What Student Revolution?

Worldview ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 13-15
Author(s):  
Ronald J. Stupak
Keyword(s):  
Youth Culture ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Student Movement ◽  
American Society ◽  
New Generation

Many intellectuals sensed the dawning of a "new generation" in the activism, idealism, and moral pronouncements of the student movement of the 1960's. This movement seemed to be reaching fruition with the "revolutionary" tremors that the youth culture let loose on college campuses and throughout American society in the wake of Cambodia, Kent State, and Jackson State during the spring of 1970.But less than six months later, the "sounds of silence" on the college campuses became deadening, and the savants of the "new society" expressed disillusionment and bewilderment.

Explaining the Great American Crime Decline: A Review of Blumstein and Wallman, Goldberger and Rosenfeld, and Zimring

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (02) ◽  
pp. 489-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Barker
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Workshop Report ◽  
Crime Drop ◽  
Explanatory Factors ◽  
Crime Decline ◽  
American Society

This essay reviews three books as they document and explain the 1990s crime decline: Alfred Blumstein and Joel Wallman, eds., (2006) The Crime Drop in America; Arthur S. Goldberger and Richard Rosenfeld, eds., (2008) Understanding Crime Patterns: Workshop Report; and Franklin E. Zimring (2007), The Great American Crime Decline. It presents the empirical detail of the crime decline and examines the most commonly cited explanatory factors: imprisonment, policing, demography, and economic growth. It then suggests alternative lines of research in urban sociology—urban development, youth culture, and immigration—that may better explain the decline as the result of changes in the cultural and social fabric of American society, particularly in cities where the steepest declines occurred.

Standardization of HER2 Immunohistochemistry in Breast Cancer by Automated Quantitative Analysis

2009 ◽  
Vol 133 (9) ◽  
pp. 1413-1419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark D. Gustavson ◽  
Brian Bourke-Martin ◽  
Dylan Reilly ◽  
Melissa Cregger ◽  
Christine Williams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Clinical Oncology ◽  
Clinical Laboratory ◽  
Breast Cancers ◽  
Her2 Testing ◽  
Coefficients Of Variation ◽  
American Society ◽  
New Guidelines ◽  
Calibration Techniques ◽  
New Generation

Abstract Context.—There is critical need for standardization of HER2 immunohistochemistry testing in the clinical laboratory setting. Recently, the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the College of American Pathologists have submitted guidelines recommending that laboratories achieve 95% concordance between assays and observers for HER2 testing. Objective.—As a potential aid to pathologists for achieving these new guidelines, we have conducted an examination using automated quantitative analysis (AQUA analysis) to provide a standardized HER2 immunohistochemistry expression score across instruments (sites), operators, and staining runs. Design.—We analyzed HER2 expression by immunohistochemistry in a cohort (n = 669) of invasive breast cancers in tissue microarray format across different instruments (n = 3), operators (n = 3), and staining runs (n = 3). Using light source, instrument calibration techniques, and a new generation of image analysis software, we produced normalized AQUA scores for each parameter and examined their reproducibility. Results.—The average percent coefficients of variation across instruments, operators, and staining runs were 1.8%, 2.0%, and 5.1%, respectively. For positive/negative classification between parameters, concordance rates ranged from 94.5% to 99.3% for all cases. Differentially classified cases only occurred around the determined cut point, not over the entire distribution. Conclusions.—These data demonstrate that AQUA analysis can provide a standardized HER2 immunohistochemistry test that can meet current guidelines by the American Society of Clinical Oncology/College of American Pathologists. The use of AQUA analysis could allow for standardized and objective HER2 testing in clinical laboratories.

Japanese American Ethnicity

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takeyuki Tsuda
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
Bona Fide ◽  
Ethnic Heritage ◽  
Taiko Drumming ◽  
American Society ◽  
New Generation ◽  
American Ethnicity

This book explores the contemporary ethnic experiences of Japanese Americans from the second to the fourth generations and the extent to which they remain connected to their ancestral cultural heritage. As one of the oldest groups of Asian Americans in the United States, most Japanese Americans are culturally assimilated and well-integrated in mainstream American society. However, they continue to be racialized as culturally “Japanese” foreigners simply because of their Asian appearance in a multicultural America where racial minorities are expected to remain ethnically distinct. Different generations of Japanese Americans have responded to such pressures in ways that range from demands that their racial citizenship as bona fide Americans be recognized to a desire to maintain or recover their ethnic heritage and reconnect with their ancestral homeland. This ethnographic study argues that the ethnicity of immigrant-descent minorities does not simply follow a linear trajectory in which increasing assimilation gradually erodes the significance of ethnic heritage and identity over generations. While inheriting the assimilative patterns of previous generations, each new generation of Japanese Americans has also negotiated its own ethnic positionality in response to a confluence of various historical and contemporary factors. In addition, this book analyzes the performance of ethnic heritage through taiko drumming ensembles, as well as placing Japanese Americans in transnational and diasporic contexts.

