributions are expected to increase $100,000 over previously projected figures for the year. "Dreyfus has brought in a large number of independents who were dissatisfied with the old tweedledum and tweedledee routine," says Milwaukee Sociologist Wayne Youngquist...
...need, a right. You've got to get out of the house, get away from the urban centers, and people are going to get away one way or another." Many Americans, he asserts, think of their car as "a second home-a castle." Sociologist Wayne Youngquist of Marquette University agrees: "The car is America's magic carpet, and it gives people freedom and autonomy-it's their little box where they have control over their environment. There is tremendous resistance to anything that threatens...
...most complicated problems of the new manners revolve around the almost endlessly subtle new variations on sexual roles. Says Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist: "There's a fair amount of ambiguity out there on the rules of behavior. Like dealing with blacks in the '60s, no one quite knows how to behave with women without giving offense." Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz tells an appalling story of taking out a woman who, when the check came and Dershowitz went to settle up, started griping: "Are you trying to dominate me?" Such women should spend the rest of their lives...
Most people today are in a state of "betweenity,' " says Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist. "They are caught between the new morality and the old. As long as they're not asked to make a statement, they'll ignore what's been going on. But they don't want to legitimate it." Youngquist also feels that while people are freer about private morality, they are becoming more conservative about the public and commercial exploitation of sex. Says he: "It's not that we have no rules, we have new rules. Kiddie porn...