The author analyzes the theories of Peter Harper as expressed in Soft Technology' and Criticism of the Western Model of Development, Prospects'', Summer 1973. Support is given to Harper's rejection of the model of affluent society, but Sach's rejects the solutions to societal problems offered by Harper. (SM)

Discussed here is the development of educational methods for helping communists and Soviet people who are not members of the Party to gain a correct understanding of the world and the laws of social development, to understand the sense of phenomena and processes occurring in the world, to give them class-and Party-oriented values, and to combine…

In this paper the main focus was placed on the relationships between three educational branches that exist at the local level as well as their relationships with the surrounding environment. (Author)

Overall aim of this paper is to identify and clarify a conceptual framework which can be used by educators to formulate a more adequate relation between public education and the democratic way of life. (Author)

Author demonstrates how the new model can be used for more effective programming to bring about behavioral change. (Editor)

Presents a longitudinal analysis of the impact of the group's millenarian orientation upon its developmental career. Attention is focused upon long-term modes of adjustment to recurrent prophetic failures, examining the ways in which the sect has adapted its collective identity to meet such crises." (Author/SE)

Discusses the Chicano voice in helping to guide the urban-industrialized state such as California. (LS)

A new kind of political history needs to be written. It should incorporate the knowledge and methodologies of the other social sciences as well as making politics part of general history. Politics as the study of power involves a type of analysis few nonprofessional historians are capable of conducting. (Author/MB)

A scale is developed by employing a form of item analysis called trace line analysis. Statistically significant associations with variables expected to be related to familism support the validity of the scale. (Author)

Investigated the effectiveness of an innovative method of counseling, Rapid Problem Resolution (RPR) with chronically unemployed rehabilitation clients. Counselors used the RPR technique with 29 problem clients whose cases were about to be closed unsuccessfully. In this study, 19 of the 26 clients were rehabilitated. (Author)

Concern exists that youth leaving the kibbutz have no occupation skills needed to secure work in the outside world. In a survey, two opposing hypotheses were examined: (1) kibbutz-born persons will be unable to adapt to outside life because of educational limitations; and (2) because of their education, kibbutz-born persons will display…

The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands has had a program of vocational rehabilitation since 1974. These islands have been under the trusteeship of the United States since 1946. Describes some concerns, some efforts to deal with them, and future directions for its Vocational Rehabilitation Services. (Author/RK)