Describes power structure of corporations functioning under Theory W in which single leaders, in partnership with trusted followers, achieve corporate success. Basis of this industrial structure is attributed to social and developmental structures of prehistoric man and city states. Dimensions of W, X, Y, and Z theories are discussed. (MBR)

Analyzes effects of social structure changes on Latin American educational systems and investigates the segmentation and problems of the university system and higher education. Suggests innovation can be achieved by building up a new form of economic, social, and cultural organization for which education can pave the way. (TRS)

Discusses illiteracy in social structural terms, that is, as a predictable consequence of the routine workings of basic institutions in a class-based society. Shows how, in this context, illiteracy can be seen as a "rational" achievement. (CMG)

The current debate over the size and distribution of government patronage obscures a complexity of government influences in the cultural life of the nation. Various programs of the different departments of government foster and inhibit specific high-brow and popular forms. The most distant and yet most fundamental influence of government is in…

Argues that whether one refers to chicano institutions, Chicano programs, Chicano personnel or students they are all on the periphery of the overall academic enterprise, in terms of participation in governance, academic credibility, recognition and status, resource allocation, permanence and facilities: the role of higher education vis-a-vis…

A theoretical framework is presented which places psychological pathology in a context of human reciprocity. Reciprocity is described as a social dialectic circumscribing the way that the experiences of persons develop relative to one another. It includes, therefore, dimensions of individual development and interactive development. (Author/MS)

Discusses the implications of a society devised according to Skinner's Behavior Modification Theory. (SB)

Reports a study of the relationship between teacher-candidates' sociopolitical ideologies and their attitudes toward poverty and the disadvantaged among 591 undergraduate students of education at Indiana University and Southern Illinois University in the winter of 1971. (Author/JM)

Role-playing and creative dramatics provide children with practice in a great number of vital human concerns. A sample lesson for use in elementary grades is designed to help children understand systems thinking. A variety of global concepts are presented in the lessons. (SM)

In the study reported, the relative degree of diversity of techniques employed in sequencing classroom work flow was compared among 166 teachers from four public secondary schools. (Author)

Reviews a book by Christopher Jencks et al., examining a number of statistical correlations between income and schooling; and also books by Katz, Spring, and Greer respectively, examining the historical development of the American public school. (JM)

Appraises the assumptions underlying much of the work in urban education by reviewing the deficit system'' model, the cultural pluralism'' model and the radical vanguard'' model; and by proposing an alternate competencies'' model drawing on ethnomethodology for theoretical justification. (Author/JM)

Contends that the language of the suburbia--the language of the British middle class--is a dead language, because it has so few sources of contemporary enrichment and vitality, and because it is derivative and unoriginal and relies heavily on an imagery that stems from obsolete popular speech. (RJ)

Surveys the development of the concept of individual status inconsistency, criticizing its utility and suggesting that it be recast as a collective rather than individual phenomenon. (JM)

Examines the social, cultural, political, and economic circumstances in which the ethnic vote will be cast in the 1972 presidential election. (JM)