"Ressentiment" is identified as a key concept for understanding educational issues, including research directions, demands for accountability, and individual and group experiences of schooling (particulary those of prisoners). (GW)

Report concludes that the communication techniques which aim to alter the social structure are more effective than those which aim to alter social attitudes. (CH)

A framework is provided for ethnographic studies of school cultures, specifically to study the affinity between the function of education and religion in society. (Author/KM)

The demands and tactics of the new" white ethnic groups have been inspired by and are similar to those of the blacks. Contemporary conflicts arise from the struggle over ethnic succession, differences in social structure and values, and the growing role of the federal government in promoting equality among groups. (Author)

Provides an overview of Canadian poverty in its biological, geographical, ecological, demographic, structural, psychological, cultural, and social dimensions, and suggests relevant references. (JM)

Traditional society, viewed as static with little differentiation or specialization as well as low levels of urbanization and literacy, and modern society, characterized as having thorough differentiation, urbanization, literacy, and exposure to mass media, are examined in situations of change as different models of social and political order…

Proposes that there are in the Western Hemisphere at least three examples of societies where the problems of race, color, and prejudice have essentially been solved through the operation of social mechanisms of three different types: Brazil, Jamaica, and Mexico. (Author/JM)