scholarly journals Our Sports Clubs: The Sport-for-All Dream in Crisis? Book Review of Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis. By Robert Putnam. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015, 400 pp.; ISBN: 1476769893.

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-253
Author(s):  
Reinhard Haudenhuyse
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
American Dream ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Opportunity Gap ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
Caring Adults ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Impact

This review investigates the potential implications of Putnam’s recent book <em>Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis</em> for the field of social sport sciences. The main themes in Putnam’s <em>Our Kids </em>are class segregation and the widening ‘opportunity’ gap between the ‘have’ and ‘have nots’ in American society. The question can and needs to be asked: what the impact of class-based segregation has been on ‘our sport clubs’? Furthermore, Putnam also discusses the importance and unequal provision of Extracurricular activities. Putnam sees such activities as contexts for developing social skills, a sense of civic engagement and even for generating upward mobility. An important advantage of such activities is, according to Putnam, the exposure to caring adults outside the family, who can often serve as valuable mentors. However, throughout the book, Putnam uses a rather judgmental and moralizing language when talking about the parents of the ‘have nots’. The lesson that sport researchers can learn from this is to be sensitive and critical to moralizing approaches and deficiency discourses regarding the inclusion <em>in</em> and <em>through</em> sport of children and youth living in poverty.

Evaluation of Training

1978 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-300
Author(s):  
Udai Pareek
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Evaluation Of Training ◽  
American Society ◽  
American Management Association ◽  
The Impact

Though a good amount of money is spent on training, very little attention is paid to evaluation of training. This paper reviews some of the recent publications on this vital issue. Books Reviewed Anderson, S.B.; Ball, S.; and Murphy, R.T., Encyclopedia of Educational Evaluation: Concepts and Techniques for Evaluating Education and Training Programs (San Francisco: Jossey Press, 1975). Hamblin, A.C., Evaluation and Control of Training (London: McGraw-Hill, 1974). Kirkpatrick, Donald L.(ed.), Evaluating Training Programs (Madison: American Society for Training and Development, 1975). Tracey, William R., Evaluating Training and Development Systems (New York: American Management Association, 1968). Training Evaluation System: Branch Manager Programme�A Study on the Impact of Training on Branch Managers (Hyderabad: State Bank Staff College, n.d.). Warr, Peter; Bird, Michad; and Rackham, Neil, Evaluation of Management Training (London: Grower Press, 1970). Whitelaw, Malt The Evaluation of Training: A Review (London: Institute of Personnel Management 1978).

Jay Gatsby, Justice Douglas, and the Significance of Class in American Society

2019 ◽  
pp. 125-148
Author(s):  
Justin Driver
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
American West ◽  
American Dream ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
American Society ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter juxtaposes the tales of two ambitious men, both born in the American West, who moved east to New York in an effort to make names for themselves during the 1920s. The ambitions of Jay Gatsby—as recounted in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby—and William O. Douglas—as recounted in his autobiography, Go East, Young Man—led the two men in very different directions. Where Gatsby turned to lawlessness, Douglas instead turned to law. The distinct journeys and distinct fates that Gatsby and Douglas experience yield insight into the significance of class within the United States, and also offer significant complications of the American Dream.

Articles on Mass Communications in American Magazines

1953 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 520-537
Author(s):  
Charles E. Higbie ◽  
Dean C. Baker ◽  
Donald E. Brown ◽  
Charles T. Duncan ◽  
Armistead S. Pride ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Federal Trade Commission ◽  
Mass Communications ◽  
Washington Post ◽  
Liaison Committee ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
American Society ◽  
Post Editor ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Minority Report

Main controversy in the literature of journalism during the third quarter of 1953 was the denouement of the Wechsler-McCarthy feud growing out of the earlier questioning by Senator McCarthy of the New York Post editor before a Senate sub-committee. A majority of a committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, asked to review Wechsler's contention that it was an attempt to intimidate editors, expressed no opinion about the charge but asserted that it was a matter for editors throughout the country to interpret for themselves. Chairman James R. Wiggins of the ASNE committee with three other members issued a minority report declaring that the senator's action did in fact infringe on editorial freedom. Senator McCarthy then wrote to all majority report signers asking that Mr. Wiggins’ record as managing editor of the Washington Post be investigated. In the field of advertising, the course of new personnel in the administration of the Federal Trade Commission was watched with great interest. New interpretations were being given to some regulations relating to advertisements, although the commission itself denied that any great change in policy was taking place despite the charges of a departing director. More “industry influence” was thought to be a possibility, however, through a FTC proposed “advertising liaison committee.” Quantities of new data on the impact of TV on radio listenership and newspaper readership were being presented by trade bodies. More and more survey results on the effects of TTS circuits on editing and publishing also appeared.

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