Community in a Dynamic Society: Multicultural Education in the 21st Century

Fall 2009

Table of Contents

Topic One: The Journey to Individuality

• The Nature-Nurture Controversy
• Phylogenetic Aptitudes and Biological Drives
• Capacities: Physical, Emotional, and Intellectual

Topic Two: Personality Traits

• Social Attitudes
• Groups and Their Power
• Equipment for Orientation

Topic Three: Culture: The Human Enterprise

• I. The Nature of Culture
• 1. The Physical and the Cultural
• 2. The Tool and Culture
• 3. Definition of Culture
• II. Symbolism and Culture
• 1. Extra-Organic Character of Culture
• 2. Symbolic Character of Culture
• III. The Universality and Continuity of Culture
• 1. Its Universal Character
• 2. Its Continuity
• IV. The Accumulative and Integrative Qualities of Culture
• 1. Blending the Old and New
• 2. Gratifying and Adaptive Characteristics
• V. The Content of Culture
• 1. Traits, Behavior Patterns, and Values
• A. The Inventory Approach
• B. The Category Approach
• C. The Approach through Values or Themes
• 2. Characteristics of an Individual Culture
• A. It's Association with a Society
• B. A Culture as a Selection of Elements
• C. The Dynamic Qualities of a Culture

Topic Four: The American Family: Past and Present

• I. Problems in Family Life
• 1. What about Our Value System?
• 2. Are Critics of Our Family Life Justified?
• II. Universal and Variant Values
• 1. Universal Values and the Family
• 2. Variant Values
• A. Man and Nature
• B. Emphasis on Time
• C. Who Is To Be Esteemed?
• D. Concepts of Good and Evil
• E. Relationships of Individuals
• III. The Mexican Family Type
• IV. The American Family Viewed Historically
• 1. Individualism and the Patriarchal Family
• 2. Our Colonial Heritage
• 3. Frontier and Farm, Industrialization and Urbanization
• V. The Modern American Family
• 1. The Dominant Family Type and Its Strains
• 2. The Family's Place in the Total System

Topic Five: Functions of the Family

• The Origin of the Family
• The Role of the Family in Modern Society
• The Family as a Socializing Agency
• Transmitting Cultural Heritage
• An Outlet for Expression of Personality
• Preserving Class and Social Distinctions

Topic Six: Individual Adjustments Within the Family

• Courtship
• Marriage
• Personality Adjustments Between Husband and Wife
• Divorce and Desertion

Topic Seven: The Changing Family

• The Primitive Family
• The Early Roman Family
• The Family During the Feudal Period
• The Family and the Social Order
• Dynamic Society and the Modern Family
• The Size of the Family
• The Family's Economic Functions
• The Family's Educational Functions
• The Family's Protective Functions
• The Family's Recreational Function
• The Family's Personality Functions
• Husband-Wife Relationships
• The Future of the Family

Topic Eight: The Changing Status of Women

Women in America

• I. The Feminine Character
• 1. What the Analysts Say
• 2. "Feminine Traits" and Their Function
• II. Components of the Feminine Role
• 1. Domesticity in a Changing World
• 2. The Influence of Industrialization
• 3. The Feminist Crusades
• 4. Frontier Life and the Impact of War
• III. Modern Woman within the Home
• 1. The Prestige Value of Domesticity
• 2. What Are the Bases of Her Confusion?
• IV. Modern Woman outside the Home
• 1. Women and Jobs
• 2. Participation in Community Activities
• 3. Women As Culture-Bearers
• 4. Whiling Away the Hours
• V. American Women of the Future
• 1. Broadening the American Value System
• 2. The Re-evaluation of Domestic Work
• 3. Women in the Occupations

Topic Nine: Marriage and Motherhood

Marriage And Motherhood

• I. Psychological Growth
• 1. Growth and Conflicts
• 2. Emotional Maturity
• 3. Social Attitudes
• II. Stable Marriage
• 1. Confidence Bred by Marriage
• 2. Individuality and Equality
• 3. Fusion of Interest
• III. The Past and Present
• 1. Empty Shells
• 2. Feminine and Masculine Roles
• 3. Parental Approval
• IV. Motherhood
• 1. A United Family
• 2. There Are Bottles!
• V. Beyond Motherhood
• 1. Freedom or Slavery?
• 2. Emancipation
• 3. A Solution?

Topic Ten: Marriage and Divorce

Divorce

• I. Marital Stumbling Blocks
• 1. Marriage Is Workable for Normal People
• 2. The Basis on Which Neurosis Rests
• II. Neurotic Manifestations
• 1. Gluttons for Punishment
• 2. The Results of Neurosis in Marriage
• 3. Differences between Normality and Neurosis
• III. Mortality-List of Marriages
• 1. Infidelity
• 2. "Injustice-Collecting"
• 3. Sexual Disturbances
• 4. Jealousy
• 5. Addiction and Psychopathy
• 6. "Mental Cruelty."
• IV Conquering the Inner Enemies of Marriage
• 1. The Unconscious Basis for Marriage
• 2. The Myth of Innocent Victims
• 3. "How Can I Become a Better Wife?"

Topic Eleven: The Non-genetic Family Groups

• Social Groups
• Likeness Groups
• Publics
• Purpose Groups
• Racial and Ethnic Groups
• Country and City Groups
• Age Groups

Topic Twelve: Education: Medium Of Survival?

Traditional American Education

• I. Education and the Educators
• 1. Education - a Lifelong Process
2. Replacement of Environmental Teaching
• A. The Necessity of Education for Social Life
• B. A Broad Conception of Education
• 3. What Is a "Teacher"?
• 4. Why Do Teachers Teach?
• II. The Content of Education
• 1. Informal and Formal Education Defined
• 2. Supplementing Society's Informal Education
• III. The Rise of Formal Education
• 1. How Formal Schools Vary
• 2. Ancient Practices
• 3. Medieval Practices
• 4. Early American Schools
• IV. Our American Schools of Today
• 1. The Rise of Urban Schools
• 2. What Is the State's Responsibility?
• V. School and the Business of Living
• 1. Pitfalls in Textbooks
• 2. Conservatives: The Public and the Teacher
• 3. The Need for a Scientific Approach

Nontraditional Education

• I. Literate and Nonliterate Education Compared
• 1. Educational Differences
• 2. Educational Similarities-Primitive and Modern
• 3. Why Study Education in Nonliterate Societies?
• II. How the Child Learns
• 1. Sharing Adult Activities: Informal Education
• 2. The Adult as a Teacher: Formal Education
• 3. Formal Education, a Primitive Requisite
• III. Marriage and Parenthood
• 1. The Importance of Marriage and Child-Bearing
• 2. Responsibilities during Pregnancy and Early Parent
• 3. Helping Children Learn To Walk and Talk
• IV. Training during Childhood
• 1. Keeping Children from Harm
• 2. Separating Boys' and Girls' Activities
• 3. Imitating Adult Activities
• 4. Punishment and Storytelling

Topic Thirteen: Occupational Groups

• Farmers and Workers
• Labor

Topic Fourteen: The Middle Class

• The Middle Class
• Goods Today Out of Tomorrow's Income
• Middle Class Contentment
• Middle Class Gloom
• Growth of Big Business
• Middle Class Reactions
• Consumerism
• Consumer Cooperatives
• Cooperatives in the United States

Topic Fifteen: The Community

• The City Pattern
• City Planning
• The Good Community
• Schools and the Good Community
• Crime and the Good Community