This book contains speeches by Celeste Ulrich, the 1976-77 president of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. There are six speeches on the significance and meaning of physical education, six speeches on sociocultural implications of sport and physical education, and three speeches on the future of athletics and…

Projections about the interaction between business and society from 1971-75, made by a panel of 23 businessmen and students, are reported. Respondents each answered two questionnaires; the second questionnaire was based on results from the first, to make projections more precise. Respondents predicted that militant acts directed against business…

It can be argued that denimization, or the increasing popularity of denim clothing, is a movement away from conspicuous consumption by the rich and an aping of the rich by the middle class. (DS)

Presents a review of social trends having significance for women's gender roles, identifies potential implications of these trends for home economists, and makes observations about these implications for the personal lives of women who are home economists. (JOW)

This article describes French life in the French town of Cahors, and stresses the fact that while French life is definitely changing, it is important to search out the traditional aspects of French thinking and customs in order to understand the limits and meaning of the current modernization. (CLK)

The "Research & Action Report," published twice a year, is a window on the activities and initiatives at the Wellesley Centers for Women. The report typically features news about the Centers, interviews with researchers, commentary on recent events or social trends affecting women and girls, announcements of new publications, and much more.…

Sociological and philosophical ramifications of the increasingly popular concept of short-term and long-term retreats from the city are examined in this study. (RL)

Describes the Centro Intercultural de Documentacion (CIDOC) in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The center is dedicated to the search for new alternatives for positive social change, and was started by Ivan D. Illich. (GB)

Article, condensed from the NEA Research Bulletin, describes the magnitude of the world literacy problem. (MB)

From an anthropological viewpoint, the author examines the relationship of modern-day youth with his "multidimensional world, whose components are science, creation, knowledge, language, society, power and man. (LC)

The author concludes that while at present many feminists are trying to create a female culture, they would be better advised to aim for power bases instead. (Author)

The authors discuss a series of studies in which the main concern is with how, or if, teachers have particular attitudes about the language of school children. (Author/MS)

French intellectual thought changed during the Napoleonic Era. The effects of the Enlightenment philosophers, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and Romanticism on the development of Napoleon's philosophical outlook are used to illustrate the changes occurring in France as a whole in the early nineteenth century. (AM)