A Different World

1. What is the connection between authority and community?
2. Why does Ehrenhalt say that "the market is a force for the disruption of existing relationships" and that choice can be a burden that lots of people prefer not to have?
3. Is Daley's corruption-filled machine more in accord with a realistic view of human nature than our idealist squeaky-clean systems? Why is it that cleaning up the machines hasn't produced better schools, safer streets, or more responsive government? Arguably, politics has gotten cleaner and the schools worse. Does this reveal something deep about human nature, or is it just a coincidence?
4. American society in the 1950s, according to the account in chapter 3, was characterized by a profoundly unsettled contentment - by unimagined prosperity and by neurosis and ulcers. How is Betty Friedan (see page 82) a good representation of this conflicted state?