Investigates longitudinally the relationships among coping with uncertainty, nonsubstitutability, and subunit power in nine health care clinics of three subunits each. Results show previous power position to be the main predictor of subsequent power. Includes 27 references. (MLH)

Examines the three major critical works that have documented the role of children in a consumer culture and the specific role of advertising in the creation of that culture. Discusses perspectives from political economy, textual analysis, and cultural studies. (SR)

Describes power and its sources, and identifies factors that can contribute to the organizational powerlessness of special librarians: nature of work; contributions difficult to measure; underdeveloped utilization of expertise; removal from circle of management elite; and small staff. This situation can be mitigated by awareness, planning, and…

Critically examines community development assumptions through historical analysis and mapping of political discourse. Using the methods of Foucault, Said, and Gramsci, demonstrates how participatory research, concerned with releasing people's knowledge through transformation, can expose and resist dominant discourses. (SK)

Claims that the cooperation and collaboration necessary for an environmentally literate society must also be practiced in organizational structures. Provides an example of the Council of Outdoor Educators of Ontario annual general meeting where an initial "power at the front" format changed to a meeting in a circle that fostered…

Summarizes some general observations on the issue of power. Distinguishes three approaches to the question of power: the origins of power; the methods by which power is exercised; and the consequences of power. Considers the process by which power is legitimated in the ecology of theater activity. (RS)

To develop a perspective that encourages Muslim women to see literacy as meaningful, both women and Islam need to be envisioned differently. Orthodox interpretations of Islam have obscured its most fundamental principle of the equality of all human beings. (SK)

Examples from a variety of sources (history texts, newspaper reporting, courts) are used to show that truth telling is commonly subordinated to other goals, especially the self-justification or the profits, power, and prestige of those promoting the lies. (24 references) (Author/LB)

Successful leadership calls for a skillful interplay of power, politics, and ethics, qualities commonly thought to be incompatible. For the future of higher education, colleges and universities must learn how to recruit leaders with this combination of attributes and restructure the reward system to help them maintain their leadership. (MSE)

Discusses beliefs about knowledge, power, authority, and responsibility. Considers the difficulties these formulations create for women writers and how they are similar for student writers. Suggests strategies for infusing personal understandings with professional/academic writings. (SR)

Examined within-session interactional behavior in four brief-therapy cases, two characterized by high alliance and two by low alliance. Coded message units along dimensions of power and involvement. In all cases, there was general pattern of high power for therapists and low power for clients. High-alliance clients evidenced larger proportions of…

Offers a feminist critique of civil society, especially as it is constituted in cyberspace. Uses the International Kurdish Women's Studies Network to illustrate how cyberspace reproduces the unequal divisions of power existing in "realspace." (SK)

This article introduces the topic of this special issue of the journal. Explains the separate worlds hypothesis, discusses feminist critiques of separate worlds, and introduces children's gender indexing and considerations of culture, context, and power. (Author/VWL)

Refers to Bourdieu's publication "Language and Symbolic Power," to explain the unwillingness of member states of the European Union to grant another language (other than English, French, and to a lesser degree German) recognition: an official language can be considered as linguistic capital that affords holders symbolic power.…

Examined a teachers' relations with his students when he returned to the elementary classroom during a sabbatical from the university. Data from journal entries and reflections suggest that teacher-student relations are characterized by a negotiative process reflecting the situational nature of the relationship in the context of the larger…