An examination of the social organization of the American Rom Gypsies, focusing on the mechanisms and dynamics by which they maintain a distinct way of life in the face of assimilative pressures. (EH)

A reorganization and reanalysis of data gathered by Ronald Charles Frederico--who interviewed 146 dancers belonging to 12 ballet companies in the U.S.--to investigate the structural features of ballet as a profession. Four possibilities exist for a more general interpretative scheme for understanding ballet: social structural, phenomenological,…

Argues that contemporary television programming helps maintain the existing political, economic, and social systems by refusing to question basic American assumptions about social arrangements preferring to take these arrangements for granted as the natural conditions of human life. These characteristics are particularly clear in its treatment of…

Concludes that the real challenge to social scientists in this administration, and any other, is not how to relate effectively and get more funds from the executive branch, but how to relate more effectively as teachers and learners in the political process--with the American people and their elected representatives in Congress. (Author/JM)

Asserts that the more differentiated a society, the greater the probability of encountering varied musical forms, and that the social location of musical practice is a relatively independent variable for the forms and quality taken by musical expressions. Discusses a pilot study on the range of musical forms actively practiced in the St. Louis…

Argues that in Poland, the Soviet Union, and in much of eastern Europe, creators can utilize strategies and take advantage of various policies that make theatre a relatively free medium for political expression. And the public, starved for such expression, naturally turns to the theatre, frequently making it an important political institution.…

An interactional sociolinguistic analysis of social and attitudinal factors in face to face encounters shows how such factors can affect the evaluation of human action and contribute to the maintenance of socioeconomic disadvantage among ethnic minorities. (Author/GC)

An intensive logical and empirical critique of Herrnstein's suggestion that a state of equal social, economic, and educational opportunities in a society would inevitably produce a meritocracy based on hereditary potential for intelligence. (JM)

The current debate over the size and distribution of government patronage obscures a complexity of government influences in the cultural life of the nation. Various programs of the different departments of government foster and inhibit specific high-brow and popular forms. The most distant and yet most fundamental influence of government is in…

An examination of the U.S. and Israel points up ways in which the emphasis on egalitarianism in the founding political doctrines of each has determined much in its institutional practices and patterns of behavior, and the repeated efforts of each to "equalize" hierarchies imposed seemingly by social necessity. (Author/JM)

In our framing of Alaskan history, Alaska natives are perceived as just one more aspect of the untamed wilderness to be dealt with. The problem of language for these groups is viewed as one of developing a successful, institutionalized relationship to English speaking society, assuming that they must participate. (Author/GC)