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Voicing social concern : the mass media, violence, pornography, censorship, organization, social science, the ultramultiversity / Otto N. Larsen ; afterword by Willima R. Catton, Jr.

Larsen, Otto N. (Author).

Summary:

This book records efforts to utilize public speaking to analyze serious social, educational, and scientific issuesóand to inform a variety of publics of their importance. Drawing from research, Otto Larsen responds to the broader challenge of linking research outcomes to possible policies and actions in four general areas: mass media effects and controls, problems of performance in professional organizations, efforts to gain scientific legitimacy for social and behavioral science, and the enhancement of teaching and learning in universities. This volume records the content of thirty-three talks given over a forty-year period from 1952 to 1993. -- Amazon

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  • ISBN: 0819194379
  • ISBN: 9780819194374
  • Physical Description: xi, 306 pages ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©1994.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Ch. 1. Trying to be Effective Vying to be Successful -- Ch. 2. Comic Books and Creative Leisure -- Ch. 3. From the Flow of Information to the Adoption of Innovation -- Ch. 4. How Good are the Polls? -- Ch. 5. Dialogue on Media Violence -- Ch. 6. Violence May be Hazardous to Your Health -- Ch. 7. What is the Question? What is the Question? -- Ch. 8. Predispositions on Pornography -- Ch. 9. The Anatomy of Pornography -- Ch. 10. Should Pornography Laws be Repealed? -- Ch. 11. Effects as a Factor in a No Win Game -- Ch. 12. How Far Can We Go? -- Ch. 13. Censors as Censors -- Ch. 14. Prurience, Offensiveness, Social Value -- Ch. 15. Are Sex and Violence Identical Twin? -- Ch. 16. The Year Sociology Stood Still -- Ch. 17. How Far from Providence? -- Ch. 18. Counsel to Council on Planning -- Ch. 19. The Year the Annual Meeting Stood Still -- Ch. 20. Mid-Life Crises Control -- Ch. 21. Mapping Human Relations -- Ch. 22. Turtles and the National Science Board -- Ch. 23. Innovation and Productivity -- Ch. 24. High Above Cayuga's Waters -- Ch. 25. Pain from Knowledge Gain in Social Science -- Ch. 26. An Overview of the Underdog -- Ch. 27. Terrible Parable on Politics of Science -- Ch. 28. The Future of Social Science Through a Rear View Mirror -- Ch. 29. Professorial Gamesmanship -- Ch. 30. The Ongoing Pursuit of Knowledge -- Ch. 31. The Foundations of George Lundberg -- Ch. 32. The Dimensions of Stuart C. Dodd -- Ch. 33. The Footprints of Tad Blalock -- Afterword: A Grand View of Social Science.

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