Academic patterns of power (over students, curriculum, etc.), pretense (faculty claims about competence and experience), and piggybacking (conversion of institutions into education conglomerates) reveal some ethical issues. The patterns are deeply rooted, each with historical reason for being and current justification, yet each has outcomes that…

Discusses a new focus for the principal: establishing for faculty members a feeling of proprietorship in the school. (Author)

Examines the concepts of and relationship between responsibility and authority. Identifies seven characteristics of educational systems (authority, interdependence, the unified whole, goals, evaluation, correction, and knowledge) as central to an analysis of educational responsibility. Suggests restructuring the educational system on a…

Depicts two common views of the principal--the effective leader and the low-profile administrator--and outlines a more realistic view: the principal who realizes constraints but exercises authority as fully as possible. (Author/JM)

Data collected from a sample of farmers representing 15 Pakistani villages show that greater equality in village power distribution is positively related to greater adoption of agricultural technology as analyzed at the village level. When effects of water control are parceled out, the power-adoption relationship is strengthened. (LC)

Applies the concept of control to organizations. Argues that organizations have been constructed over time on the basis of different modes of control of the labor process. The modes of control become specialized for different socioeconomic classes within organizations in reaction to historical cycles of capitalist development. (Author/RW)

This paper outlines the major features of educational bureaucracy today, notes the myths about bureaucracy, and suggest ways of more effectively coping with the bureaucratic phenomenon. (Author/KC)

Uses data from a survey of 316 social service agencies in 17 communities to examine factors affecting the influence attributed to an organization, including the organization's centrality in a resource network, the outside constraints on its relationships with other agencies, and its strategies of relationship formation. (Author/RW)

The article discusses the role of middle managers in an independent school setting and their relation to school heads. It suggests 14 principles of operation to meet the needs of school middle managers and to help clarify the role of the educational middle manager. (SB)

The events and statements surrounding the execution of Gary Gilmore are depicted as rhetorically appealing because they embody the symbolic form of power vs powerlessness. Gilmore defeated symbols of the powerful by strategically co-opting two bases of power, physical force and moral force. Warns of the dangers of rhetorical drama. (JMF)

Power in the university is seen as the academic division of labor that creates a number of self-sufficient units responsible for the production of academic work. Two kinds of reforms in higher education, efficiency and participation by disenfranchised groups, have affected the power structure of higher education institutions. (Author/MLW)

Summarizes the themes of a conference sponsored by the Association of Canadian Community Colleges and by the Society of the Publication Critere, Inc., during which the individual's right to action and decision beyond the control of professional groups was examined within the framework of law, politics, and the arts and sciences. (JP)

It is reported that research on the socioeconomic achievement process has begun to generate anomalous findings, many of which involve occupational status as conventionally measured. The author proposes a theory of vertical occupational differentiation based on the role activities of occupational incumbents. (Author/RLV)

In an attempt to analyze systematically where power is and why it accumulates where it does, this study identifies how a voluntary consortium in higher education perceives the power systems in the institutional hierarchy. (MB)

Explores the growing concentration of ownership and control over the National Information Infrastructure (NII). Examines efforts of copyright owners to extend their control over information and cultural products into new media markets. Discusses the commercialization of the NII, and points out concentration, commodification, and commercialization…