Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Perrucci, Robert
2. Pilisuk, Marc

Description

1. xiv, 689 pages; 21 cm

Summary

1. Compilation of writings on problems stemming from social change in the USA - covers the sociological aspects and psychological aspects of military and technological change, automation, individualism, human rights (incl. Of the Black minority groups), poverty eradication programmes, etc.

Subject

1. Since 1945
2. Social conditions
3. social change
4. automation
5. Blacks
6. human rights
7. individualism
8. minority group
9. poverty
10. psychological aspect
11. sociological aspect
12. technological change
13. changement social
14. aspect psychologique
15. aspect sociologique
16. automatisation
17. changement technologique
18. droits de l'homme
19. groupe minoritaire
20. individualisme
21. Noirs
22. pauvreté
23. cambio social
24. aspecto psicológico
25. aspecto sociológico
26. automatización
27. cambio tecnológico
28. derechos humanos
29. grupo minoritario
30. individualismo
31. negros
32. pobreza
33. United States > Social conditions > 1945-
34. United States
35. USA
36. Etats-Unis
37. Estados Unidos

Contents

1. pt. 1. Technological militarism / -- pt. 2. Cybernation / -- pt. 3. Human rights / -- pt. 4. The revolution in expression.
2. Introduction : social problems and the Triple Revolution -- pt. 1. Technological militarism. 1. Social and psychological consequences of nuclear capabilities. The effects of a 20-megaton bomb / Scientists' Committee for Radiation Information ; Dehumanization : a composite psychological defense in relation to modern war / Viola W. Bernard, Perry Ottenberg, and Fritz Redl ; The Cold War in American life / J. William Fulbright. 2. Military ideology and influence in society. Chicken à la Kahn / Anatol Rapoport ; Remarks before the Economic Club of New York / Robert S. McNamara ; Is there a military industrial complex which prevents peace? : consensus and countervailing power in pluralistic systems / Marc Pilisuk and Thomas Hayden ; On the draft / Richard Flacks, Florence Howe, and Paul Lauter. 3. Pax Americana, the American empire and the third world. The politics of ecology / Aldous Huxley ; The counterrevolutionary reflex / Conor Cruise O'Brien ; The professor, the policeman and the peasant / Martin Nicolaus ; The life and death of Project Camelot / Irving Louis Horowitz. -- pt. 2. Cybernation. 4. Automation : processes and politics / Robert Lekachman ; Some speculations on the social impact of technology / Donald N. Michael ; American needs and limits on resources : the priorities problem / Seymour Melman ; The new partnership : Big Government and Big Business / Richard J. Barber ; 5. The depersonalized. The myth of the happy worker / Harvey Swados ; Psychological miscarriage : an end to mother love / Marian Gennaria Morris ; The permanent poor : the lesson of Eastern Kentucky / Harry M. Caudill. 6. People and planned communities. The failure of urban renewal : a critique and some proposals / Herbert J. Gans ; Segregation, subsidies and megalopolis / Bill Weissbourd ; Even the saints cry / Oscar Lewis. 7. Decision control. The waste makers / Vance Packard ; Toward the therapeutic state / Thomas S. Szasz. ; Some issues concerning the control of human behavior : a symposium / Carl R. Rogers and B. F. Skinner ; The power of systems and systems of power / Robert Boguslaw ; NSA and the CIA / Sol Stern -- pt. 3. Human rights. 8. Poverty and inequality. Nightmare in Mississippi / Peter Weiss ; The white northerner : pride and prejudice / Robert Coles ; Slaves for rent : the shame of American farming / Truman Moore ; The President and the Negro : the moment lost / Daniel P. Moynihan ; The Negro family and the Moynihan Report / Laura Carper ; The Watts Manifesto and the McCone Report / Bayard Rustin ; 9. Programs , power, and the poor. Poverty and inequality in America : implications for the social services / S. M. Miller ; An ideology of school withdrawal / Edgar Z. Friedenberg ; The child development group of Mississippi : a report from a hot sector of the quiet front in the war on poverty / Tom Levin ; Of, by, and for the poor / Andrew Kopkind. 10. Dispensing justice and dignity. Covert contingencies in the right to the assistance of counsel / Abraham S. Blumbert ; Coercion and compliance : the psychology of police confessions / Philip G. Zimbardo ; Budgeting and the poor : a view from the bottom / Sherman Barr ; Life on ADC : budgets of despair / Charles Lebeaux. 11. Dissent and social control. Good people and dirty work / Everett C. Hughes ; Dissent in Wilkinson v. United States / Hugo L. Black ; Letter from Birmingham Jain / Martin Luther King ; The bus boycott in Montgomery / L.D. Reddick. -- pt. 4. The revolution in expression. 12. The fourth revolution and its critics. The empty society / Paul Goodman ; Let us shape the future / Carl Oglesby ; Toward black liberation / Stokely Carmichael ; Realism in political protest / George Grant ; The mystical militants / Michael Harrington.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographies.