Discusses the implications of a society devised according to Skinner's Behavior Modification Theory. (SB)

Reports a study of the relationship between teacher-candidates' sociopolitical ideologies and their attitudes toward poverty and the disadvantaged among 591 undergraduate students of education at Indiana University and Southern Illinois University in the winter of 1971. (Author/JM)

Role-playing and creative dramatics provide children with practice in a great number of vital human concerns. A sample lesson for use in elementary grades is designed to help children understand systems thinking. A variety of global concepts are presented in the lessons. (SM)

In the study reported, the relative degree of diversity of techniques employed in sequencing classroom work flow was compared among 166 teachers from four public secondary schools. (Author)

Reviews a book by Christopher Jencks et al., examining a number of statistical correlations between income and schooling; and also books by Katz, Spring, and Greer respectively, examining the historical development of the American public school. (JM)

Appraises the assumptions underlying much of the work in urban education by reviewing the deficit system'' model, the cultural pluralism'' model and the radical vanguard'' model; and by proposing an alternate competencies'' model drawing on ethnomethodology for theoretical justification. (Author/JM)

Contends that the language of the suburbia--the language of the British middle class--is a dead language, because it has so few sources of contemporary enrichment and vitality, and because it is derivative and unoriginal and relies heavily on an imagery that stems from obsolete popular speech. (RJ)

Surveys the development of the concept of individual status inconsistency, criticizing its utility and suggesting that it be recast as a collective rather than individual phenomenon. (JM)

Examines the social, cultural, political, and economic circumstances in which the ethnic vote will be cast in the 1972 presidential election. (JM)

The author argues that disjunction of culture from social structure is not peculiar to affluent capitalism but inherent in the modernization cycle. He suggests a theory of psychocultural modernization. (JB)

In order to extend sociological thinking about socialization in secondary schools, I have tested the contention that the social status of a high school independently affects the college-going intentions of its students, using data from a 1955 sample of students in 518 American high schools." (Author)

The history of education is an area of study whose potentialities are only beginning to be exploited and which could have a profound influence in thinking about politics, economic development, and social change. Education should be studied as a process deeply entangled in the life of an entire society. (Author/MB)

Art teachers are not just artists, but a part of the social structure of the school. If they are to bring about change within the school, their preservice training must teach them to understand this structure. (CK)

Discusses the dangers of having education as the sole route to social mobility and advocates the development of alternate socioeconomic models to meritocracy" (where the power lies with those with merit), such as mixed job- education experiences. (JM)

Drawing on examples and evidence from social science research on the diffusion of ideas, social movements, and several other related fields, nine propositions dealing with the interrelationships between social structure and social change are explored. (Author/MB)