In studying the causes of dating violence, researchers have investigated three broad areas: early life experiences, individual characteristics, and relationship characteristics. While each of these areas has been shown to play a role in dating violence, the interactive processes which lead to violence among dating couples have not been…

Reports on a research study which examines the extent to which early-life sex-role socialization leads women to pursue sex-typical careers. (RKM)

Reviews Jonathan Kozol's book, "Illiterate America." Asserts that Kozol's argument is insensitive to cultural variation and stems from an unquestioning commitment to humanism. Argues that conventional definitions of "literacy" have tended to be more closely related to particular social structures and values than to cognitive development and…

The author proposes a theory of power which explains important features of social and political life from the point of view that a more democratic and equalitarian organization of society is possible and desirable, and that education can play a role in attaining that kind of society. (MT)

It is important to understand the government's role in educational policies to gain understanding of educational change or reform. Reports on the status of education tend to be oriented to the needs of the corporate section and its problems of adequate profitability. (DF)

Computers make possible a variety of investigative and enforcement techniques. However, the technology of systematic data searching is subject to at least six sources of error, e.g., incorrectly entered data, none of which can be completely eliminated. Thus, a thought police as envisioned by Orwell remains a technological fiction. (RM)

The state of Rhode Island has recently embarked in a new state accountability system for public elementary and secondary education. An overview of the system is provided, coupled with an understanding of accountability systems as technologies of social control. The ramifications of such technologies are discussed along with the costs, benefits,…

A historical overview of American literary and political writings shows the concept of equality of opportunity to have been equivocal, serving the interests of the powerful while placating the powerless, regardless of noble educational objectives. Education can be equitable and equalizing in offering beginnings to diverse individuals only if just…

Asserts that secluded nature of homosexual bar and its importance as social center is one example of how lifestyle may contribute to alcohol and drug problems of homosexuals. Describes what aspects of lifestyle and social control must be taken into account when intervening into such problems. (Author)

Suggests that "competence" is a component of power-knowledge practices that regulate adults through a process of self-regulation. Argues that competency-based education is a means of producing consent without using oppression or force in reproducing the social order. (SK)

Comparative education scholarship on legitimation and educational knowledge has shifted from natural scientific definitions of knowledge to more socially critical conceptions, and encompasses both the specific processes whereby educational knowledge becomes legitimate and the dialectical relationship between legitimation of knowledge in…

Data suggest that it is premature to conclude that management has succeeded in appropriating workers' knowledge, accountability, and responsibility for work. The labor market has become fluid and dynamic and no longer conforms to the traditional construct of an internal labor market. A refinement of labor process theory is in order. (JOW)

Examines whether violence, rather than being an isolated subculture in itself, is part of a general subculture of delinquency. Data from 3,819 Icelandic high school students support the notion that violence is part of a general subculture of delinquency. (SLD)

Asserts that coercive restraint is justified when grave social injuries are sustained. Argues that adult education theories that advocate enlightenment of perpetrators are inadequate. Urges a pedagogy of coercive restraint to alleviate social injustice. (SK)

Discusses the physical, sexual, and psychological ramifications of biological determinism using examples from the global status of women's health, the continuation of female genital mutilation, and the history of sexist beliefs in psychology that serve a social control function of creating and defining women's psychopathology. (Author/SLD)