Dennis+Pirages

Ron's Part Who were Who was Dennis Pirages and Paul Ehlrich and why are their names associated with the notion of a "dominant social paradigm?" = __Dennis Pirages__ =
 * Professor at The University of Maryland at College Park
 * Co authored the book Ark II with Paul Ehrlich
 * Received a Ph D. from Stanford University

**"Dennis Clark Pirages** is Harrison Professor of International Politics in the Department of Government at the University of Maryland, College Park.

He is author or editor of more than a dozen books including, "Global Ecopolitics: The New Context for International Relations," "Global Technopolitics: The International Politics of Technology and Resources" and "Building Sustainable Societies: A Blueprint for a Post-Industrial World."

Mr. Pirages is a lifetime fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is on the board of driectors of the World Future Society."     Cited from: []

 = __Paul Ehlrich__ = > CITED from [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Ehrlich#Bibliography]
 * "Ehrlich was born in [|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] . His father was a shirt salesman, his mother a [|Greek] and [|Latin] scholar. [|[5]] He earned a bachelors degree in [|zoology] from the [|University of Pennsylvania] in 1953, an M.A. at the [|University of Kansas] in 1955, and a Ph.D. in 1957 at the University of Kansas, supervised by the prominent [|bee] researcher [|C.D. Michener] . During his studies he participated in surveys of [|insects] on the [|Bering Sea] and in the [|Canadian] [|Arctic], and then with a [|National Institutes of Health] fellowship, investigated the genetics and behavior of parasitic mites. In 1959 he joined the faculty at Stanford, being promoted to professor of [|biology] in 1966. He was named to the Bing Professorship in 1977, [|[6]] and he is president of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. [|[7]] Additionally, Ehrlich is a fellow of the [|American Association for the Advancement of Science] , the [|United States National Academy of Sciences] , the [|American Academy of Arts and Sciences] and the [|American Philosophical Society] . [|[6]] Ehrlich continues to perform policy research concerning population and resource issues, emphasizing especially [|endangered species] , [|cultural evolution] , [|environmental ethics] , and the preservation of [|genetic] resources. Along with Dr. Gretchen Daily, he has performed work in countryside [|biogeography] , or the study of making human-disturbed areas hospitable to [|biodiversity] . His research group at Stanford researches extensively natural populations of the [|Bay checkerspot butterfly] //(Euphydryas)//. [|[8]] He has been married to [|Anne H. Ehrlich] (born Anne Fitzhugh Howland, 1933) since 1954; he and Anne have one child, Lisa Marie. [|[9]] "

=__The Two Men__=

 
 * //Dennis Pirages // and Paul Ehrlich define a //dominant social paradigm //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> as “a mental image of social reality that guides expectations in a society.” This idea was defined and outlined in the book they authored together titled "Ark II" Published in 1974
 * <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">The two men painted a picture with their research and their book that defines how people view life's situations and how their thoughts and outlooks influenced their actions and their expectations of others in society.