A Different World

1.In 50s Chicago, a lot of the authority stemmed from the community. To the average person, they just had to deal with government, and the real authority was their peers encouraging them to do what is right. There was little to no privacy and very limited choices. People were not unhappy because they did not think of bigger and greater things. What is important to note is that there was a concept of evil that was real to them.
2.The market expanded Chicago, and it seems that it lost the sense of community it had before. It exposed the people to evil on a greater level, and it expanded the role of the individual in making choices. He uses the example of the factory which slowly broke away from the the town, as an effect of the markets.
3.Daley's corruption-filled machine, as the title of the chapter implies, accepts the fact that sin exists and the people are sinful. He uses that information to achieve his ends. It a more realistic and practical view than a squeaky-clean system. Cleaning up the machine takes so much effort, for marginal results, that it becomes completely inefficient leading to an entirely different and larger set of problems. I don't know if it reveals something deep about human nature, but it does serve to show that a human is a social being, and bureaucracy goes against human nature.
4.Betty Friedan exemplifies the conflict between prosperity in that she was successful yet crazy.