It Takes a Tribe. David Berreby.
by Berreby, David; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 19Institutions. Publisher: New York Times, 2004ISSN: 1522-3256;.Subject(s): College students | Group identity | Loyalty | Manners and customs | Rites and ceremonies | Social psychology | Universities and collegesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "At colleges across the country, from Ivy League to less exclusive state schools, students who are mispronouncing the library's name this month [Aug.] will soon feel truly and deeply a part of their college. They'll be singing their school songs and cherishing the traditions (just as soon as they learn what they are). They'll talk the way 'we' do. (Going to Texas A&M? Then greet people with a cheerful 'howdy.') They'll learn contempt for that rival university--Oklahoma to their Texas, Sacramento State to their U.C. Davis, Annapolis to their West Point. They may come to believe, too, that an essential trait separates them from the rest of humanity--the same sort of feeling most Americans have about races, ethnic groups and religions." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article reveals how these "college tribes may shed light on the way the mind works with those other sorts of groups, the ones that shape and misshape the world, like nation, race, creed, caste or culture."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: It Takes a Tribe, Aug. 1, 2004; pp. Educ. Sec., pp. 22+.
"At colleges across the country, from Ivy League to less exclusive state schools, students who are mispronouncing the library's name this month [Aug.] will soon feel truly and deeply a part of their college. They'll be singing their school songs and cherishing the traditions (just as soon as they learn what they are). They'll talk the way 'we' do. (Going to Texas A&M? Then greet people with a cheerful 'howdy.') They'll learn contempt for that rival university--Oklahoma to their Texas, Sacramento State to their U.C. Davis, Annapolis to their West Point. They may come to believe, too, that an essential trait separates them from the rest of humanity--the same sort of feeling most Americans have about races, ethnic groups and religions." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article reveals how these "college tribes may shed light on the way the mind works with those other sorts of groups, the ones that shape and misshape the world, like nation, race, creed, caste or culture."
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