Social Redemption Research Articles

Marlene Shore. <italic>The Science of Social Redemption: McGill, the Chicago School, and the Origins of Social Research in Canada</italic>. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 1987. Pp. xviii, 340. Cloth $37.50, paper $16.95

Marlene Shore. <italic>The Science of Social Redemption: McGill, the Chicago School, and the Origins of Social Research in Canada</italic>. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 1987. Pp. xviii, 340. Cloth $37.50, paper $16.95

The Science of Social Redemption: McGill, the Chicago School, and the Origins of Social Research in Canada

The Science of Social Redemption: McGill, the Chicago School, and the Origins of Social Research in Canada

The Science of Social Redemption: McGill, the Chicago School, and the Origins of Social Research in Canada

The Science of Social Redemption: McGill, the Chicago School, and the Origins of Social Research in Canada

SHORE, Marlene, The Science of Social Redemption: McGill, the Chicago School, and the Origins of Social Research in Canada. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1987. 340 p. 16,95 $

SHORE, Marlene, The Science of Social Redemption: McGill, the Chicago School, and the Origins of Social Research in Canada. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1987. 340 p. 16,95 $

Health Promotion, Jogging, and the Pursuit of the Moral Life

Individual lifestyle was held accountable for health and disease throughout much of American history. Since the advent of the germ theory of disease, the focus on the etiology of disease has shifted to factors beyond individual control. But in the past two decades, there has been a resurgence of interest in the role of personal habits in producing sickness. This paper examines the history of one facet of the health promotion movement--aerobic exercise, primarily jogging. Initially, concepts in exercise physiology were adapted from non-medical fields--such as competitive sports and the military--for use in cardiac rehabilitation. Subsequently, a few physicians generalized their experience with cardiac patients to the general population, concluding that aerobic exercise could prevent heart attacks. This idea of exercise as a prophylaxis was seized upon by the public, who were receptive because of the political climate of the sixties. Once the popular movement was underway, researchers began studying the role of exercise in preventing coronary heart disease, confirming that exercise does confer some benefit. In the seventies, exercise attracted a new, wider audience--not because of the justification for its use provided by the scientific community, but because of the appeal of upright living as a means to personal and social redemption. The case of aerobic exercise provides an instructive example to social scientists and policymakers seeking to understand or to encourage widespread behavioral change.

“Architecture or Revolution”: Taylorism, Technocracy, and Social Change

Le Corbusier's social and political position continues to be one of the most controversial dimensions of his career. On the one hand, Post-Modernist critics and architects denounce his messianic social vision: his belief that architecture is a tool for social redemption. Charles Jencks, for instance, sarcastically describes Le Corbusier's “heroic object of every day use” as the “new, revolutionary detergent”; the editors of Harvard Architecture Review condemn his utopianism with their assertion that “architecture can profit more by working with what ‘is’ rather than what ‘should be.’” On the other hand, historians have often been skeptical of the claim that politics played a significant role in the formulation of Le Corbusier's work.

Varieties, Verities and Paradoxes in the History of Education

Ronald D. Cohen and Raymond A. Mohl. The Paradox of Progressive Education: The Gary Plan and Urban Schooling. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1979. 216 + viii pp. Barbara Finkelstein, ed. Regulated Children/ Liberated Children: Education in Psychohistorical Perspective. New York: Psychohistory Press, 1979. 225 pp. Vincent P. Franklin. The Education of Black Phila- delphia: The Social and Educational History of a Minority Community, 1900-1950. Philadelphia- University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979. 298 + xxi pp. In a variety of ways, the three books under review certify that paradox in human history is a truth to be explained, not an illusion to be explained away. Few libertarian philosophies are free of regulative elements; not many libera- tion movements are without their regulating agents. If progressivism in American education was a force for social redemption, as Lawrence A. Cremin suggests in The Transformation of the School one has to explain why the school board in Philadelphia was so reluctant to employ democratic values in the education of its black minority. If Raymond E. Callahan, the author of Education and the Cult of Efficiency, perceived Gary's William Wirt as an administrative progressive whose platoon system replicated the factory rather than the fulness of life, why was Wirt able to command the admiration and respect of a social reconstructionist like Alice Barrows for full twenty years?1

