This article reviews the differentiation of the academic profession into disciplinary segments and specialized departments and discusses Blau's theory of structural differentiation in organizations. (JA)

TWO OBSERVATIONS ARE MADE ABOUT ATTITUDE AND BEHAVIOR--THAT ATTITUDES ASSOCIATED WITH THE CULTURE OF POVERTY ARE A REALISTIC RESPONSE TO THE FACTS OF POVERTY, AND THAT SOME PEOPLE TAKE A STATIC VIEW OF POOR PEOPLE'S ATTITUDES SO THAT THEY CAN REMAIN UNMOVED OR FEEL SUPERIOR. FOOD AFFECTS ATTITUDE AND BEHAVIOR. LACK OF IT CAUSES DEPRESSION,…

The booklet divides job titles, selected from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, into 15 career clusters: agribusiness and natural resources, business and office education, communication and media, construction, consumer and home economics, fine arts and humanities, health occupations, hospitality and recreation, manufacturing, marine science,…

Fifth in the series of "Abstracts of Educational Research," this issue presents 15 abstracts grouped into two broad areas: those supporting experimentally that the teacher is a behavioral manager, and those demonstrating techniques which the teacher could use as behavioral manager. The first area contains three studies which conclude that the…

A mistaken assumption held by English teachers for three decades is that there is a definite separation between a child's imagination and his intellectual discipline. When a student is assigned written themes, the assignments should stress the imaginative act as a disciplined and largely conscious process. The students must be helped to discover…

It is pointed out that if information science is to be considered a "true" science similar to physics or chemistry then it must have a set of concepts and analytical expressions which apply to the flow of information in a general way. Such expressions should be relatively independent of the particular context or application under consideration.…

The author offers guidelines for disciplining gifted preschoolers and for stimulating their intellectual growth through games and learning activities. (CL)

A two-step approach to establishing behavior control based on published research is presented. The first step describes systematic strategies for managing group behavior. The second step describes procedures for dealing with individual students whose inappropriate behavior has not changed through the group management plan. (Author/CL)

Contends that the trouble with communication research is fragmentation and too much low-quality and very little high-quality work. (PD)

Using as a measure the magnitude of differences between the responses of believers and non-believers and between members of six academic fields it is evident that beliefs are generally a clearly better predictor of perceived conflict and of expressed concern than is academic field. (Authro)

Briefly reviews the relationship between counselor functions and the counselor as disciplinarian, and suggests that while it is easy for the counselor to avoid the role of disciplinarian, it is a self defeating stance since such avoidance will lead others to question counselor utility. (CJ)