The purpose of this presentation is to examine changing perspectives of rural development in an effort to better understand change in rural social systems and to analyze interactions between systems in general. The 1st section of this report is devoted to an analytic framework for intersystem interaction which entails a donor/recipient construct…

This unannotated bibliography provides a somewhat complete listing of items published from 1948 to 1970 on the subject of African socialism. Though relevant material from allied subjects has been included, an effort has been made to stay rather closely within the confines of this topic. The bibliography covers Africa as a whole, however it does…

This study examines how schools are organized as social systems and applies concepts and methods used by anthropologists in actual field settings in education. The five objectives established in the study are: (1) develop in-depth ethnographic records of high schools as social systems; (2) diagram the web of networks that make up the social…

This instructors' manual represents the culmination of a development program in the area of application of anthropological theory and techniques to the field of education. It is intended to help prepare graduate students in anthropology and in educational administration as well as other researchers and practitioners to view schools as social…

The report contains topics included in a plan for research on academic groups and collectives which might be as follows: The mechanism for regulating the effectiveness of people's interactions and conditions governing the selection and recruitment for academic groups and collectives; Methods of evaluating the social-psychological characteristics…

The author discusses the thought and behavior of educators faced with the growing gap between scientific rationality (application of linear procedures, cause-effect relationships, and other simplistic systems) and control of the schools, in the one hand, and the growing body of knowledge about the social reality of schools which eschews such…

Examines communication effects gaps in the levels of knowledge and adoption of new ideas between more-advantaged and less-advantaged segments of a social system. (MH)

The article presents (1) a theoretical perspective describing rural development in the People's Republic of China which allows for generalization and comparison to the other developing rural settings, and (2) four conceptual systematic variables, a concrete policy variable, and a series of illustrative propositions linking them. (NQ)

Discussed are Communist China's relationship to Russia, socialist innovations, treatment of minority groups, foreign relations, standard of living, life-style, and culture. The author concludes that western nations should normalize relations with China. Available from: American-Asian Educational Exchange, 88 Morningside Drive, New York, NY 10027.…

Suggests that what we are seeing in virtually every industrialized country for which there is data is a profound shift in values and institutional attachments that is producing all manner of rebellion. Without unacceptable reductions in personal liberty, we are not likely to reverse the world-wide change in values. (Author/AM)

Describes how the matrilineal social structure of central Malawi, Africa, affects, to a considerable degree, the mode of transmission and content of oral tradition. Researchers should understand the way the matrilineal structure functions and, in particular, the bearing it has on the historical consciousness of informants. (RM)

Describes the Jewish ghetto found in the Lower East Side in New York and gives a profile of its people. (AM)

Discusses the following: 1. Why self care is of such great interest today; 2. What initiatives have been taken thus far; 3. Issues related to self-care that have aroused considerable interest, and, 4. Research needs in self-care. (Author/AM)

Presents a social systems framework for mass communications research and traces the evolution of the model. (TO)

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)