Youth culture and counterculture in contemporary Western societies are complex phenomena that may be viewed from a variety of social science perspectives. The authors analyze these cultures as embodiments of demodernizing consciousness with which they hold they have considerable firsthand experience. (RJ)

Article gives origins of open education and predictions for a distinctly American version of open education. (GB)

The research on aging in a Valley Zapotec community in Mexico reported here takes into consideration the broad socio-cultural context through which life is experienced and the social psychological significance of developmental changes as these apply to people in maturity and old age. (Author)

Levi disputes Bell's belief (AA 511 929) that bourgeois culture has nothing intellectually respectable to counerpose to the adversary culture. (Editor)

A discussion in reaction to Bell's thesis (AA 511 929) of the reflection of, and influence on, culture in art. The author focuses on literature and argues that the function of literature is to provide multiple perspectives and to influence the reader, and that this it to the good. (Author/JB)

The changing status of people of lower socioeconomic backgrounds threatens the myths of the dominant society, which are being secularized by urban life, due to great encounters between those who are marginal and those who are central. The intergroup worker faces change in his role as a result of this secularization. (DM)

Discussion of the need for innovation in the university world. (IR)

Research in the area of environmental attitudes and natural resource use during the past century was reviewed. The three periods of greatest historical interest parallel the chronology of the movement itself. A preservation-utilitarian division and historiographical themes of conflict and consensus are reflected by its historians. (Author/AM)

The concept "patterns of cultural choice," defined as patterns of money and time use among which people may choose to some degree, is contrasted with terms such as lifestyle and subculture. Eight research articles, comprising this journal issue, which employ alternative strategies of isolating choice patterns, are introduced. (Author/RM)