People have enough trouble defining themselves and determining what they want in life when they operate within a single language and culture, but the job gets trickier when they live in a world of multiple lexicons, grammars, histories, cultures, audiences and social systems, where identity and perceptions vary by language context. This paper…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to show that changes in social systems do not occur randomly. They are consistent with what has gone on before, with the history and identity of the system. As long as the organizing principles of a dominant culture remain unchallenged, behavior of all the social-units originating from this culture will remain…

This study was conducted in the framework of the study "Cultural Capital and the Reproduction of the Intelligentsia in Poland and Russia." The authors undertook an attempt to test the hypothesis advanced by authors such as P. Bourdieu and G. Eyal, I. Szelenyi, and E. Townsley concerning the return of the dominating role played by…

A discussion of how a tensor theory can be adapted to provide a fully quantitative analysis of a social system. A social tensor is developed from the physical analogue and used to analyze the structure of an education course. (Author/HB)

Three models which reflect the differences in criminal justice -- the nature and relationships of roles, rules, and institutions -- are reviewed, and a fourth is suggested. (Author/KM)

This article is a review and discussion of Walter Rodney's recent book on African history entitled "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa." (HMD)

Predicting the future of social systems is useful, but barely possible. Essential to the social sciences is a random element, knowledge, and there is no way of predicting what will be known in the future. The non-random elements, however, allow some predictions. Demography predicts underpopulation in developed countries and the opposite in…

An eye-witness to what he discusses here, the author shares his observations on education in several communist states. (Editor/CB)

At a time when the term Facist'' has surfaced again as a common epithet in the parlance of many political groups, a closer look at the relationship of youth to the Facist movements of the interwar years is certainly in order. (JB)

Suggests that states evolve in response to ecological or social circumscription, or resource concentration. When dense populations develop, fighting over land forces loser into political subordination or incorporation. This modification of coercive theories explain lack of state in Amazon basin and origin of Inca, Maya, Hwang Valley states.…