Traditional scholarship on social movements has emphasized external rhetoric and the role of the leader, rather than the internal dynamics of social movement organizations. This paper is an argument for the integration of experiences and meanings related to membership. Belle Edson's feminist critique of social movement studies provides a framework…

Critical approaches to the study of society and organizations tend to favor theories and models that stress the complexity and multiplicity of social factors and processes and the relations between them. In conceptualizing the relationship between social structure and human agency, critical theorists have attempted to walk a fine line between…

In a study of the social ecology of preschool peer interaction, independent measures of agonism and object conflict were employed to investigate relations between dominance, competition, and prior possession of object. In addition, independent measures of affiliation and object exchanges were employed to investigate further possible relations…

A study examined the social status of the members of the social sets of preschool children. For 8 weeks, interactions of 3- and 4-year-olds were observed in 8 classrooms. Interaction scores were standardized, and members of each social set were identified as popular, average, or unpopular. Findings indicated that for 3- and 4-year-olds, 39% and…

A history of primary school curriculum in Guyana, a former British colony, points out social determinates of curriculum. Ruling groups emphasized agriculture and manual arts in public education to maintain class distinctions while the masses fought for academic education as a key to financial and social success. (JH)

Author considered the feminist movement, discriminatory attitudes toward working women, and ideas about people's collective participation in design. (Author/RK)

THIS DOCUMENT IS AN INTERIM REPORT OF A 1967 SEMINAR HELD AT WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY. THE GOAL OF THE SEMINAR WAS TO PREPARE A SUBSTANTIVE PROPOSAL FOR FIELD RESEARCH CONCERNED WITH THE CULTURE AND STRUCTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION AS IT IS NOW DEVELOPING IN AMERICAN SOCIETY. (HM)

Research indicates that leadership among children is a function of the group and that situations can be manipulated to encourage leadership. Teachers can intervene to influence the development of positive forms of leadership in all children. Three areas for teacher involvement are apparent. Teachers can (1) become more sensitive to their own…

The authors sought to test Homans' proposition that small groups inevitably generate a social structure which combines subgroups (cliques) and a ranking system. We present a graph theoretical model of such a structure and prove that a necessary and sufficient condition for its existence is the absence of seven particular triad types. Expected…

General role structure theory is explained in algebraic models. (DE)

Presents a path analytic model that both measures local health system differentiation and explains differences between communities in a causal manner. The policy relevance of this model is discussed. (Author/AM)

Surveyed 420 Dublin adults to examine attitudes toward the role and status of women in Ireland. Results indicated that males, older people, and those of lower SES background held more traditional attitudes and were less likely to favor social policies associated with greater equality. (JAC)

Explains thesis that a knowledge of the way of life of neolithic nucleate settlements might serve as a yardstick against which to measure innovations in educational work. (JH)

Reviews the last two issues of "Principal" and offers the author's optimistic view of the future of the family. (IRT)