Culture against man / Jules Henry.
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TextPublisher: New York : Random House, [1963]Description: xiv, 495 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 309.173 21 H.J.C
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Introduction -- Contemporary America -- Advertising as a hilosophical system -- The United States and the Soviet Union : some economic and social consequences of a twentieth-entury nightmare -- Parents and children -- The teens -- Rome High School and its students -- Golden rule days : American schoolrooms -- Pathways to madness: families of psychotic children -- Human obsolescence.
This book looks at how American culture can work against the individual's (as well as society's) best interests. Examines the negative effects of advertising, technology, and the labor market. Provides analysis of the educational climate and processes of cultural and social conditioning in the 1950's.
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