Author considers the ingredients necessary for a cultural revolution and its inner contradictions as a stumbling block for success. (RK)

Discusses the power struggle of the directors, past and present, of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. (PG)

Tests the hypothesis that an influence attempt that implies a power base which the counselor is not perceived to possess will increase resistance to accepting the influence (or conversely, decrease the likelihood of compliance). Subjects perceived interviewers as intended. (Author)

The major goals of this study are to identify dimensions of bureaucracy and alienation, to determine the relationship of these dimensions to second-order, or integrating, factors, and to determine the relationships between the integrating factors of bureaucratic structure and alienation. (Author)

Examines how the poor and minorities can create structural changes in local communities to better serve their collective interest, in the context of a rural county in California in which organizers actually designed and implemented political strategies which resulted in a new set of local power relationships. (Author/JM)

A new, effective mode of authority to face a growing anarchic ideology would be required to be open, public, and accountable; flexible and individualized; reduced in scope and independent of both private and governmental sectors. (KM)

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)

The present hierarchical relationship between school and central office is examined. An alternative decentralized system is suggested as a way to make open education possible and to bring about humanization. (Author/DN)

Three steps are suggested to improve the social and political positions in our country and to approach the goal of American democracy: (1) citizens must learn the rules of the game, (2) have a willingness to acknowledge the existence of problems, and (3) develop civic competence. (Author/JB)

Examines some aspects of the control apparatus of the Ontario school system from both a historical and an operational perspective. (DM)

A study of the school principal requires a framework for analysis which should provide a basis for studying the principal's use of power in striving for the goals of the school. Because of the power relationship involved, the Caudillo Model of South America seems a promising possibility. (Author/JN)

Overall aim of this paper is to identify and clarify a conceptual framework which can be used by educators to formulate a more adequate relation between public education and the democratic way of life. (Author)

Charges that the field of sociology fails: (i) to emphasize the common characteristics of deviants and nondeviants; (ii) to give due attention to undramatic" forms of deviance; and, (iii) to explore the role of power in defining deviance." (JM)