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Rambling Notes from a Roving Radical Behaviorist: Clinton, Bush, Skinner And Social Determinism

Rambling Notes from a Roving Radical Behaviorist: Clinton, Bush, Skinner And Social Determinism Behavior and Social Issues, 13, 6-12 (2004). © Richard W. Malott. Readers of this article may copy it without the copyright owner’s permission, if the author and publisher are acknowledged in the copy and the copy is used for educational, not-for-profit purposes. RAMBLING NOTES FROM A ROVING RADICAL BEHAVIORIST: CLINTON, BUSH, SKINNER AND SOCIAL DETERMINISM Richard W. Malott, BCBA Western Michigan University Key words: B. F. Skinner, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, social determinism, biological determinism, radical behaviorism (Gentle reader: This essay relies on gratuitous, inflammatory political commentary to emphasize its scientific point.) My Favorite Peckerwood The peckerwood pecked on the school house door. Pecked so hard ‘til his pecker got sore. From the old Folkways LP, Prison Songs, collected in the Mississippi prisons by the late Allan Lomax. Unfortunately the Sanitation Department removed it from the CD reissue, which I discovered when I was entertaining the fantasy of compiling a personal CD called Peckerwood Blues, because I have the collector’s pathological compulsion not only to categorize but also to subcategorize, and I had to have a subcategory of the blues for white folks singing the blues. Peckerwood is an old, pejorative, southern African-American term for white trash. I http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Behavior and Social Issues Springer Journals

Rambling Notes from a Roving Radical Behaviorist: Clinton, Bush, Skinner And Social Determinism

Malott, Richard
Behavior and Social Issues , Volume 13 (1) – May 1, 2004
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Copyright © 2004 by Richard W. Malott
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Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Personality and Social Psychology
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1064-9506
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Behavior and Social Issues, 13, 6-12 (2004). © Richard W. Malott. Readers of this article may copy it without the copyright owner’s permission, if the author and publisher are acknowledged in the copy and the copy is used for educational, not-for-profit purposes. RAMBLING NOTES FROM A ROVING RADICAL BEHAVIORIST: CLINTON, BUSH, SKINNER AND SOCIAL DETERMINISM Richard W. Malott, BCBA Western Michigan University Key words: B. F. Skinner, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, social determinism, biological determinism, radical behaviorism (Gentle reader: This essay relies on gratuitous, inflammatory political commentary to emphasize its scientific point.) My Favorite Peckerwood The peckerwood pecked on the school house door. Pecked so hard ‘til his pecker got sore. From the old Folkways LP, Prison Songs, collected in the Mississippi prisons by the late Allan Lomax. Unfortunately the Sanitation Department removed it from the CD reissue, which I discovered when I was entertaining the fantasy of compiling a personal CD called Peckerwood Blues, because I have the collector’s pathological compulsion not only to categorize but also to subcategorize, and I had to have a subcategory of the blues for white folks singing the blues. Peckerwood is an old, pejorative, southern African-American term for white trash. I

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Behavior and Social Issues – Springer Journals

Published: May 1, 2004

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