Argues against the characterization of the functional theory of deviance as inherently conservative. Holds that (1) the theory is not inherently ideological, and (2) its value implications are more radical than is generally thought to be the case. (Author/GC)

Results of a study which explored how children acquire ideas about capitalism suggest that economic socialization progressively orients children to a favorable view of capitalism and structured social inequality. (Author/EB)

Argues that France, like the United States, has a dual system of higher education and that class dominance of this system has been assured by governmental policy using the ideology of equality of opportunity to legitimate that dominance. (Author/AM)

Data extracted from the 1960 and 1970 censuses and from a 1976 community survey indicate that community of residence is a crucial factor in shaping attitudes towards social problems. For this reason, community should be viewed as an independent moral order through which individuals attempt to decode the larger society. (Author/WI)

Charges that the field of sociology fails: (i) to emphasize the common characteristics of deviants and nondeviants; (ii) to give due attention to undramatic" forms of deviance; and, (iii) to explore the role of power in defining deviance." (JM)

Reviews the two most prominent methodological procedures used in the study of elites: social background investigations and decision making analyses. Neither of these methodologies when used alone can resolve the power structure debate and two research strategies are offered in an attempt to cast new light on the controversy. (Author/AM)

Develops and contrasts two approaches: the ghettos as a colony and blacks as a marginal working class; each is compared with the more familiar concerned liberal" analysis. (JM)

Explores factors influencing people to either support or oppose the idea of economic equality, emphasizing that low income people apparently oppose equality: a literature review is interpreted as suggesting the existence of an underlying belief structure consisting of five elements, all of which would have to be present if equality is to be…

Seeks to explain the use of ideologies concerning the failure or non-failure in American education in terms of the struggle of sponsoring and professional groups to establish or maintain position on the social scene and, correspondingly, to gain control over those clienteles which are relevant to drives for social or professional mobility. (RJ)

Charges that the term alienation" has no scientific usefulness or meaning; and that it is useful only to formula-peddling counselors and spokesmen for the status quo when dealing with problem" minority groups. (JM)

An adaptational perspective is supported over either a cultural or a situational perspective with respect to the study of social classes. The proposed perspective is said to consider the features and processes of class culture. (AM)

1960 and 1970 census data on 179 urbanized areas are analyzed in a search for changes over time using five measures of white status--a summary index of the occupational status of employed males the percent of employed males in higher status occupations, the percent of families with income of 10,000 dollars or more, the percent of families with…

Roach and Roach complain that separatist organizing, particularly in regard to the Black movement, is harmful. This sort of complaint, however, ignores the historically specific circumstances in which social movements emerge and in which strategies and goals and the potential for societal transformation are formed. (Author/EB)

"Whether advancing technology had been a primary determinant of educational expansion is assessed by looking at the following: the relation between changes in the technical skill requirements of jobs and changes in the educational attainment and job performance; the kinds of training workers use; and a simulated longitudinal analysis of the…

Three different principles and ideologies by which the division of labor can be organized are sketched, along with their consequences for variation in structure and content. It is noted that the reality of the division of labor lies in the social interaction of its participants. (Author/AM)