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Young, Tom; Stevenson, Kate – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2011
Reflecting two students views on this summers riots, Tom Young locates the riots as a symptom of 20th century consumerism. Tracing the historical development of public relations and advertising with the rise of one of the 20th century's least known and most influential figures "Eddy Bernays", he asks the question--who's really to blame…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Group Behavior, Violence, Political Attitudes
Webster, David S. – 1997
This essay looks at three kinds of changes in American society over the period from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s. First, data from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) are used to measure trends in college freshmen's political identification, materialism, concern for law and order, and concern for helping others. In all these…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Change, College Freshmen