The author describes the outline and content for an English course entitled Man's Search for Utopia." (LF)

An application of the Interrupted Time-Series, a quasi-experimental research design, in the sociology of law (law and social change). The effects of British Road Safety Act of 1967, concerning drinking and driving, were analyzed. (SE)

Criticizes the preparation of teachers, and offers several ways in which important changes in teacher education could come about. (Author)

The school as a social system is examined as it is and as it ought to be. The author argues for more concern with the process of being and becoming rather than with outcomes in the accumulation of knowledge. (JMF)

The application of nonequilibrium thermodynamics could lead to new ways of understanding social processes. (BB)

Reviews the theoretical and empirical literature dealing with functionalist and conflict perspectives of the social processes of rule-creation, rule-maintenance, and the relationship of these processes to deviant behavior. (DR)

Analyzes the social context of stimulant drug treatment. Explores the type of social change and social intervention that may be needed for effective treatment of hyperkinetic children with stimulant drugs and other methods of treatment. (Editor/RK)

Describes the emergence of scholarly thought that puts considerations of children and childhood at the center of the profound rethinkings of nationalism and the nation-state that have taken place within the last several decades. Introduces the international conference on children and nationalism from which articles in this journal derive, and…

Responds to Cottone's "Defining the Psychomedical and Systemic Paradigms in Marital and Family Therapy." Claims acknowledgement of political and economic contexts of family therapy would be wonderful news if it betokened new sensitivity. Concludes that, although there are questions about family therapy's market share, there can be no…

Discusses the use of simulation games in the development of social theory. Topics discussed include microsociological and macrosociological theory; the influence process in a game of community conflict; self-esteem in a high school social system game; and collective decisions and a theory of exchange of control over events. (LRW)

Discusses the importance of critical literacy education, and highlights its history in development of education settings. Outlines the steps in critical debate, and describes the three styles of formal debate. Notes that jurisprudential inquiry is a key instructional method for learning to think about social policy, and describes three competency…

Examines the essential features of prevention activities and relates them to modernity and social systems. Draws on systems theory to argue that prevention activities help to maintain, and yet weaken, boundaries by which social-system functioning is sustained. For this reason, preventive policy making can be described as recursive. (Author/KB)