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mores mores
mores , concept developed by William Graham Sumner to designate those folkways that if violated, result in extreme punishment. The term comes from the Latin mos (customs), and although mores are fewer in number than folkways, they are more coercive. Negative mores are taboos, usually supported... Read more
American Association of State Colleges and Universities American Association of State Colleges and Universities
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) is a Washington, D.C.-based organization whose more than 430 members include U.S. public colleges, universities, and thirty systems of higher education. More than half of... Read more
Association of American Colleges and Universities Association of American Colleges and Universities
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) is the national association that works to advance and strengthen undergraduate liberal education for all college students, regardless of their academic specialization or intended... Read more
Billeting Billeting
BILLETING BILLETING, the quartering of military troops at public expense, was a British practice that infuriated American colonists and fueled calls for revolution. Billeting became a contentious issue, particularly in New York and Philadelphia, as Great Britain sent more and more soldiers to... Read more
Womens Fashion Womens Fashion
WOMEN'S FASHION Radical Changes Women's fashions in the 1920s reflected radical changes affecting many areas of post-World War I American society. In the first year of the decade the Nineteenth Amendment had given these women the vote, which, in turn, tended to color their... Read more
Julianne Malveaux Julianne Malveaux
Julianne Malveaux1953— Economist, writer, activist Julianne Malveaux is a highly respected economist whose works explore some of the most complex issues facing American culture. She has appeared often on radio and television to discuss public policy, labor issues, gender and race relations, and... Read more
John Kenneth Galbraith John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith , 1908-2006, American economist and public official, b. Ontario, Canada, grad. Univ. of Toronto (B.S., 1931), Univ. of California, Berkeley (M.S., 1933; Ph.D., 1934). After becoming (1937) a U.S. citizen and teaching economics at Harvard (1934-39) and Princeton (1939-40), he... Read more
Obsession Obsession
Obsession BIBLIOGRAPHY The term obsession is used quite liberally in current popular vernacular to indicate an intense interest in or preoccupation with a subject. Despite the prevalence of this connotation, psychologists generally use the term to indicate a more severe disturbance in... Read more
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Texas War of Independence Texas War of Independence
Texas War of Independence (1836).The origins of the Texas War for Independence were directly linked to the growth of the province following Mexico's own national independence in 1821. Mexican liberals bent on economic progress opened the borders to immigrants and provided them generous land grants... Read more

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