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AbstractMaintenance agreements were a traditional mechanism by which the elderly gained economic security for themselves and ensured the continuing viability of the family economy. Over the later decades of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century in Canada, variations to this traditional process developed. The wage-labour opportunities available to young adults altered their dependence on family property, that itself was often changing incharacter. Reduced dependence loweredthe elderly parents' obligation to use the property to sustain the family over succeeding generations, even allowing the elderly to disperse or alienate the property. New forms of property could also be employed to somewhat altered purposes — the property no longer had to sustain an entire family culture and way of life, but simply to maintain its owners. Thus, an age-old custom was adapted by the elderly to meet their needs in circumstances of fundamental economic and social change.
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AbstractAfter summarizing the vast historical and comparative literature on the role of the intellectual which points out among other things that there is a general antipathy between intellectuals and persons in power, the author constructs a heuristic model which can highlight the complexity of political roles played by intellectuals on the basis of two distinct but related dichotomies (intellect/intelligence ; innovator/integrator). By cross-tabulating these dicotho-mies, he discovers four prototypical roles among which intellectuals are distributed : a) gate keeper, b) moralist, c) protector and d) conservative. In his description of each of these roles, which is based largely upon examples of american intellectuals, the author discusses both the different political behaviorsthat assure a role for "knowledge and culture" and the social conditions which contribute to the development of such behaviors.
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