Formulates a middle-level theory that explains the process by which rhetroic is epistemic, using Foucault's notion of the discursive formation as a starting point. Discusses five theoretical units derived from Foucault--discursive practices, rules, roles, power, and knowledge--and relationships among them. Analyzes Disneyland, using Foucault's…

Discusses how the concept of index can be used to provide an extensive yet coherent account of communicative context, which can be integrated into the more general characterization of social relations provided by the study of institutional ideologies. (MM)

Investigates children's ability to recognize the legitimate authority figure in a structured authority situation. Thirty children at each of three age levels--5, 8, and 11 years--were administered the Authority Measure, an instrument designed to elicit children's reasoning about authority figures. (Author/RWB)

Describes how the matrilineal social structure of central Malawi, Africa, affects, to a considerable degree, the mode of transmission and content of oral tradition. Researchers should understand the way the matrilineal structure functions and, in particular, the bearing it has on the historical consciousness of informants. (RM)

Conflict episodes among first-graders were videotaped and analyzed. It appears that the function of social conflict among children is to build their small-group society and its structure: while arguing, children create political alignments, and thereby realize their practical interests within a changing set of social relationships. (KH)

Analyzes the sociological and psychological functions of the different forms of traditional Haitian dance. Describes uses of dances for recreation and play, social solidarity, externalization of emotions or sexuality, worship, and artistic expression. (KH)

Argues that contemporary television programming helps maintain the existing political, economic, and social systems by refusing to question basic American assumptions about social arrangements preferring to take these arrangements for granted as the natural conditions of human life. These characteristics are particularly clear in its treatment of…

This study attempts to ascertain whether particular structural arrangements and demographic features of a community were responsible for especially severe disturbances during the 1960s. (Author/AM)

The role of growth or nongrowth in futurology is addressed with members of the middle class categorized as senior salariat, middle mass, or underclass. Each category reflects different patterns of life within the working population. Social and political implications are discussed. (LBH)

This paper examines the history of environmental education in New Zealand over the last fifteen years, reviewing that history in the context of concurrent changes in the school curriculum and wider society. Preliminary conclusions concerning the potential role of environmental education as a socially transformative agent are developed as a lens…

This article focuses on the perception of the surface and deep dimensions of a society and its relation to competence. Participants were 117 students from various educational programs in a Swedish gymnasium who were exposed to videotaped projections of model societies on 2 occasions. They responded to 15 statements marking the degree of certainty…

The presentation of American style of perception and expectations for group behavior has often been avoided by professional history. Afro-American history has a unique contribution to make in exploring the myths of identity which have held our culture together. (Author/KM)

Examines the effects of social change on the role relationships and adjustment of Chinese Americans; some of the changes in the psychological and social characteristics of the Chinese are examined from empirical studies. (Author/JM)

A framework is offered with which to reconstruct Antimasonry and sectarian radicalism of the 1820's, as well as for other mass movements of the ante-bellum period. (Author/KM)