We examine how the shift from state socialism affects gender inequality in the labor market using multivariate models of employment exit, employment entry, job mobility and new job quality for 3,580 Russian adults from 1991 through 1997. Gender differences changed in a complex fashion. Relative to men, women gained greater access to employment,…

In this article I examine historic changes in the goals, conduct and outcomes of education policies in Vietnam from the 1940s to the present, under the Communist Party of Vietnam. Recent studies of Vietnam's education system centre on econometric and demographic analysis of education data dating back to the early 1990s, when Vietnam began an…

This paper discusses the transition from a national focus on food security during the last half of the 20th century to an emerging strategy on helping small-scale farm households increase farm income to reduce rural poverty. The basic proposition is that if extension is going to help increase farm incomes and rural employment, then it must shift…

The history of international education is intimately connected to the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union during the second half of the twentieth century. Graduate programs established at colleges and universities in the United States were the outgrowth of a need to create cosmopolitan experts, capable of demonstrating the…

This paper argues that, during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, universities have been captured by neo-liberal regimes of truth. We suggest that this may inhibit the "research imagination" within universities and, consequently, their role in the democratisation of knowledge. We consider the role of capital in the…

Building on previous critical research regarding student resistance to English Language Teaching (ELT), this paper illustrates Chilean high-school English teachers' use of narrative to make sense of ideological challenges from students. While the government of Chile is promoting English in connection with the nation's export-oriented economic…

The discourses and practices of neoliberalism, including government policies for education and training, public debates regarding standards and changed funding regimes, have been at work on and in schools in capitalist societies since at least the 1980s. Yet we have been hard pressed to say what neoliberalism is, where it comes from and how it…

This paper reports the key findings of a critical ethnography, which documented the enactment of the multiliteracies pedagogy in an Australian elementary school classroom. The multiliteracies pedagogy of the New London Group is a response to the emergence of multimodal literacies in contemporary contexts of increased cultural and linguistic…

A position paper which defines continuities and proposes actions to overcome dichotomies in the self, time, generations, biological and social rhythms, species and the unified world system. (ED)

This article analyzed reputation and social identity as a prelimenary understanding of the adolescent girl's social world. (Author/RK)

The author describes the model of social behavior in a social system first framed by Jacob Getzels, with the assistance of Egon Guba, in the middle 1950s. Significant changes in the conceptualization of organizational functioning have occurred in the years since then, though the methodological processes for studying that functioning have remained…

THE AUTHOR REVIEWS ONE OF THE BASIC SOCIAL SCIENCE CONCEPTS AS IT IS UTILIZED BY PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL SCIENTISTS, MAKING A CONCEPTUAL CLARIFICATION OF THE TERM "SYSTEM" AS IT RELATES TO THE FIELD OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION. INCLUDED IN THE ANALYSIS ARE KEY IDEAS EXPRESSED BY THE TERM, DISTINCTIONS THAT SERVE AS VALUABLE GUIDES IN…

THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY IS INTENDED TO PROVIDE RAPID, PRELIMINARY ACCESS FROM SEVERAL BROAD, SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVES TO LITERATURE ON EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION. ENTRIES ARE DIVIDED INTO FIVE CATEGORIES--(1) SOCIAL STRUCTURE, SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION, (2) SOCIAL STRUCTURE, SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN EDUCATION, (3)…

Major elements of the theory of social behavior formulated by Talcott Parsons are applied to a study of organization. The organizational model developed is based on Parsons' four functional imperatives of goal attainment, adaptation, integration, and pattern maintenance. Organizations are regarded as social systems distinguished by different…

This paper formulates a semiotic metatheory (theory of change) of human communication, in six analytical steps: First, semiology indicates that the coding function in communication relies on the nature of the signifier and the signified. Second, the nature of coding (as distinct from its function) is best described by social systems theory. Third,…