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MINAR, DAVID W.
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF A SAMPLE OF 48 SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SYSTEM INVESTIGATED THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THREE MAJOR VARIABLES--COMMUNITY STRUCTURE, COMMUNITY LEVEL OR POPULAR DECISION-MAKING AND INSTITUTIONAL DECISION-MAKING. DATA UTILIZED IN THE STUDY WERE VOTES CAST IN DISTRICT BOARD ELECTIONS AND REFERENDA,…
Descriptors: Administrators, American Culture, Boards of Education, Community Influence
Download full textSandler, Irwin N.; Barrera, Manuel, Jr. – 1980
People exposed to stressful experiences should be less negatively affected if they receive higher rather than lower levels of social support. This proposition was tested by investigating the "stress buffering" role of social support in a way that allowed comparison between conceptually different measures related to the construct of…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Conflict Resolution, Coping, Depression (Psychology)
Nelson, Harold A. – 1977
The author examines the process by which the formally-structured outgrowths of social movements become part of local power systems. Although social movements often start out in opposition to local power systems, they sometimes merge with those systems in order to operate effectively and to accomplish significant change in the distribution of…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Community Organizations, Local Issues
Miller, Ronald Dean; Miller, Peggy Jeanne – 1967
The only local tribe to migrate into California during recorded history, the Chemehuevi Indians had one of the largest tribal areas in California, though their population probably never exceeded 800. Today most live on the Colorado River Reservation, where they share membership with the Colorado River tribes. First mentioned in a priest's report…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Reservations, Architecture, Business
Stanford Research Inst., Menlo Park, CA. – 1969
This paper outlines an approach to devising master social indicators which reflect conditions in a major area of human concern. There are five principal sections: Section I is an introduction; Section II sketches a heuristic model for categorizing indicator concepts, and suggests how a hierarchically organized scheme of indicators can be…
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Data Collection, Educational Research, Objectives
Kampf, Louis – 1969
According to radical faculty members and students, universities have been contradicting their humanistic educational ideals by concentrating on competitive professionalism and non-academic research in a struggle for institutional power in a preponderantly capitalistic society. It is their belief that meaningful education provides intellectual…
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Educational Innovation, Educational Objectives, Faculty
Redd, George N. – 1968
About one-fourth of the undergraduate student body of 1,200 at Fisk University expect to teach; most of them will teach in inner city schools. Therefore, teacher education at Fisk University has been conditioned mainly by the trend of urbanization in American life. Every prospective teacher is required to gain a solid foundation in the liberal…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Teachers, Inner City, Program Descriptions
Brookover, Wilbur; And Others – 1977
This document presents the results of a major study of the relationship between elementary school social systems and educational outcomes. This research sought to identify factors associated with academic climate which could account for the variance in achievement levels in a random sample of Michigan elementary schools. The main hypothesis of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, Elementary Education, Elementary Schools
Chu, Godwin C. – 1974
Focusing on economic development in the People's Republic of China beginning at the eve of the communist takeover, this monograph analyzes the ways and patterns in which mass media and interpersonal communication were used to change economically relevant social structures in the interclass confrontation and the part these patterns played in the…
Descriptors: Capital, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communism
Banathy, Bela H. – 1977
A systemic, holistic perspective is used in examining three challenges to the educational community today and in positing the idea of a societal organization of education for meeting these challenges. The problems identified--(1) improvement in the quality of education, (2) provision of life-long learning experiences, and (3) improvement in the…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Educational Research, Lifelong Learning
Hakanson, John W.; And Others – 1975
This document compiles three Forum 40 addresses. Dr. Hakanson, a community college president, believes that unless we can successfully introduce the human dimension into our technologically based and production oriented culture, we will continue to see increasing disaffection among larger and larger segments of the population. He postulates a…
Descriptors: American Culture, College Role, Community Services, Futures (of Society)
Deloria, Vine, Jr., Ed. – 1974
Presenting three position papers, this publication is the first in a series of five volumes on American Indian education. Papers are titled and authored as follows: (1) "Reflections on Contemporary Indian Education" (an introduction to this series, calling for reform via "Indianization" of Indian education) by Vine Deloria,…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Classification, Cultural Background
Katan, Joseph – 1972
This study develops a conceptual framework to guide empirical research on the utilization of indigenous nonprofessionals in human service organizations. The study is divided into six parts: (1) Identifies the different roles of nonprofessionals in organizations and specified factors which help define these roles; (2) Analyzes four studies in light…
Descriptors: Human Services, Labor Utilization, Nonprofessional Personnel, Organization
Framingham Public Schools, MA. – 1968
GRADE OR AGES: Junior high school. SUBJECT MATTER: The black man in American society. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: There are four major parts each with an overview. The four parts concern a) the African heritage of the black man, b) the American exploitation of the black man, c) the black man's contribution to American society, d) the…
Descriptors: Black History, Black Influences, Black Leadership, Black Studies
Elkins, Charles – 1976
The major function of science fiction writers is to describe the nature of and to find resolutions for the role conflicts which confront their social group as it moves into the future. Most science fiction performs what is best described as a "magical" function. The conscious exploration of the meaning of various social roles is seldom attempted;…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Literary Criticism, Middle Class Standards, Political Attitudes
