Investigates the relationship between widespread childhood poverty and the effect of deep parental rootedness in nonaffluence, focusing on middle-class Blacks. As a group, disproportionate numbers of them have experienced poverty. Results indicate attitudinal and behavioral legacies of poverty and suggest interclass similarities in the Black…

Investigates the levels of political efficacy reported by college students in the United States, England, and India. Discusses the factors that influence political efficacy in each culture including educational faculty, gender, age, religion, language, residence, economic status, student's characteristics, interest in politics and party…

Provides a strategy to enhance student understanding of the ambience of a decade by having them research the relationship between events of the 1970s; society's attitudes; and the country's mood in general. Student groups prepare and present research papers, which are used as discussion topics. (LS)

Surveys extent to which policymakers, practitioners, and retirees anticipate need for increased support services for aging population. Suggests policymakers and practitioners recognize that additional tax revenue and allocation will help obtain additional services. Calls for balance between desire for services and willingness to pay for them.…

Compares political attitudes of West German and U.S. twelfth-year students 16 to 18 years old. Analyzes 39 items of an 80-item questionnaire from a cross-sectional survey of 552 West German and 483 U.S. students. Finds that West German students are more questioning and realistic than U.S. students. (KO)

Discusses the need for critical review of expert scientific findings used in the development of social policy. Uses the case of dissent from the Institute of Medicine's report on health care for the homeless to illustrate the conflict between scientific and practical moral objectivity. (FMW)

Argues that when writing teachers write they must ask themselves to what extent they reinforce the strategies of a social order that coerces agreement and to what extent they struggle against them in the high-stakes arena of social change. Analyzes recent composition scholarship and its theoretical bases to show that writers' shifting…

Examined the conceptions of freedom of speech and religion held by 48 adolescents and young adults, using a structured interview containing assessments of civil liberties in general, in straightforward applications, and in conflict with other social and moral concerns. Findings indicate that sophisticated conceptions of civil liberties emerge by…

Examines congruence of attitudes toward economic development between rural community residents and local government officials in rapidly growing northern New Hampshire. Profiles and compares survey subjects' sociodemographic characteristics, community tenure, and general attitudinal disposition. Results highlight substantive differences between…

Analyses relationship between gender and confidence in science. Argues that, as women form larger part of labor force and tax base, scientific fields must seek to increase women's generally lower levels of confidence in science. Reports no change in trend of confidence in science between 1973 and 1989, but shows significant and widening gap…

Issues in resettlement of women and children, who make up about 80 percent of refugees of concern to the United Nations, are discussed. Bias toward males in the admission of refugees for resettlement demonstrated in data for 1985-91 for the United States, Canada, and Australia may exist elsewhere. (SLD)

Inconsistent decision making of the United States government on environmental issues is described. Discussed are the health risks of alternatives, environmental group leadership, the role of the news media, and the role of the government. (KR)

Discusses various approaches to analysis of ethnic unrest in the former Soviet Union. With the collapse of the communist system in 1991, ideology has been replaced by ethnicity as the driving force in politics. The failure of the regime to address ethnic issues doomed it. (SLD)

Stresses key areas of political conflict in the certification of a national curricular content and explores trade-offs a national-standards approval group must make. The article analyzes left-wing support for explicit opportunity-to-learn standards and right-wing objections to educational outcomes and focuses on initial approval stages, not…

Studied possible relationship of political socialization during youth to the personal values of adulthood. Also studied influence of adult values on one's ideas about socialization of next generation. Of particular interest were societal mandates in China during the 1950s and 1960s. Parental values were found to reflect, in a general way, values…