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...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...
...million families will be on U.S. roads this summer, up 4% over last year. Jimmy Carter's warnings about fuel conservation have, if anything, merely persuaded Americans that they had better take their trips now while there is still enough gas to go around. Says Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist: "There's a tremendous resistance to anything that threatens the use of the car. The reaction to Carter's proposed five-cents-a-gallon tax was almost violent. The car is America's magic carpet and gives people freedom and autonomy. It's their little box where they have control...
When Midwesterners did get around to talking about Carter, most of them sounded upbeat. Said Donald Percy, a vice president at the University of Wisconsin: "Our mood now is one of quiet expectancy." Still, as Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist pointed out, Carter "doesn't have a great reservoir of partisan feeling to draw on as a kind of cushion. He's going to have to produce." Added Theologian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago: "A lot of married couples forgo the honeymoon cruise and take up housekeeping right away. He's going to have...