Adolescent use of sex as a vehicle for coping with authority is by no means always pathological. Adolescents are normally progressing into full heterosexuality. Some cultures force adolescents to break tabus and defy prohibitions in order to exhibit normal sexuality. They thus incur automatic definition as being bad by the defining authorities. It…

Address given at annual meeting of Association of American Colleges (Houston, Texas, January 1970). (IR)

Changes in the authority patterns, scholastic procedures and faculty-student relationships at colleges and universities are going to continue through peaceful and violent demonstrations. (JK)

Beginning on the front cover, this article advises superintendents how to identify and gain access to the community power structure in order to achieve the community's educational goals. Five basic ways that schools may react to power are identified. (MLF)

Posits that increased communication of community leaders involving relatively short communications paths should lead to program success. However, measures of connectivity and average distance in the communications structure reveal no significant relationships. Suggests other factors which may be more important to rural community development…

Investigated the effect of spousal power distribution on marital quality among Black couples. Demonstrated that the husband-led power pattern was associated with the highest levels of marital quality and that egalitarian and wife-led couples reported similar, lower levels of marital quality. (Author/RC)

Seeks, in a reasoned analysis, to bring to the consciousness of home economists a model underlying thought and action in the home economics profession. (CT)

The author analyzes the responses of males and females to interruptions in same-sex and cross-sex conservations. She uses these results and related research to suggest that the significance of actions changes according to gender and to consider the implications for managers who are women. (SK)

The author maintains that the future direction of primary education is in the hands of primary school headteachers because of the development of professionalism in a bureaucracy. A decision making model is presented to aid in understanding the complex processes of control and decision making. (KC)

Operationalizes garbage-can theory into a stochastic process model for the case of a traditional Weberian bureaucracy. Illustrates how ambiguity may impinge on decision making within a structural setting familiar to classical organization theorists and derives the managerial implications of garbage-can theory. (Author/IRT)

Examines the use of influence diagrams to help understand political processes within organizations. This technique is illustrated through a case study of a new extended care facility connected to a hospital. (Author/IRT)

To look at Maxine Hong Kingston's novel "China Men" for its mythic aspects is to overlook the fact that it is a novel about work and class. It condemns a patriarchal capitalist world that exploits both male and female workers and dissects the gender and race issues uncovered by such exploitation. (SLD)

Reports on research on the power and status of nonnative English-as-a-Second-Language teachers in Hong Kong. (JL)

Distinctions are made between tolerance, tacit approval, and acceptance, particularly within the context of culture and social power structure. It is concluded that in a world of unequal power, claims of tolerance on the part of the powerful who do nothing to assist the powerless whom they tolerate are unacceptable. (MSE)