The Agenda - Grinding America Down - YouTube
The Agenda - Grinding America Down
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Why Your Boyfriend Won't Propose | Hannah Seligson
Why Your Boyfriend Won't Propose | Hannah Seligson
As young women trenching through the dating jungle of men who are in no hurry to say “I do,” what’s the answer? Hymowitz quotes Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, who has written prolifically on this topic and is the author of Why Are There No Good Men Left. Whitehead says that cohabitation encourages this behavior. “[Men] get the benefits of a wife without shouldering the reciprocal obligations of a husband.”
Monday, July 18, 2011
Modern-Marriage Report: Not as Necessary Yet Still Desired - TIME
Modern-Marriage Report: Not as Necessary Yet Still Desired - TIME
But cohabitation among the economically blessed is a whole different ball game than it is among the struggling. For most college-educated couples, living together is like a warm-up run before the marital marathon. They work out a few of the kinks and do a bit of house-training and eventually get married and have kids. Those without a college degree, says Cherlin, tend to do it the other way around — move in together, have kids and then aim for the altar. And children, as Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston discovered, change everything.
Modern-Marriage Report: Not as Necessary Yet Still Desired - TIME
Modern-Marriage Report: Not as Necessary Yet Still Desired - TIME
Promising publicly to be someone's partner for life used to be something people did to lay the foundation of their independent life. It was the demarcation of adulthood. Now it's more of a finishing touch, the last brick in the edifice, sociologists believe. "Marriage is the capstone for both the college-educated and the less well educated," says Johns Hopkins' Cherlin. "The college-educated wait until they're finished with their education and their careers are launched. The less educated wait until they feel comfortable financially."
Healthcare System Ratings: U.S., Great Britain, Canada
Healthcare System Ratings: U.S., Great Britain, Canada
The views of Americans on the quality of medical care in their country are not overly different -- 48% of Americans, 52% of Canadians, and 42% of Britons say they are satisfied. However, Americans are slightly more likely than Canadians or Britons to rate this issue at one extreme or the other. The proportion of respondents who are very (as opposed to somewhat) satisfied with the quality of healthcare in the United States is 17%, while the proportion who are very dissatisfied is 26% -- so 43% of Americans fall at the extremes of this scale. In the other two countries, the middle ground of "somewhat" satisfied or dissatisfied respondents tends to be larger. In Canada, 13% are very satisfied, while 22% are very dissatisfied -- so 35% of the public is at the extremes. In Great Britain, 11% are very satisfied, while 23% are very dissatisfied -- a total of 34% is at the extremes.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Book Review: Milner, Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids
Book Review: Milner, Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids
Milner then takes this analysis outside of schools, and links the status preoccupations of teenagers to the development and maintenance of consumer capitalism. High school status systems play an important role in socializing people to be concerned with the way in which their status is displayed through the acquisition of commodities. Yet while teenagers and advertisers are often to blame for adolescents' quest for designer jeans, cell phones and cars, Milner reminds us that schooling officials, parents and, most importantly, America's culture of consumerism are also to blame. In a culture that emphasizes its populace’s role as consumers (remember when Americans were told to ‘shop' after 9/11?), and producers (e.g. divorce has less of a stigma than getting fired) other values are submerged.
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