HELP! What is this word?

[Jennie Ann]

I got turned onto You-Convert-It-dot-com right here at CSRnation. THANK YOU, MONTI. I love it, love it, love it.

I would like to find out if there may be a better or more appropriate way to post a small audio file for others to listen to, in an effort find out what a word is. We all run into difficult words from time to time, and a fresh ear is always handy. We got a lot of fresh ears on this forum. :-)

Here is the text: "What you started to see in the '60s was the philosophy imported from Europe of people like Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the collectivist mind-set, the general will, the individual as a part of a collective with no rights, except those granted by the collective, and it was guised under the term of "self-actualization," which was really [GROM-shee (ph)] and others grasping at Rousseau through Marxism and putting the cultural dimension into it."

Whew, what a mouthful. GROM-shee? Who or what is that? Anybody know? Below is a 26-second .MP3 audio file.

[Karen Goldenberg]

Allison,

You and I are on the same wavelenght. I just did some brainstorming with my husband, and we could only think of Noam Chomsky.

Bubbie Karen

[Pat Porter]

Gramsci? I tried to copy a link here. Didn't work. Will try again.

Pat

[Pat Porter]

Here's the link: http://www.alamo-girl.com/0341.htm

Not totally sure that's what you're looking for, but...

Pat

[Karen Goldenberg]

Pat,

What did you do to research? Do please share. Thanks

Bubbie Karen

[Pat Porter]

I'm no history buff, so I Googled "France and Gramshee," hoping Google would respond with, "Did you mean (whatever)?" Luckily, "gram-shee" appeared in that article, so it was picked up by Google.

Google is my hero!!

Pat

[Pat Porter]

P.S. I didn't actually put it in Google as "France and Gramshee." It was France and Gramshee, no quotes.

Pat

[Jennie Ann]

Pat Porter, you are the cat's meow! BINGO!

Thanks to all for your wonderful expertise in helping me.

In my best Ryan Seacrest voice, "THIS is CSRnation." :-)

[Round of applause]
[Standing ovation]

[Melia Shell]

Interesting!

They didn't include this in Sociology 101 or PoliSci 101, did they?!!
Gramsci, who knew? Sicilian origin. He had nice hair as well as brain, apparently. ;-)

A sidebar note and obliquely related:

http://cstl-cla.semo.edu/snell/PY432/book/maslow.html
http://cstl-cla.semo.edu/snell/PY432/book/maslow.html

An article about Abraham Maslow and his input. Scan/scroll 7/8s down to the
Discussion section. Chomsky is mentioned but Gramsci was more than likely
considered by the lecturer as a forerunner to the thinking resulting in the self-actualization movement.

A good many self-actualizers on csrnation!! Applause. Applause!