The Women\u27s Liberation Movement and Its Various Impacts on American Men

Writing in 1974 about women and athletics 26 years ahead in the year 2000 journalist Lucinda Franks foresees a sexist backlash she tags the New Male Chauvinist Movement. It all begins with a rebirth of the Age of Reason which, after 1980, includes a new celebration of the humanizing potentialities of sport and games. Women, as prime agents of this pivotal cultural reform, will have advanced so fast and so far in competitive and non-competitive athletics that the Total Human has been born and the average body is no longer just a neglected dormitory for the mind. There is an incredulous quality to the memories women have 26 years from now of the dreary 1970\u27s-- ...when there were no integrated golf and baseball teams, when women athletics were not vying for football scholarships, when indeed it was not known that women are capable of being as strong pound-for-pound as men and, with equally strenuous training, can match or surpass them in many sports. What is even more, women, exhilarated with their new sense of physical power, have begun the slow process of throwing over the so-called feminity game -- luring, baiting, and netting a husband--in favor of certain far simpler and far more honest ways of relating with men

The Women\u27s Liberation Movement and Its Various Impacts on American Men

Writing in 1974 about women and athletics 26 years ahead in the year 2000 journalist Lucinda Franks foresees a sexist backlash she tags the New Male Chauvinist Movement. It all begins with a rebirth of the Age of Reason which, after 1980, includes a new celebration of the humanizing potentialities of sport and games. Women, as prime agents of this pivotal cultural reform, will have advanced so fast and so far in competitive and non-competitive athletics that the Total Human has been born and the average body is no longer just a neglected dormitory for the mind. There is an incredulous quality to the memories women have 26 years from now of the dreary 1970\u27s-- ...when there were no integrated golf and baseball teams, when women athletics were not vying for football scholarships, when indeed it was not known that women are capable of being as strong pound-for-pound as men and, with equally strenuous training, can match or surpass them in many sports. What is even more, women, exhilarated with their new sense of physical power, have begun the slow process of throwing over the so-called feminity game -- luring, baiting, and netting a husband--in favor of certain far simpler and far more honest ways of relating with men

Retirees as Technoguides: A New Role as Shapers and Makers of the Future

Retirees nowadays serve in many out-of-the-home roles that make astute use of their maturity, their discretion time, and their flexibility about compensation: Large numbers help as paid or voluntary aides in day care centers, health fairs, home health care, hospice programs, nursing homes, and the vital like. A brand new role that might appeal to many would have them learn and practice the craft of technology assessment and the process of technology diffusion: With these tools retirees could serve as technoguides, or paid or voluntary aides in the testing, evaluating, and adapting of new products and services to the needs of older Americans

New Towns and Social Welfare Prospects: 1975 - 2000 A.D.

America\u27s 15 HUD-aided new towns are mired in such serious financial problems as to make likely the emphatic close of the 1968-1974 Golden Age of modern new town development. Contrary, however, to present-day indications there is reason to expect a revival of new town prospects in the late 1970\u27s, and social welfare components may be center stage in the matter. There is no gainsaying the seriousness of the 1975 collapse of the American new towns movement: HUD, for example, from a prior commitment to approving at least ten projects a year between 1968 and 2000 A.D. is now refusing to even accept applications from would-be developers. Jonathan, Minnesota, is reputedly up for sale; Riverton, New York moves in and out of default on its financial obligations; and even the Glamour Child of them all, Columbia, Maryland, has been compelled to arrange financial reorganization. UDC\u27s much-heralded Roosevelt Island project has lost both its educational innovation edge, and its access to LMIH subsidization monies, while elsewhere in the nation\u27s 100 or so new towns plans for social welfare advances are quietly folded away in deep drawers

2006 Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology: Acceptance remarks by Art Shostak

Acceptance speech given at the 2006 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Finding solutions for the future

Union Futures, pp. 23-28

Union Administrative Practices: A Comparative Analysis

In response to growing challenges, many labor organizations are reevaluating themselves in an effort to become more efficient and effective. Their efforts, however, are limited by their frames of reference. Seldom do unions compare practices across labor movements. To expand these frames of reference we compare union administrative practices in three countries: Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Two specific areas of union administration are examined — human resource/personnel practices and strategic planning. Results from these countries are presented and analyzed to identify and explain similarities and differences