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Program 747: Ethnic Diversity, Individual Rights, and Family Policy

In planning for a proposed national family policy, Irving M. Levine and Joseph Giordano, both of the American Jewish Committee, urge a rediscovery of the strengths of the various ethnic traditions which transmit a sense of cohesiveness over generations, as a response to modern economic and social pressures on the family as a unit in society. Discussion follows with other conference participants, including Leonard Borman, Don Feldstein, Lawrence Fuchs, Burleigh Gardner, Robert B. Hill, Doris Holleb, Grace Holt, John L. McKnight, Masako Osako, and Sol Tax. The Family in a Changing Society II. Oct. 19, 1976. [CSDI program number 747; UCSB tape numbers A8492/R7, A8493/R7]

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The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987. During that time it brought together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Thanks to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, a project has begun to digitize and make accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI.

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