Argues that the traditional black church appears latently able and well-placed to complement the effort of the black family to prepare its young children to be black and proud in a white-dominated society. (Author/JM)

Discusses women's studies, the growing expansion of women's movement, and sex role stereotypes as they affect teachers. (RK)

Paper attempts to analyse the factors constraining the use of primary and secondary level schools as instruments for planned political socialization. (Author)

Appraises the assumptions underlying much of the work in urban education by reviewing the deficit system'' model, the cultural pluralism'' model and the radical vanguard'' model; and by proposing an alternate competencies'' model drawing on ethnomethodology for theoretical justification. (Author/JM)

The examination of a city in Texas provided data for the support of the thesis that an increase in vertical ties contributes to the development of a pluralistic power structure within a community; the traditional power relations and supporting normative patterns within the isolated minority community serve to inhibit competitive political…

An analysis of the Mexican American today in view of the processes to which he has historically been subjected. (JB)

Surveys the development of the concept of individual status inconsistency, criticizing its utility and suggesting that it be recast as a collective rather than individual phenomenon. (JM)

A number of third-grade social studies texts were analyzed with regard to six categories: civic orientations, benefits received, value words, symbolic references, authority figures and hero images. The political world...presented in these textbooks is one in which authority is benevolent and social conflict is minimal. (Author)

The utility of a crisis intervention approach for helping preadolescents build competency in behavior control is demonstrated. The following dimensions are highlighted: immediacy of intervention, trust relationship, structural interventions, facilitating versus controlling, problem solving orientation, and mobilization of group membership…