Word: gitlin
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...lowest common denominators of public interests." Other seers are as depressed as Gilder is sunny. "I worry seriously about a world in which it's too easy to simply flip around the dial and think you are gaining access to the world of knowledge and meaning," says Todd Gitlin, a sociology professor at the University of California, Berkeley. "There's a kind of mental and emotional laziness that gets built...
...Friday] resignation was in conformitywith our regulations," said Paul Gitlin, vicechair of the state Board of Registration inMedicine. "What we got...was [a resignation] thatwas permanent, unconditional, and we accepted...
...Virtually every young man faced the war dilemma," says Berkeley's Gitlin, who wrote a superb history, The Sixties. "It was not self-evident what was the right thing to do. For some it was to leave the country; for others, to be a conscientious objector, or seek an exemption by having children or working in some protected occupation, or by staying in school." For some, of course, the right thing to do was to go to Vietnam and serve...
Many theorists describe the hegemonic influence of modern mass media. Sociologist and cultural critic Todd Gitlin argues that the structure and content of television programs propagate materialist values and political complacency. Historian Stuart Ewen contends that American industry spreads a consumerist ideology through advertising to maintain the authority of the capitalist mode of production...
...think that lesson was learned from Nixon, and other presidents," Gitlin says. "You don't fight a war with a democratic army...