Population Law: A Neglected Field
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Authors
Barnett, Larry D.
Issue Date
1980
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13
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Journal Article
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FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|The rate at which American society is changing is appreciable, and there is no indication that it will noticeably slow in the years ahead. The American public apparently believes that the pace of change will continue unabated; in a national survey done in the summer of 1978, three out of four Americans indicated that they expected lifestyles in twenty-five years to be "very much different" than today. The changes in lifestyle, however, will be overt and readily-observable, and they should not be permitted to obscure accompanying changes that are under the surface and not easily detected. Among the latter changes will be different assumptions about the nature of the world. The importance of the new assumptions cannot be overemphasized, for they will create a different perspective towards human experience. Americans will have a mental map of the world differing from what they have today. The changes occurring in the map will be generated by new circumstances that will have to be taken into account in order to make sense of a changed world, that is, in order to identify the new factors in human experience creating problems which must be solved. This process is also at work in science, where human adaptation and problem-solving behavior finds its most formalized expression; what is true of science as a method of solving problems is fundamentally true of human behavior generally...
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13 Creighton L. Rev. 1 (1979-1980)
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Creighton University School of Law