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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED068598 AUTHOR: Lipset, Seymour Martin
TITLE: Group Life in America: A Task Force Report.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1972
NOTE: 120 p.
AVAILABILITY: Inst. of Human Relations, American Jewish
Committee, 165 East 56 Street, New York, N.Y. 10022 ($1.50)
ABSTRACT: Contents of this book include discussions of the
following topics: (1) issues for the 1970s (redefining
American pluralism); (2) historic pattern of change (rise
and fall of repressive movements); (3) unity in the post-war
consensus (racial equality and black
militancy; demand for group rights; anti-war and other
protests; white ethnicity revitalized; failure of backlash
politics; and attitudes toward political and social
institutions); (5) the urban crisis; (6) decline of WASP
provincial; (7) the democratic coalition: stable or broken
(national coalitions; municipal and state coalitions; shifts
coalition; anti-Catholicism of
upper class liberals); (8) crisis of liberalism and
political situation of American Jewry (declining Jewish
political influence?; Jews and blacks; Jews and
conservatives; cleavages in the Jewish community); (9)
economic issues and group tensions (income distribution in
the U.S.; recomposing the GNP: changing national priorities;
education (intellectuals and social
protest of the left; education, integration, and black
upward mobility; "the culture of poverty": attack on the
slums; busing; community control of schools; public support
financing higher education); and,
(11) meritocracy versus quotas (guidelines for affirmative
action). (JM)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Black-Power; Civil-Rights; Economic-Change;
Change; Employment-Problems; Ethnic-Groups;
Racial-Discrimination; Social-Change; Social-Discrimination;
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Ethnic-Relations; *Group-Status; *Jews-;
*Minority-Groups; *Political-Issues
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