Category: Social change

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udge and Mrs. Barrington Parker at a reception in Washington, D.C.

The Making of a Black Middle Class Family – The End of an Era

The end came suddenly so that although Rosa Victoria Jones Holloman had been ailing for over three years. It was something of a shook to learn that she had died. She had gotten frail and time had finally withered her. But although she remained bedridden

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“Vox Pop” on a Theory in Labor (IV)

My last three newsletters have discussed reader reaction to a preliminary article called “Catch-30 and Other Predictable Crises of Growing UP Adult” (New York Magazine, Feb. 18, 1974). The article advanced some controversial speculations: People do not fully outgrow their parents until well into their

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“Vox Pop” on a Theory in Labor (II)

My earlier newsletter described some of the mail generated by the adult development theory being researched under the auspices of the Alicia Patterson Foundation. As the letters continued to pour in after a preliminary article appeared I was fascinated to be able to detect the

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Students in Egypt After the October War

Cairo — Hisham met me in Lappis, the second most popular cafe and patisserie in Cairo, where the young, well-dressed middle class Egyptians — male and female — meet for ice cream and Turkish coffee and gateaus. Tall, with the broad-shouldered physique of a football