Society articles from May 1995

Society archives from May 1995

Reassessing the earth's population. (Symposium: Demographic Demons)
May 1, 1995... With fishers and farmers no longer able to expand output fast enough to keep up with population growth, it is time to reassess population policy. New information on the carrying capacity of both land and oceanic food systems argues for a basic...

International population policy. (International Conference on Population and Development, 1994, Cairo, Egypt)(Symposium: Demographic Demons)
May 1, 1995... The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development is now history. Even before the delegates left Cairo there was a rush to proclaim the meeting a triumph. Despite the fact that the abortion controversy captured the daily headlines...

Leaving home. (refugees and their impact on world demographics)(Symposium: Demographic Demons)
May 1, 1995... The world's refugee population has risen to 23 million people living outside their countries of origin. In 1989, the figure was 15 million, and as recently as the mid-seventies, only about 2.5 million people could claim refugee status--about...

What is population policy?(Symposium: Demographic Demons)
May 1, 1995... Just what is "population policy"? Immigration, public health, and communication policies have always had demographic effects. To the extent that individuals make calculations about future childbearing on the basis of their current and expected...

Idleness and lawlessness in the therapeutic state. (schizophrenia)
May 1, 1995... From an economic point of view, persons may be divided into two groups, producers and parasites. Producers provide for their own needs by their labor or capital. Parasites do not. Some, for example infants and indigents, are unable to support...

A nation of meddlers. (Americans' need to proscribe for others)
May 1, 1995... There was a time long ago when the phrase "it's none of your business" meant something. Not any more. A boorish and persistent army of meddlers, equipped with righteous indignation and a formidable array of theories and technologies, has made...

The velvet prison and the closed academy. (National Endowment for the Arts, and federal funding of arts)
May 1, 1995... Much of the criticism of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) comes from those who are outraged by some of its controversial grants. Citizens irate over their tax dollars going to support Joel-Peter Witkin's photographs of corpse...

Jews in Germany today.(how they see themselves)
May 1, 1995... How do non-Jewish West Germans see their Jewish compatriots? How do West German Jews think their non-Jewish neighbors see them? And how do West German Jews see themselves? These three questions encompass the topic "Anti-Semitism: Its Subjects...

The socialization of desire. (biographical essay on Lester Frank Ward, social historian)
May 1, 1995... Lester Frank Ward holds a curious position in the history of American social thought, one that is at once securely founded and extraordinarily cloudy in its particulars, like a landmark obscured by fog. His reputation largely hangs upon his...

"Townies": the backs behind the circus.(Photo Essay)
May 1, 1995... Foreword Circus Vargas is the last major "mud-show" (a circus which uses a tent). In the past, when the circus came to town, the tent crew scoured the local rescue missions to find laborers. Today, however, homeless and jobless flock to the...

The Homeless.
May 1, 1995... Before the 1980s, homelessness was a social problem confined geographically to urban skid row neighborhoods of missions and flophouses and socially to old white single men. In the 1980s, homelessness grew dramatically and spread beyond those...

Post-Capitalist Society.
May 1, 1995... Peter F. Drucker has been widely read ever since his End of Economic Man was published in 1939. His management books and his analyses of economics and society have been translated into more than twenty languages. He has also published two...

Weathering the Storm: Working-Class Families from the Industrial Revolution to the Fertility Decline.
May 1, 1995... This sequel to Wally Seccombe's Millennium of Family Change: Feudalism to Capitalism in Northwestern Europe (published in 1992) continues the history of working-class families in northwestern Europe (primarily England) into the present....

The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard.
May 1, 1995... Stories of $600 toilet seats and $400 hammers have plagued Pentagon procurement for more than a decade. By themselves such excesses are trivial; the question is whether they reflect deeper problems in the acquisition system; the defense...

Running For President: The Candidates and Their Images: 1789-1896 (Volume One).
May 1, 1995... Over the past two decades, first Macmillan and then Simon & Schuster, developed a group of wide-ranging encyclopedias and reference works that appeal to the sort of specialized markets that characterize America today. From multi-volumed works...

Running for President: The Candidates and Their Images: 1900-1992 (Volume Two).
May 1, 1995... Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. editor; and Fred L. Israel and David J. Frent, associate editors. New York: Simon & Schuster Paramount Communications Company, 1994. 458 printed and illustrated pages. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. editor; and Fred L....