The young and rebellious are demanding the formulation of non-military oriented foreign policies and there is growing strength in Congress for the idea that the chief power of the United States grows from our economic and cultural influences rather than our military bases. (Editor)

Discusses the growing ethnic cohesion in the Black Power movement. (KG)

The paradox inherent in a situation in which the need for political unification requires submersion of authentic local or subregional differences is illustrated by the case of Occitania (southern France), where a community is culturally and linguistically removed from the center of a movement intending to represent it. (MSE)

Compared the academic perceptions and beliefs of liberal and conservative college students (N=460). Analysis of survey results showed liberals demanded more student participation and espoused more academic alienation. Liberals also evaluated the university academic environment more critically and perceived greater real-ideal discrepancies in…

Roosevelt is usually described as a liberal, but a number of recent books see him as essentially conservative. Suggests how these books can be used to study the New Deal era and the concepts of liberal and conservative. Comparative analysis could structure the teaching unit. (CS)

Investigated the degree to which children's (N=2,065) racial attitudes were related to their parents' racial attitudes. Results showed that children's attitudes were positively associated with parents' attitudes regardless of the parent's sex or child's age. Beginning at about age 12, girls' attitudes became more liberal and boys' attitudes more…

Respondents in a 1969 survey (n=400) of undergraduate men at the University of Michigan were resurveyed as alumni in 1979 (n=215). Former activists were disproportionately employed in human services areas of government and had shifted their main involvement from national to community affairs. (Author/PN)

"Alinsky methods," designed for confrontation, can include packing meetings, requesting marathon sessions, and using dramatic advertising. Developed by Saul Alinsky for oppressed people, the methods can be mitigated by 10 administrator actions, including building openness and trust, having good legal and public relations advice, and…

Institutionalized political violence underlies world problems such as war, genocide, dictatorship, and social oppression. Alternatives to political violence should be evaluated to determine their applicability. Educational institutions can contribute through research and through educational activities ranging from public awareness campaigns to…

Outlines elements of the mass society perspective, relative deprivation, and a differential socialization theory as explanations for individual activism. Integrates these into a structural equation model and applies the model to samples of White and Black adults, finding strong race-specific differences in the formation of political orientations.…

A study of randomly selected faculty at Tennessee's public community colleges concluded: 50.8 percent of respondents favor collective bargaining, sense of power is negatively correlated with attitudes toward collective bargaining, and five demographic variables (political opinion, religion, race, sex, organizational membership) are significantly…

Discusses the philosophies of assimilationist liberalism and cultural pluralism as they emerged between 1900 and 1925 in opposition to social Darwinism and the immigration restriction, eugenics, and Americanization movements. (GC)

The author argues that because citizenship education has such a long-term aim--adult behavior--it is very difficult for teachers or educational researchers to assess its results. Citizenship itself is a concept which varies over time and between countries. She reviews some European efforts at civic education. (SJL)

Examines how mass media exposure to election campaigns influences beliefs about the closeness of the election race, as well as how these beliefs influence the degree of involvement in the election. Data from the 1968 and 1972 presidential elections are analyzed and indicate that no such relationships exist. (JMF)