Word: functional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must quit worrying whether it is the 'right thing' to suport the black colleges." the article said. "They are here to stay because, poor though they are, they are performing a critical function as educational insti utions and as centers of community strength...
Monro listed Miles' central role in the Birmingham Head Start program, in retraining programs for industrial workes, in the fight against illiteracy among local adults, and in the regional VISTA program to illustrate the way in which the black colleges can perform a second function as centers for the development of institutional strength among black people...
Finally, people on the Left should take advantage of attacks against imperialist institutions to explain the function of those institutions. A self-indulgent criticism of all tactics but one's own is usually a retreat rather than an advance...
...DEVELOPMENT Advisory Service is a much more important function of the Center. It has been condemned by radicals. Responding to this criticism of its efforts to foster economic development, Vernon said the main consideration in planning economic growth should be, "Is there something you can do for the people despite the character of the government?" He points to Mexico and Venezuela as examples of nations where the citizens have benefited from economic development. These countries have "marked income mal-distribution," Vernon admitted, "but there has been marked improvement in welfare" throughout society in both countries...
...this kind of social science appears in a different light if the given society, while remaining the frame of reference, becomes the object of a critical theory which aims at the very structure of this society, present in all particular facts and conditions and determining their place and function...