Author feels that ombudsman function should properly be performed by dean of students and his staff. If they are not, changes should be made in organization, personnel, and process of school - not by addition of another bureaucrat. (Author/CJ)

Argues that administrative team management tends to produce a united effort in governing schools, is compatible with the best concepts of collaborative management, and allows educators to deal as a group with complex issues. (FL)

Power dependence theory and anticompetitive theory/sex strategy research were used to study a power v a socialization perspective. Results indicate that neither theory adequately explains perceptions or behavior in mixed sex groups. A sex stratification perspective can illuminate societal reasons for sex differences. (Author/GC)

Examines trends in participatory research and the need for clarification of it as a process of "disindoctrination" to the status quo and a means of bringing about the structural transformation of society. Issues of popular organization and strategies for increasing viability are discussed. (SK)

Responding to Woodward (Journal of Educational Thought; v12 n3 p190-96 Dec 1978), the author disagrees that youth's cynicism is traceable solely to the skepticism evoked by modern science. Rather, he finds it expicable in the unchallenged sway of empiricism--the dominant interpretation of science under capitalism. (Author/SJL)

Discusses a study in which 50 introductory college-level sociology textbooks were examined to determine how the concept of power was treated. Findings indicated that power is generally presented as a macro-level phenomenon, with emphasis on institutionalized and legitimated forms of power. (Author/DB)

This paper describes the primary relationships between collective negotiations, pursuit of the public interest, and the protection of client interest affected by school labor relations policies. (MM)

Discusses the inadequacy of correspondence as a theory of the relationship both among all social institutions and between the school and other powerful socioeconomic forces. Notes implications for educational action. (Author/MK)

Four measures of influence in intercorporate networks are tested, using data from a sample of large American corporations in 1904. Comparison with historical accounts of the period indicate that modifications of the Bonacich index of a point's centrality in a network yield the most reliable results. (Author/RW)

A set of propositions on organizational stratification drawn from functional theory is examined. Data are used from 38 departments of a large university as well as from individual faculty survey responses. It is suggested that organizational features act as symbolic devices which inform others that a given organization is a competent member of its…

An alternative conceptual framework to the traditional hierarchical bureaucratic picture of organizations is the "organized anarchy." How collective decisions are made, what university administrators can do to influence the input, process, and outcome of anarchic decision making, and points of leverage are discussed. (Author/MLW)

Examines educational theories of John Dewey. Concludes that Dewey's world view could have the effect of depriving a variety of classes of the political and social consciousness necessary to effectively confront those in power. Notes the attractiveness of Dewey's system to the liberal educators of his time. (Author/KC)

This investigation studied the relationship between personality and influence means by additional measures of personality in the marriage relationship. One such measure is based on the Eriksonian development approach. (Author)