The modernisation of the Western world during the last two centuries has been a mix of industrialisation/computerisation and urbanisation. Consequently, reports on the future of adult learning and adult education have been a mix on the one hand of the learning requirements that follow from industrialisation/computerisation and on the other hand,…

This article introduces a sociology role-playing game (RPG) used to demonstrate the broad range of social forces, institutions, and structures in a semester-long series of in-class and homework assignments. RPGs and other simulation games have been frequently suggested as a useful teaching methodology because of their unique ability to allow…

This study examines the utility for understanding loneliness of a model of social identity intended to represent the psychological effects of demographic variables and their interactions. The results are discussed in terms of the contribution of the identity model to predicting and understanding the relationships of social structure to loneliness.…

In order to provide information missing from elementary and secondary educational materials, briefly reviews the history, geography, and current political, economic, demographic, and social characteristics of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Some information is also given about Costa Rica, Panama, and Belize.

Along the west bank of the Tombigbee River, about 35 miles north of Mobile, is situated one of the largest and most populous groups of American Isolates: this paper briefly tells the history and describes the situation of this recently formed people, covering such issues as the information and early development, their social topography, and social…

Provides an overview of Canadian poverty in its biological, geographical, ecological, demographic, structural, psychological, cultural, and social dimensions, and suggests relevant references. (JM)

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,…

The educational system in Jamaica is examined in terms of the comparative numbers of males and females enrolled. Sex-role stereotyping is presented as a reflection of Jamaican society, and suggestions for reform of curriculum based on social goals are offered. (JMF)

Describes a number of studies which treated recruitment as an emergent property of the sociopolitical system: the social and political processes that interactively narrow the population of a community to the very few citizens who are elected to the school board were traced. (Author/JM)

Examines the urbanization of blacks in the slave states from 1790 to 1860. Changes in the geographic distribution and demographic structure of the black urban population provide new evidence to evaluate the causes of the decline of urban blacks and reveal the likelihood of a disproportionate incidence of incomplete families for both slave and free…

Reviews Canadian anti-poverty programs according to which of five dimensions is dominant in their activities--biological and demographic, geographical and ecological, structural, psychological and cultural, and/or poverty-as-social-problem. (JM)

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…

Argues that whether one refers to chicano institutions, Chicano programs, Chicano personnel or students they are all on the periphery of the overall academic enterprise, in terms of participation in governance, academic credibility, recognition and status, resource allocation, permanence and facilities: the role of higher education vis-a-vis…