A look at what students think about suggests that real social thinkers could be developed if students are provided with a breadth of knowledge to think about, a variety of models to use to begin thinking about it, and then are permitted to think. (Author/KM)

This essay discussed some of contemporary society's more urgent demands on the professions, developed a framework through which to categorize those demands, and examined what they portend for the professions. (Author/RK)

The author examines the realities behind the myths of the school as a melting pot; as a road to success and wisdom; and as a self-fulfilling experience for every individual. (Author/KM)

This pilot study was conducted with the intention of examining changes in attitude that have or are occurring among upperclassmen on the campus of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. One method of judging this was to assess the attitudes of both sexes toward selected current sexual topics. (Author)

The author analyzes the theories of Peter Harper as expressed in Soft Technology' and Criticism of the Western Model of Development, Prospects'', Summer 1973. Support is given to Harper's rejection of the model of affluent society, but Sach's rejects the solutions to societal problems offered by Harper. (SM)

The social studies classroom becomes a forum for examining the issues and problems of contemporary society by letting students provide popular records for classroom discussion. Results of two such experiments are reviewed. (Author/KM)

This article examines the allegiance of a sample of black youths to four types of protest--integrationist, nihilist, pluralist, and separatist. Preference for a type of protest was related to the individual's orientation to either an individual advancement or collective advancement ideology and to how powerless he felt to achieve social mobility.…

An authority on career education proposes a relation between this area and the social studies' thrusts of inquiry training and values education. He defines a new role for social studies in building a multidisciplinary approach to understanding an individual's economic role and social problems in general. (KM)

A new, effective mode of authority to face a growing anarchic ideology would be required to be open, public, and accountable; flexible and individualized; reduced in scope and independent of both private and governmental sectors. (KM)

A practicing white investigator reports on his experiences in conducting research in black communities; the adequacy of traditional academic training for the conduct of research in black communities is questioned. (Author/JM)

At a national symposium on Societal Problems of Water Resources at Western Illinois University, scientists discussed dams, canals, water pollution control and management programs, federal-state relations in resource planning, and their effects on how we live. (BL)

The factors contributing to the need for educational change in the direction of lifelong learning are discussed: global phenomena (economic change and demographic trends); scientific and technological developments (obsolescence of knowledge, development of human sciences, the application of technological progress to education); and social dynamics…