"Woman's Place" and the Search for Identity in Ante-Bellum America

This paper is intended as a tentative exploration of some ways in which the particular intellectual and cultural climate of ante-bellum America affected both the adjustment of middle-class men and women to one another and the development of a more acute self-consciousness among women about their identity and their role in society. The process of modernization gather- ing momentum in eighteenth-century America and Western Europe contributed two important aspects to that mental climate: first, a "republi- can" ideology which, not in spite of, but because of its commitment to liberty and equality made it extremely difficult to know exactly what to do with human beings perceived as ineradicably and by nature "Other" and unequal—women (and in the United States, blacks); second, an acute awareness of, and anxiety about, sexual identity as something, apparently, no longer to be taken for granted, but needing constant definition and confirmation. From the 1820's a third development impinged upon these anxieties: an intense preoccupation, fostered both by Romanticism and the Revival, with the Self, with self-examination, self-development, the expansion of individual potentialities towards a constantly receding horizon of human "growth." Finally, what Page Smith calls the "Protestant passion" to turn the energies of the redeemed and newly-aware self onto the social redemption of the world issued in a great wave of reform. All of these factors had a profound effect on the ways in which men and women conceived their relationships to one another. All, in turn, were themselves bound up with problems of sexual tensions and sexual definition.1

The Social Redemption of Pure Garbage

The SciencesVolume 12, Issue 6 p. 13-15 The Social Redemption of Pure Garbage Joan Solomon, Joan SolomonSearch for more papers by this author Joan Solomon, Joan SolomonSearch for more papers by this author First published: July‐August 1972 https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2326-1951.1972.tb01015.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume12, Issue6July‐August 1972Pages 13-15 RelatedInformation

The Rise of the Fallen Woman

FEMININE frailty before masculine wiles or blandishments provided the chief subject matter for the first generation of American novelists, who endlessly repeated the object lesson set by Clarissa Harlowe when she went off with Lovelace to ruin and an inevitable death of shame. W. H. Brown, Suzanna Rowson, Hannah Foster, their imitators and successors-all detailed the weakening of womanly virtue and the subsequent suffering brought about by a Providence justly upholding the absolute value of feminine chastity. Once a girl fell, she invariably faced dishonor and death, unless, indeed, she evaded public shame by prompt suicide. This escape was condoned by some writers,' who pitied the fallen but could see for them no relief this side of heaven. Mrs. Rowson stands out from her fellow novelists for going beyond conventional expressions of pity to indignant criticism of an unfeeling world.2 A sympathetic character in Charlotte Temple who thought the fallen her oine worth saving dared hope the dying Charlotte might recover and, spite of her former errors, become an useful and respectable member of society.3 Though the hope went unfulfilled, it is significant as a suggestion of social redemption most unusual among pre-Civil War novelists. The seduction novel won sanction in a moral-

Book Review: The Ethics of the Gospel. By F. A. M. Spencer. Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d; The Divine Society: Christian Dogma and Social Redemption. By W. G. Peck. S.C.M. 6s

Book Review: <scp>The Ethics of the Gospel</scp>. By F. A. M. Spencer. Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d; <scp>The Divine Society: Christian Dogma and Social Redemption</scp>. By W. G. Peck. S.C.M. 6s

The Power of The Cross in Social Redemption.

The Power of The Cross in Social Redemption.

Christianity and the Hope of Social Redemption

Previous articleNext article FreeChristianity and the Hope of Social RedemptionSamuel DickeySamuel Dickey Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 40, Number 3Sep., 1912 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/474632 Views: 63Total views on this site Journal History This article was published in The Biblical World (1893-1920), which is continued by The American Journal of Theology (1897-1920). PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Selfhood and Service. The Relation of Christian Personality to Wealth and Social Redemption. David Beaton

Previous articleNext article FreeRecent Theological LiteratureSelfhood and Service. The Relation of Christian Personality to Wealth and Social Redemption. David Beaton Lemuel Call BarnesLemuel Call Barnes Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 3, Number 2Apr., 1899 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/477131 Views: 47 Journal History This article was published in The American Journal of Theology (1897-1920), which is continued by The Journal of Religion (1921-present). PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.