Describes a number of studies which treated recruitment as an emergent property of the sociopolitical system: the social and political processes that interactively narrow the population of a community to the very few citizens who are elected to the school board were traced. (Author/JM)

Briefly explores some of the ideas of Edward Sapir in relation to the problem of human rights in our society; Sapir was perhaps the greatest American anthropologist of the twentieth century and certainly one of the greatest social scientists of the last several decades. (Author/JM)

This is a self-study of an elementary teacher's emotions during the year he took a sabbatical from a position as an education professor. He worked as an elementary classroom teacher, and he kept a journal of his daily experience as a teacher of a nongraded primary class. With the journal as a data source, the study examined the feeling…

The level of human support services provided by large manufacturing companies is not related to employee characteristics but to certain system variables, suggesting that services occur in response to system characteristics rather than to worker needs. (Author)

Theories of rank concession syndrome and "ethnic boundaries" are applied to the study of an American Indian group in rural Wisconsin. (EA)

Little research attention has been paid to the systematic validation of mathematical indices of social structure. The validation strategies in use remain largely implicit and generally fail to appreciate the multi-dimensionality of structure. The current paper proposes a new method designed to avoid these shortcomings and reports the results of…

An examination of some of the historical forces and internal contradictions shaping the features of the present crisis of 20th century America, which points toward the necessity of resolving the central problems created by a capitalist, monopolist society and the need for genuine liberation of the poor and minority groups. (EH)

Discusses research on 16 black and 12 white neighborhoods, concluding that the role of local neighborhoods as a power base is a most specialized and complex one in the black community and that clearly defining the character of local neighborhood contexts permits the assessment of several alternatives in the design of social interventions.…

Theoretical formulation may be utilized as a technique of the inquiry process under the following conditions: (1) identification of appropriate uses such as in explaining existing generalizations as a basis for asking questions that might not otherwise have been raised; (2) provision of the current state of development of a particular line of…

This book discusses the relationship between gender and language use in a framework of social interaction. In so doing, it reports on research concerned with sexism in language, the use of language by women and men, and the evaluations of language use by women and men. Language is considered within four theoretical frameworks in which assumptions…

In this report, an ethnographic study of the aged population of 12 hotels in downtown San Diego is described. The life styles and support groups of residents of "single room occupancy" (SRO) hotels are compared to skid-row hotels and middle class retirement hotels in the immediate neighborhood. Methodology in the study consisted of…

THIS PAPER DISCUSSES THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIETY IN TERMS OF SIX ELEMENTS OR LEVELS--(1) VALUES, NORMS, AND BELIEFS, (2) SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS, (3) ORGANIZATIONS, (4) GROUPS, (5) POSITIONS, AND (6) SOCIAL ROLES. THE AUTHOR STATES THAT TO SEE SOCIETY IN ITS TOTALITY IS TO SEE DOWN THESE LEVELS OF SOCIETY AND ACROSS EACH OF THE LEVELS, AND TO LOOK FOR…

The Chumash Indians were one of the most populous, rich peoples of aboriginal California. Though their origins are mysterious, they were reported to be a flourishing people by Spanish explorers in the sixteenth century. Missionization by Spaniards and secularization in 1833 spelled destruction, so that today only a few isolated and impoverished…

The educational and social heritage of India has limited the development of creative spontaneous minds needed to meet the changes of the 20th century. The formal, irrelevant education, confined to the earlier years of an individual's life may only prepare him for a minimum of seven to 15 years of work during his adult life. Because India presently…