This paper explores two central processes that are basic to any social system's survival--adaptability and copability. They are not totally independent of one another and are complementary. Implications of these concepts and their contingent characteristics with other organizational variables are discussed. (Author)

The Micmacs of Canada have only had a couple of hundred years of contact with the white man and although at first glance their reserves appear acculturated, they are distinct cultural and linguistic entities who have survived the tortures, rigors, and challenges of Christianity and civilization. (JC)

Presents pro and con comments with regards to 1975 APA presidential address under the heading of the value of traditions. Other comments are subsumed under the headings of biological versus social evolution, and the genetic basis of behavior especially of altruism. (Author/AM)

America's economic system is re-examined in the light of cataclysmic changes which have occurred since 1932. Features of the New Deal and Fair Deal are highlighted. (Author/KM)

A study of the self-conceptions of migrants and settled Mexican-Americans reveals a significant difference in their self-evaluation: migrants have a more positive and more favorable view of themselves than settled Mexican-Americans. (Author/KM)

When a program of innovative change is proposed for a school, it may well be possible to predict which of the various subsystems of the school will offer the most resistance. The group who are required to make the greatest modification in their normal procedures of operation will raise the highest level of resistance. (Author)

The concept of an open society, wherein all the social, political and economic arrangements are open to criticism, is explored. The central role of education is considered to be the creation and maintenance of an open society. (Author/KM)

A detailed comparison is made between the conceptions of moral education as revealed in official publications in five different communities: the United States, the USSR, the province of Quebec in Canada, Japan and France. (Editor)

An evaluative survey of the influences shaping student beliefs to the left, particularly during the years of student activism. (JB)

Argues that pluralistic societies, characterized by the number of blocs, recency of colonial rule, and existence of several religious minorities, are not in essence racialist; racialism arises out of pluralism when one group has a powerful advantage over other groups, as in the U.S., South Africa, and Brazil. (RJ)

Excerpted from The People's Republic of China,'' No. 4 in the Issues in United States Foreign Policy series, the material discusses (1) Profile, (2) Customs, Etiquette, and Rhetoric, (3) Women in the P.R.C., (4) Cuisine, (5) Medicine and Health, (6) Education, (7) Language, and (8) Communes and Agriculture. (JB)

Defining adaptive capacity as the ability of an organism or a social system to cope with a wide range of environmental conditions, physical or social, the auth rs examine the relationship between education and each of the components of individual adaptive capacity. (JB)

When an engineering researcher changes from his work on things to research on people, he faces an array of new ethical questions, and a new view of scientific objectivity must be developed for the study of man and society. (IR)

Development of policy sciences constitutes a main effort to reconstruct the role of intellectualism and rationality in human affairs. (Author)

Though virtually fifty years separate contemporary sociology from publication of Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park and Burgess, this volume proposes an orientation to the descipline still worthy of consideration. (Author)