The Construction of Whiteness

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
White Skin ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Communication Law ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ideological Influence ◽  
American Society ◽  
Construction Of Whiteness ◽  
New Generation

The Construction of Whiteness is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that examines the crucial intersection between whiteness as a privileged racial category and the various material practices (i.e. social, cultural, political, and economic) that underwrite its ideological influence in American society. In truth, whiteness has rarely been understood outside of academic circles as a problem to be examined, questioned, or interrogated. This is because the ubiquity of whiteness—its pervasive quality as an ideal that is at once omnipresent and invisible—makes it the very epitome of the social and cultural mainstream in America. Yet the undeniable relationship between whiteness and structures of inequality in this country necessitate a thorough interrogation of its formation, its representation, and its reproduction. The essays in this collection seek to do just that; that is, interrogate whiteness as a social construction, thereby revealing the underpinnings of narratives that fosters white skin as the ideal standard of beauty, intelligence, and power. The essays in this collection examine whiteness from several disciplinary perspectives, including history, communication, law, sociology, and literature. Its breadth and depth makes The Construction of Whiteness a standard anthology for introducing the critical study of race to a new generation of scholars, undergraduates, and graduate students. Moreover, the interdisciplinary approach of the collection will necessarily appeal to those with scholarly orientations in African and African American Studies, Ethnic Studies and Cultural Studies, Legal Studies, etc. This collection, therefore, makes an important contribution to the field of whiteness studies, broadly conceived, in its multifaceted connections to American history and culture.

scholarly journals Jak wyhaczyć kolesia - czyli o języku prasy młodzieżowej refleksje lingwistyczno-dydaktyczne

2009 ◽  
pp. 99-113
Author(s):  
Danuta Jastrzębska-Golonka ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Young Reader ◽  
The Past ◽  
Colloquial Language ◽  
The Media ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
New Generation

The article presents some issues connected with colloquialisms used in youth magazines. It introduces a comprehensive definition of a colloquial language, discusses factors shaping the media language, inter alia a new generation of journalists, media marketing assumptions, and features of youth gobbledygook. Moreover, the article analyzes the language of texts targeting a young reader and indicates the most essential features of a sphere of lexis, phraseology, wordformation and semantics on the basis of excerpted examples. It provides evidence for the changes that have occurred in the language of youth magazines in the past nine years (inter alia, English language expansion and vulgarisms). Next, it discusses the issues of youth culture and its linguistic implications as well as the issue of pop culture in school didactics.

scholarly journals Ọmọ Tí A Kò Kọ́: Globalization and Cultural Education among New Generation Nigerian Yorùbá

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Michael O. Afolayan
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Building Block ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Cultural Education ◽  
Indigenous Epistemology ◽  
New Generation

This essay critically explores the semantic, phonological and philosophical implications of the sound “kọ” (build) in the Yorùbá proverb  ́ Ọmọ tí a kò kọ́ ni yóò gbé ilé tí a kọ́ tà (the child that is not taught will eventually sell the house that is built). I will read the concept behind the sound as a multi-layered, multi-semantic meta-philosophical building block which not only showcases a serious aspect of indigenous epistemology and serving as a note of caution on Yorùbá education and its sociology of filial responsibilities, but could also be deployed to interrogate the emerging youth culture of the new generation Nigerian Yorùbá in the age of globalization. The essay draws on the semantic and philosophical content of kọ́ to articulate the argument that investments on material possession are counterproductive and antithetic to investment on human capital, the epitome of which is investing on one’s child/ ren. The essay concludes that the spirituality and permanency of the kọ of the ́ child’s mind is diagonally opposed to the superficiality and transience of the kọ́ of the building, a mere structure with limited value.

scholarly journals Engineering Education For Generation Z

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Moore ◽  
Carol Jones ◽  
Robert Scott Frazier
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
The Past ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
New Generation

Generation Z is gaining popularity as the name used to refer to those born beginning in the mid to late 1990s. This is the generation that follows the Millennials, and they are just starting to arrive on college campuses. Much attention has been paid to Millennials and their impact on society, and because of this Generation Z members are often lumped together with this older cohort. But Generation Z students are unique, and universities and colleges must prepare to meet the challenges of instructing this new generation. Engineering educators in particular are being challenged to adapt to the speed of technological change. Faculty must consider how to adjust to this new environment, including the changing needs and expectations of Generation Z students. This paper explores these topics. The first section will explore the concept of a generation and describe some of the attributes associated with Generation Z. The second section will review the development of engineering education in the United States and some of the major reforms that have occurred in the past 100 years. The last section will discuss potential changes in the classroom to try and address some of the characteristics of Generation Z students.

From Counterculture to Anticulture

1972 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 186-193
Author(s):  
Donald P. Costello
Keyword(s):  
Youth Culture ◽  
Cultural Events ◽  
Anthony Burgess ◽  
Rolling Stone ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
American Society

Three films circumscribe the counterculture of the last decade. These three films have as their subject the counterculture, and they themselves became cultural events. Woodstock, Easy Rider, and A Clockwork Orange: they define, warn, and predict. Woodstock (the event) and Woodstock (the film, which became the event for millions of the young) defined the counterculture of the 1960's. Of course, that definition did not begin the phenomenon of a youth culture that runs counter. Nor was Woodstock the first description of it. Anthony Burgess wrote his counterculture novel A Clockwork Orange over 10 years ago, and he has told us in a June 8, 1972, Rolling Stone article that he planned the book nearly 30 years ago. The droogs in that novel were some version of Teddy Boys or greasers or hipsters projected into an apocalyptic future: “The work merely describes certain tendencies I observed in Anglo-American society in 1961 (and even earlier).” Some of those tendencies, and several others, were exposed by the counterculture itself in Easy Rider, just before Woodstock. But Woodstock purified and refined the counterculture—and successfully made it self-conscious, mythologized it. And thus defined it.

School Segregation and Its Discontents

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanda Rushing
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Supreme Court Decision ◽  
Board Of Education ◽  
Civil Rights Era ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Shelby County ◽  
American Society ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Class Divisions

Few policies have affected American society as deeply as those related to the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education. Now, 60 years later, segregation persists along race and class divisions. This case study analysis of a merger that took place between 2010 and 2013 in Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee, one of the most politically contentious ones undertaken in the post–civil rights era, reveals a great deal about processes that sustain patterns of inequality. A new generation of Memphis leaders gives its perspective on education, social equality, and the future.

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