Say you are living abroad and you observe what you feel is a lack of language development for children under age 6. In other words, children remain silent until spoken to, and it’s rare for exchanges between adults and children. You have journaled your observation and feel ready to share this idea with others.<\/p>\n
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David Brooks of the New York Times<\/em> writes an opinion column on culture, politics and morality in our nation. He believes the youth of our nation suffer from a type of shame culture. In a recent article, “The Shame Culture,” he draws upon other writers–both to launch the topic and to support his thesis statement.<\/p>\n In 1987, Allan Bloom wrote a book called \u201cThe Closing of the Bloom\u2019s thesis was accurate at the time, but it\u2019s not accurate anymore. Last year, Andy Crouch published an essay in Christianity Today Crouch starts with the distinction the anthropologist Ruth Benedict (New York Times, 15 March 2016)<\/em><\/sub><\/p>\n Study the essay<\/a> to follow Brooks full argument.<\/p>\n Your observations of culture should lead you to read. Your reading will take you to the studies of sociologists and linguists. Back to Writing Tips<\/a> Say you are living abroad and you observe what you feel is a lack of language development for children under age 6. In other words, children remain silent until spoken to, and it’s rare for exchanges between adults and children. You have journaled your observation and feel ready to share this idea with others. David […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[29,30,31,32,33,34,35,9,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3013,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/3013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAmerican Mind<\/em>.\u201d The core argument was that American campuses
\nwere awash in moral\u00a0relativism. Subjective personal values had
\nreplaced universal moral principles. […]<\/p>\n
\nCollege campuses are today awash in moral judgment. Many people
\ncarefully\u00a0guard their words, afraid they might transgress one of the
\nnorms that have come into existence. […] When a moral crusade
\nspreads across campus, many students feel compelled to post in
\nsupport of it on Facebook within minutes. If they do not post, they
\nwill be noticed and condemned. […]<\/p>\n
\nthat takes us toward an answer.<\/p>\n
\npopularized, between a guilt culture and a shame culture. […]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nThen, who knows–you might become the expert that
\nthe rest of us reference to understand our world.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nContinue Module 5, Research & Presenting Evidence:\u00a0 Backstory<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"