The article presents (1) a theoretical perspective describing rural development in the People's Republic of China which allows for generalization and comparison to the other developing rural settings, and (2) four conceptual systematic variables, a concrete policy variable, and a series of illustrative propositions linking them. (NQ)

Discussed are Communist China's relationship to Russia, socialist innovations, treatment of minority groups, foreign relations, standard of living, life-style, and culture. The author concludes that western nations should normalize relations with China. Available from: American-Asian Educational Exchange, 88 Morningside Drive, New York, NY 10027.…

Suggests that what we are seeing in virtually every industrialized country for which there is data is a profound shift in values and institutional attachments that is producing all manner of rebellion. Without unacceptable reductions in personal liberty, we are not likely to reverse the world-wide change in values. (Author/AM)

Describes how the matrilineal social structure of central Malawi, Africa, affects, to a considerable degree, the mode of transmission and content of oral tradition. Researchers should understand the way the matrilineal structure functions and, in particular, the bearing it has on the historical consciousness of informants. (RM)

Describes the Jewish ghetto found in the Lower East Side in New York and gives a profile of its people. (AM)

Discusses the following: 1. Why self care is of such great interest today; 2. What initiatives have been taken thus far; 3. Issues related to self-care that have aroused considerable interest, and, 4. Research needs in self-care. (Author/AM)

Presents a social systems framework for mass communications research and traces the evolution of the model. (TO)

This essay discussed some of contemporary society's more urgent demands on the professions, developed a framework through which to categorize those demands, and examined what they portend for the professions. (Author/RK)

The author analyzes the theories of Peter Harper as expressed in Soft Technology' and Criticism of the Western Model of Development, Prospects'', Summer 1973. Support is given to Harper's rejection of the model of affluent society, but Sach's rejects the solutions to societal problems offered by Harper. (SM)

Discussed here is the development of educational methods for helping communists and Soviet people who are not members of the Party to gain a correct understanding of the world and the laws of social development, to understand the sense of phenomena and processes occurring in the world, to give them class-and Party-oriented values, and to combine…

In this paper the main focus was placed on the relationships between three educational branches that exist at the local level as well as their relationships with the surrounding environment. (Author)

Overall aim of this paper is to identify and clarify a conceptual framework which can be used by educators to formulate a more adequate relation between public education and the democratic way of life. (Author)

Author demonstrates how the new model can be used for more effective programming to bring about behavioral change. (Editor)

Presents a longitudinal analysis of the impact of the group's millenarian orientation upon its developmental career. Attention is focused upon long-term modes of adjustment to recurrent prophetic failures, examining the ways in which the sect has adapted its collective identity to meet such crises." (Author/SE)

Discusses the Chicano voice in helping to guide the urban-industrialized state such as California. (LS)