Outlines as a goal for the field of educational anthropology the study of how education after compulsory schooling is interpreted by its diverse participants. Suggests the study of acquiring educational credentials as another area that warrants exploration in the ongoing study of how postsecondary education helps to structure society. (SLD)

This paper examines similarities and differences between structuration theory, habitus and complexity theory, as theories of social change. The paper suggests that structuration theory and habitus can theorize change, but that complexity theory offers a more complete theory of change because it focuses on social production rather than…

This paper attempts to develop a more sophisticated notion of multiculturalism in Britain. It starts by examining the philosophical basis of the Crick Report on citizenship education to resolve the theoretical tension between liberal and multicultural approaches to the subject. To achieve this resolution, it compares the Crick Report to the Parekh…

This article explores the relationship of Foucault to Marxism. Although he was often critical of Marxism, Foucault's own approach bears striking parallels to Marxism, as a form of method, as an account of history, and as an analysis of social structure. Like Marxism, Foucault represents social practices as transitory and all knowledge and…

Author presents observations related to college students' informal manner of addressing authors when writing critically about literary works composed in the first person. Topics analyzed include students' relationship with the author depending on the literary work, and students' familiarity when addressing their elders and authority figures in the…

Network structures both enable and constrain the development of social relations. This research investigates these features by comparing the development of commitments in structurally enabled and structurally induced exchange relations. We integrate ideas from the theory of relational cohesion and the choice process theory of commitment. In an…

Successful leaders interact with group members and draw on their skills and knowledge. This paper examines some principles of interaction and socialization that support a view of effective leadership in schools--that of leadership as social validation. Inherent in the principal's job description is the tension between organizational socialization…

Excerpts of this speech highlights that the schools in the countryside provide a real opportunity for educating individuals by combining education and work; schools being based on concept that education and the training of an individual are closely related to productive work. (Author/AM)

Following recent thinking that sees organizations' structures as dependent on their environments, the authors consider characteristics of institutional sectors that affect the organizations arising within them. They first point out problems in present models relating organizations to their environments and discuss several "forerunners"…

Presents the conditions for promoting a nonviolent social order (participation, freedom, justice, distribution of wealth, and cultural life) and how changes in the method, structure and content of education can help to attain this nonviolent order. (PG)

This study examines both the cultural and situational explanations of poverty. It also demonstrates the ideological implications of both, and finally it suggests a new perspective, the relational perspective. Chapter 1 examines the cultural perspective, according to which the lower class is seen as manifesting patterns of behavior and values which…

A conceptual model of the rhetorical community that addresses the sociodramatic processes through which social order evolves, is maintained, can change, and is threatened is presented in this paper. Following an introduction, the paper identifies the various uses of rhetorical vision and rhetorical community that are found in fantasy theme…

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…

Previous attempts to describe the "structure" of social systems have failed either because of the researcher's presuppositions about the system or because of his inability to deal with the massive amounts of data that a human system necessarily generates. Recent advances in computer software, Network Analysis Program (NEGOPY). have made…