Investigates whether modern racism theory and research on prejudice-related discrepancies are distinct by determining the extent of association among measures of each form of conflict and the affective reactions associated with each form of conflict. Indicates virtually no evidence of overlap among the measures of conflict. Scores on measures of…

Teaching young people prosocial values and nonagressive responses to problems is challenging, especially in a culture valuing individuality and personal independence. This article describes two American value orientations (individual rights and multiculturalism) that engender personal aggression and outlines three strategies for coping with the…

Describes the founding, organization and structure, and relationship between social issues and funders of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. The institute's history and research have been marked by a commitment to societal concerns such as poverty, crime, race and inequality, social welfare policy, and community…

Discusses the value of role-play in developing interpersonal skills and presents a 10-step model to help performance technologists design effective role-plays. Highlights include training objectives; designing assessment instruments; task analysis; generality and demonstration; designing social-communicative problems for the content; practice; and…

Recommends using children's literature as a means for introducing social problems and their possible solutions to elementary students. Offers different trade books on homelessness and the elderly along with descriptions of each book. Provides guidelines and teaching resources for creating a service project where students interact with their…

Considers how biotechnology affects human-rights issues; in particular, the need for reexamining concerns about reproductive technology, the rights of indigenous peoples, and the rights of future generations. Maintains that the new areas for human-rights discussions, such as germ-line manipulation and genetic screening, are unprecedented concerns…

Discusses the results from a survey commissioned by Human Rights USA that investigated what individuals know and think about human rights issues in the United States. Asserts that the survey gives community activists, educators, and decision makers the means to analyze local and national human-rights problems and move toward solutions. (CMK)

States that resistance to human-rights principles derives from cultural views of life. Explains that the debate about human rights tends to be framed in terms of either a universal or relative standard of how countries should treat their citizens and how the citizens should treat one another. (CMK)

Presents a lesson on human rights for middle and secondary school students in which they identify human rights, cite examples of human-rights abuses and affirmations, and relate actions to the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Explains that students identify human-rights issues globally and at home. (CMK)

Examines the turning points in the social role of the general education school in Russia by exploring the social role of the schools in prerevolutionary Russia, moving towards the investigation of the Soviet school's social role, and finally focusing on the current conditions under which the social role of the schools functions. (CMK)

The argument presented is that although work is one path toward improved well-being for poor families, a successful and humane social welfare policy must recognize and respond to its limitations. This article reviews specific propositions of prowork rhetoric and concludes that former welfare participants require a broad range of supports to move…

This article identifies the different problems immigrants and refugees face in the United States, especially socioeconomic and psychosocial concerns that often relate to the experience of migration. Traditional familial roles and responsibilities are frequently challenged, exacerbated by sociocultural differences and inadequate understandings…

Actual empirical research that explores East Asian female international students' identity development is lacking. Therefore, a qualitative study was conducted to investigate how five East Asian female international students' identities are developed in a second-language environment, the United States. Challenging the conceptual approach that…

The social problems triggered by Internet are legion. Computer games and such high-tech achievements of the Internet that used to be regarded as "angels" are today frequently playing the role of "demons." As the times advance, Internet ethics have become a new challenge facing educational workers. Today, when our country is…

The challenges facing America's youth are multifaceted and include violence, drug abuse, gangs, school dropouts, suicide, delinquency, and despair. As President Bush made addressing these issues an agenda item during his second term, putting the youth in national spotlight, it is tempting to develop more programs designed to fix kids by providing…