Numerous studies of Chicano families have focused primarily on pathology, rather than on the diversity and strengths developed throughout often turbulent historical events over which they had no control. The author carefully documents the fallacious premises on which the studies are based and offers suggestions for more realistic future research.…

The basis of good social studies education has been the growth of ability to cope with a changing world, and will depend in the future upon the directions and practices of the school of which it is a part. Presidential Address at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies, November 1972. (JB)

Article examines the impact of a number of socio-political variables and the political environment -- the national political opinion climate -- on the party choice of university students using data from 1,006 questionnaires completed by first year University of New Brunswick students. (Author)

Report concerns research to develop a broad and flexible method for assessing familiarity with slang for various topics. (Authors)

Hypotheses were confirmed that most boys would resist sex-inappropriate behavior, boys would more often exhibit resistance techniques than girls, and boys would choose sex-appropriate toys for boys more often than for girls. (Authors)

Author briefly summarizes the research and objectives of physical education programs. (CB)

Sources of marital power are examined and are found to affect the power distribution. Data points to the conclusion that the differences in marital power are not due to individual resources or personal competence of the partners, but to the discrimination against women in the larger society. (Author)

Outlines some general principles of the Marxist Theory of Literary Criticism for scholars and teachers. (RB)

A challenging model for the school social worker grows out of group work approach. It is built on successful past demonstrations, examples of effective current practice, and imaginative projections of present trends. The role embraces helping malperformers adjust and promoting social learning for all children in the school setting. (Author)

The Woodbury materials center around a mock election in a hypothetical community. Students are given background data of the sort astute and active political campaign personnel would ferret out. A statistical outcome rpovides the students a means of evaluating the effectiveness of their strategy as the game progresses. (JB)

During the past ten years, the Institutes have presented a series of living and learning summer sessions in an outdoor setting among the redwoods near San Francisco. Young people from 16 to 20 have participated in the cross cultural studies, some involving foreign scholars studying in the United States. (Author)

Critical analysis of the new school of commentators who have declared that the social problems ignored in the 1950s are less serious than they seem, that nothing is wrong with America that lowering of objectives would not solve, and that the country will be in worse shape if people keep trying to solve these social problems. (RJ)