Better-integrated, more comprehensive models in the social sciences for practitioners involved in policy making and administration are needed. Marxian historical materialism, systems theory, and a mathematical language of analysis are required to analyze modern capitalist countries, either more or less developed. (KC)

To clarify "power" and "authority," the authors review the concepts' history, examine contemporary concepts of social control, identify four authority modes (based on social relations and controls), derive four power resources from these modes, discuss persuasion and exchange as social control mechanisms, and demarcate…

Explores the influence of politics on educational research in China since Mao Zedong's death and the reemergence of educational studies. Examines Chinese educators' attempts to reconcile political and economic demands of national policy with their educational beliefs. Concludes that the future international significance of Chinese educational…

Holds that most U.S. books about Central America neglect or misrepresent the role and presence of Black people in that area and presents information to fill this gap. (GC)

Argues that as part of the objective of bringing economic recovery and social order to Louisiana following the Civil War, Banks made the education system an extension of his labor program. Examines the Free Labor System, the attitudes of Louisiana educational administrators, and the inhibiting nature of Black education. (Author/GC)

Reviews four contrasting theories bearing on the concept of the commons dilemma, which deals with conflicts of individual v group interests over time. Focuses on the threats that commons problems pose to democratic principles in community structure. Discusses alternative directions for the resolution of resource crises. (Author/GC)

Describes research which shows how some instructional practices used to teach reading at the elementary level can have a potentially negative influence on the classroom social structure by affecting an individual's social status. Ways in which counterproductive instructional practices can be changed are suggested. (RM)

This essay focuses on an analysis of the relationships among the educational institution, the mode of economic production, and the labor force. Class is considered an important factor in the dominant mode of production. Social classes are produced in a capitalist society by their position in the division of labor. The educational system reproduces…

Urges community college leaders to adopt a dialectical approach to the analysis of the impact of community colleges on the lives of individuals and the structure of society. Suggests research into changes in political and social attitudes of faculty and reviews Gouldner's post-Marxist analysis of class structure and struggle. (DMM)

Britain and Japan are shown to be two pioneers of industrialism who took different roads to power and wealth. Each society imbues an institution with its own values and meaning--the Japanese with the spirit of participative self-fulfillment, the British with acquisitive individualism with concern for one's neighbor. (MLW)

The educational system in Jamaica is examined in terms of the comparative numbers of males and females enrolled. Sex-role stereotyping is presented as a reflection of Jamaican society, and suggestions for reform of curriculum based on social goals are offered. (JMF)

Data on couples show that rates of domestic violence are related to attitudes about violence and to social structural variables. With respect to physical punishment of one's children and to spousal violence, findings show a spouse's violence has greater impact on the respondent's violence than the respondent's own attitudes about violence.…

Describes Milgram's experiments in which individuals (assigned the role of "teacher") obeyed instructions to administer what they thought were severe electric shocks to "learners," and reports criticisms of the findings. Concludes that the experiments were sound and that they demonstrate that morality is situation-related…

Early treaties between the Federal Government and the Cheyenne did not deal with the economic factors which had brought about war and cultural conflict. (JC)

Argues that France, like the United States, has a dual system of higher education and that class dominance of this system has been assured by governmental policy using the ideology of equality of opportunity to legitimate that dominance. (Author/AM)