Describes programs intended for the retired and/or those close to retirement. Statistics are given on increased life-expectancy in Finland, thus justifying the need for such programs. (LF)

Describes the results of a study to determine the relationship of various social and personal factors to adjustment and to identify the attitudes, values and motivations which either facilitate or retard adjustment. Provides guidelines for planning adult education programs to revitalize the rural people in war affected areas. (RB)

Explores the Leninist conception of ways in which individual characteristics can be viewed in terms of general laws of social development; how scientific typologies of the individual offer means for discovering the essence of social phenomena; and how a change in human nature involves a modification of social relationships. (JB)

Attempts to locate adult education in the tradition of social policy analysis which has long been concerned with social welfare and, more recently, with schooling. Considers the idea of social control as it has figured in the context of social welfare policy and schooling. (JOW)

Recent contact with harmonic and popular music has radically changed traditional forms of Indian music. The impact of Western music on classical styles, the social role of folk and popular music, and aspects of the social structure of music are discussed. (AM)

In order to provide information missing from elementary and secondary educational materials, briefly reviews the history, geography, and current political, economic, demographic, and social characteristics of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Some information is also given about Costa Rica, Panama, and Belize.

Power dependence theory and anticompetitive theory/sex strategy research were used to study a power v a socialization perspective. Results indicate that neither theory adequately explains perceptions or behavior in mixed sex groups. A sex stratification perspective can illuminate societal reasons for sex differences. (Author/GC)

Provides an analytical framework within which hypotheses of class structure are brought to bear in the formulation of models describing occupational mobility. In addition, the article presents seven falsifiable hypotheses about the social class structure of occupational mobility and assesses them within the new framework. (Author/DB)

Examines trends in participatory research and the need for clarification of it as a process of "disindoctrination" to the status quo and a means of bringing about the structural transformation of society. Issues of popular organization and strategies for increasing viability are discussed. (SK)

Discusses the legal rights of the ancient Roman paterfamilies (head of the household) and how these rights were exercised in actual practice as dictated by the conventions of Roman society. (Author/CK)

Reviews the argument presented in Wilson's book "The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions." Points out weaknesses in Wilson's argument and shows that its widespread interpretation to the effect that racism is fading is not supported by the evidence presented in the book. (GC)

Treatments of contextual effects in the social science literature have traditionally focused on statistical phenomena more than on social processes. This article seeks to redress that imbalance by focusing on underlying processes through which social structure and social interaction may impinge upon individuals. (Author/JKS)