And a witty American journalist remarked over a century ago what is even more true today, `` Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning ''.

* 1955 – Rob Epstein, American filmmaker and journalist

* 1952 – Ralph Wiley, American journalist ( d. 2004 )

* 1973 – Karenna Gore Schiff, American journalist, lawyer, and author

* 1964 – Hoda Kotb, American journalist

* 1970 – Christopher Cuomo, American journalist

* 1971 – James Kim, American journalist and technology expert ( d. 2006 )

* 1971 – Adam Housley, American journalist

* 1973 – Molly Henneberg, American journalist

* 1949 – James Fallows, American journalist

* 1953 – Howard Kurtz, American journalist

* 1954 – James Gleick, American author, journalist, and biographer

* 1900 – Ernie Pyle, American journalist ( d. 1945 )

* 1933 – Jerry Pournelle, American author and journalist

* 1951 – Randy Shilts, American journalist and author ( d. 1994 )

* 1958 – Deborah Norville, American journalist

* 1933 – Ike Pappas, American journalist ( d. 2008 )

* 1946 – Margot Adler, American journalist

* 1978 – John Buffalo Mailer, American author, playwright, actor, producer, and journalist

* Adrian Holovaty ( born 1981 ), American web developer, journalist and entrepreneur

* 1944 – Linda Ellerbee, American journalist

* 1915 – Ring Lardner, Jr., American journalist and screenwriter ( d. 2000 )

* 1951 – Harry Smith, American journalist

* 1931 – Hal Fishman, American journalist ( d. 2007 )

* 1922 – Richard Blackwell, American actor, journalist, fashion designer, and critic ( d. 2008 )

Like Holmes, the American private eye rejects the social conventions of his time.

American democratic thought, pointed up the relation between the Protestant movement in this country and the development of a social religion, which he called the American Democratic Faith.

That John Locke's philosophy of the social contract fathered the American Revolution with its Declaration of Independence, I believe, we generally accept.

To the extent that our sampling of the orientations of American college students in the years 1950 and 1952 may be representative of our culture -- and still valid in 1959 -- we are disposed to question the summary characterization of the current generation as silent, beat, apathetic, or as a mass of other-directed conformists who are guided solely by social radar without benefit of inner gyroscopes.

American policy toward such societies should stress our sympathy for the emerging social and professional classes.

There has been a tendency on the part of many American linguists to assume that a phonemic transcription will automatically be the best possible orthography and that the only real problem will then be the social one of securing acceptance.

-- President Kennedy today proposed a mammoth new medical care program whereby social security taxes on 70 million American workers would be raised to pay the hospital and some other medical bills of 14.2 million Americans over 65 who are covered by social security or railroad retirement programs.

Later in the 1960s and 1970s, Edmund Leach and his students Mary Douglas and Nur Yalman, among others, introduced French structuralism in the style of Lévi-Strauss ; while British anthropology has continued to emphasize social organization and economics over purely symbolic or literary topics, differences among British, French, and American sociocultural anthropologies have diminished with increasing dialogue and borrowing of both theory and methods.

In other countries ( and in some, particularly smaller, British and North American universities ), anthropologists have also found themselves institutionally linked with scholars of folklore, museum studies, human geography, sociology, social relations, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and social work.

Many American anthropologists adopted his agenda for social reform, and theories of race continue to be popular subjects for anthropologists today.

Before WWII British ' social anthropology ' and American ' cultural anthropology ' were still distinct traditions.

Du Bois ' Black Reconstruction, first published in 1935, historians have noted African American contributions during Reconstruction to founding what were often the first systems of public education and welfare institutions in the South, gave muted praise for Republican efforts to extend suffrage and provide other social institutions, and excoriated Johnson for opposing the extension of basic rights to freedmen.

An unofficial standard for spoken American English has also developed, as a result of mass media and geographic and social mobility, and broadly describes the English typically heard from network newscasters, commonly referred to as non-regional diction, although local newscasters tend toward more parochial forms of speech.

* The various ethnicities originating from early social factors of Race in the United States and the gastronomy and cuisines of the “ New World ,” Latin American cuisine and North American cuisine:

Anita Faye Hill ( born July 30, 1956 ) is an American attorney and academic, currently a professor of social policy, law and women's studies at Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management.

Li ' l Abner: A Study in American Satire by Arthur Asa Berger ( Twayne, 1969 ) contained serious analyses of Capp's narrative technique, his use of dialogue, self-caricature and grotesquerie, the place of Li ' l Abner in American satire, and the significance of social criticism and the graphic image.

" One of the few strips ever taken seriously by students of American culture ," wrote Professor Berger, " Li ' l Abner is worth studying ... because of Capp's imagination and artistry, and because of the strip's very obvious social relevance.

These directives implied precise emphasis on: the search for political coordination with emerging and developing countries, namely India, South Africa, Russia and China ; creation of the Union of South American Nations and its derivative bodies, such as the South American Security Council ; strengthening of Mercosul ; projection at the Doha Round and WTO ; maintenance of relations with developed countries, including the United States ; undertaking and narrowing of relations with African countries ; campaign for the reform of the United Nations Security Council and for a permanent seat for Brazil ; and defense of social objectives allowing for a greater equilibrium between the States and populations.

Burrhus Frederic " B. F ." Skinner ( March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990 ) was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher.