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On the Need for More Analysis and the Instruments for Its Advancement
Behavioral Science, Vol. 14, No. 1 (January 1969), p. 47-50.
Swords, Ploughshares and P.R.
On Sept. 26, 1968 - the date is important - Secretary of Defense Clark M. Clifford declared that he was mobilizing the resources of the defense establishment in a determined attack on some of the nations basic domestic problems.
Basic Human Needs: Alienation and Inauthenticity
This article presents a case for the usefullness of the concept of basic human needs.
America’s Alienated Majority
The man moving into the White House next January will be mistaken if he assumes it is merely the Left, students, and intellectuals who are deeply alienated from the American political system.
On Public Affairs Statements of Professional Associations
The basic premise I would like to take as my starting point is that, as a general rule, a professional association tries not to comment on public affairs.
Shortcuts to Social Change
“Shortcuts to Social Change,” The Public Interest, No. 12 (Summer 1968), pp. 40-51. Reprinted in Current (October 1968), pp.
Societal Guidance: A Key to Macro-Sociology
Over the next twenty years, the United States will be brought, in one way or another, to attend more fully to its mounting social problems.
Confessions of a Professor Caught in a Revolution
It was during last spring's student demonstration at Columbia University that, for the first time in 10 years, I became involved in university committee work, which I loathe. It really caught up with me; I ended by chairing a "reform" committee and spending at least 130 hours--in one month--meeting with students and colleagues at Columbia, almost a full-time job. I never realized that revolutions involve so much talk.
Sex Control, Science, and Society
Using various techniques developed as a result of fertility research, scientists are experimenting with the possibility of sex control, the ability to determine whether the newborn infant will be a
Transitional Radicals
“Transitional Radicals,” Psychiatry and Social Science Review 2 (September 1968), pp. 15-18. (Kenneth Keniston, Young Radicals.)
Mobilization as a Macrosociological Concept
Mobalization is a process in which a social unit gains relatively rapidly in control of resources it previously did not control.
The Impact of the Social Sciences
“The Impact of the Social Sciences,” Harvard Educational Review 38, No. 3 (Summer 1968), pp. 578-582. (Kenneth Boulding, The Impact of the Social Sciences.)
Toward a Theory of Guided Societal Change
If we observe a society faced with a problem--poverty, riots, unsafe cars--and formulating a program to deal with it, we can be sure that 9 times out of 10 the problem will not be solved.
Very Large Number of Independent Variables
“A Very Large Number of Independent Variables,” Science 160, No. 3828 (May 10, 1968), pp. 645-647. (W.J.M. Mackenzie, Politics and Social Science.)
Making Riots Mandatory
On the face of it, the report of the President’s Commission on Civil Disorders should be warmly applauded by any citizen who is concerned with civiI rights, social justice, and the welfare of their country.
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