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)

The purpose of this article is to examine the present academic milieu in terms of the relationship between social structure and the composition of student cultures in higher education. (Author)

Argues that the classroom situation may be a detriment to learning. (DD)

Three sample lessons for elementary grades are designed to help make children aware that one of the major features of modern society is its increasing interdependence. Each lesson focuses upon the concept of systems and subsystems in society. (SM)

Sequel to an article published in the Feb-Mar 1973 issue; third article to follow. (DD)

Argues that a value and action-oriented sociology is needed to rectify the imbalances in the discipline of sociology today, and that for our type of society this must be a political sociology. (Author/JM)

In this paper the main focus was placed on the relationships between three educational branches that exist at the local level as well as their relationships with the surrounding environment. (Author)