Examines how gender, class, and power together constitute the fundamental social, economic, cultural, and political relations that determine any social system. (RM)

The author argues that democracy as a political entity received its fundamental change through Rousseau, who proclaimed egalitarianism as the key element of political freedom. It is argued that Maoism takes the egalitarian principle to its ultimate conclusion: not only are all men considered equal, but they must act equal. (MJB)

In interviews, 25 Internet users in a university setting described the nature of the Internet and its social uses (information source, communication tool, social system, object or site of consumption). Issues and concerns identified included access, inappropriate marketing activities, and the addictive potential of Internet use. (SK)

Three books examine works of Paulo Freire and the concepts of critical pedagogy and emancipatory education as they relate to current world political situations: dominance of neoliberal politics on one hand and Brazil's election of a working-class president on the other. Freire's thinking can be a foundation for a new leftist "common…

Reflects on the basic conditions of social and educational interaction in the world, drawing on writings in the field of sociological theory and social philosophy, most notably those of Talcott Parsons and Niklas Luhmann, using these insights to analyze the elementary problem of establishing a social relationship with educational purposes. Both…

Social defenses that have been used to keep anxiety at constructive levels (institutions, nations, families) are changing. Instead of career development, people need career transformation--the ability to deal with the continual process of change. (SK)

Interviews, observations, and surveys of 25 members of a nonprofit organization indicated that the majority of emotion work (expression or experience of emotion) involved suppression of anger; women, especially volunteers, performed most emotion work. These actions were associated with four systems functions: adaptation, goal attainment,…

The criticism movement against Pragmatism began in the early 1950s, and it did not end until the latter part of the 1970s. This movement plays a key role not only in popularizing philosophy study, but also in establishing the leading position of dialectical materialism in the academic world of China. In addition, it left a large amount of valuable…

This article suggests that sex education in Church schools should address the personal as political through proclaiming the liberating potential of incarnational theology. The author suggests that Christian sex educators should be alert to the construction and commodification of desire and its attendant capitalist implications. While resisting…

The authors present a dynamical multilevel model that captures changes over time in the bidirectional, potentially asymmetric influence of 2 cyclical processes. S. M. Boker and J. Graham's (1998) differential structural equation modeling approach was expanded to the case of a nonlinear coupled oscillator that is common in bimanual coordination…

An implicit normalization of the capitalist market model--in both the facilitation of human endeavors and our relationship to the earth--is clearly evident in the work of J. Gregory Dees, as it is in much organizational theory and education. To better understand the effects of this market mentality, a more critical approach to Social…

Fast knowledge can be considered part of fast capitalism, especially an emergent new generic form of capitalism based increasingly on forms of symbolic capital associated with the rise of global finance and associated with new information and communication technologies. In this essay, the authors first theorise fast knowledge in relation to fast…

Studying imagery, irrespective of the kind, must focus equally upon its aesthetic attractiveness, its sensory lures, and its oftentimes dubious social ideology. The terms "aesthetic" and "ideology" are addressed as problematic and are defined in current, ordinary language terms: aesthetics as visual appearances and their effects and ideology as a…

This article underscores the value of school counselors connecting their group work practice with ecological concepts of context, collaboration, interconnection, social system maintenance, meaning-making, and sustainability (Conyne & Cook, 2004; Conyne, Crowell, & Newmeyer, in press). The authors elaborate ecological group work (Bemak & Conyne,…

Despite the claims of a popular slogan, the world does not change one person at a time. It changes as networks of relationships form among people who share a common cause and vision of what is possible. This is good news for those who want to change public education. Making connections however is not the whole story. This article describes how a…