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Are You Popular?

By j7uy5 on July 8, 2006.

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FYI News/Coronet Instructional Film

9 min 52 sec







This is a 1947 film from Coronet Instructional Films, presumably
intended for use in high schools.  It was put together by
Alice Sowers, Ph.D, the director of the Family Life Institute at the
University of Oklahoma.  
 



The idea was to show it to kids, in order to get
them to conform to social expectations.  Of course, it was
presented as
a guide on how to be popular; it did not say that it was really about
how to be a conformist.



Brings back some memories.  



I wonder if they did any prospective studies to see if the kids who
watched this film ended up being more popular.  Or more
conformist, for that matter.



It is kind of amusing to see how society has changed...and how it
hasn't.  What is more amusing, though, is Sage's rel="tag"
href="http://quirkynomads.com/wp/2006/07/07/podcast-how-to-be-popular/">Quirky
Nomads podcast about the film, with added, mildly
satirical,
commentary from a modern perspective.


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