The Princeton Seminary Bulletin Vol 2

Author : Stephen D. Crocco
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364216453
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, 2005, Vol. 26 (Classic Reprint) written by Stephen D. Crocco and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, 2005, Vol. 26 In The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell offers a fascinating, if breezy, theory of social change. Concerned to explain how certain social trends seem to take hold suddenly and seemingly inexplicably in the culture, that is, how they tip, Gladwell makes a strong claim that context shapes character much more than we generally are willing to acknowledge. He offers the example of crime in New York City. The crime rate in New York City plummeted in the 19905, the apparent result of attention to the power of context. The police began to crack down on crimes always considered to be too minor to attend to previously: fare beating in the subways, public urination, and the like. The result was an environment that was not conducive to crime. People who would have committed crimes in a city that consistently allowed very minor crime did not commit crimes in a city that did not allow it. While Gladwell is open to charges of oversimplifying complex phenomena, he makes a claim that rings oddly true. Gladwell thinks character is not as stable or fixed as we often think. Rather, it is, he says, like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circum stances and context. The reason that most of us seem to have a consistent character, he says, is that most of us are really good at controlling our environ ment.8 And some people, of course, have more control over their environ ments than do others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.