Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse various aspects of education for sustainable development (ESD) drawing attention to the approaching end of the UN Decade on ESD (DESD) in 2014 and to the necessity of the continuation of ESD activities. Defining the internationalisation of education as an ever more significant part of globalisation,…

Author points out some of the economic, social, cultural and political problems that make the development of education in the developing countries difficult if not impossible. (RR)

Distinguishes between Black conservatism, which subscribes to capitalism and a specific social hierarchy, and accommodation, which was a definite political response to southern racist violence of the 1880s and which continues to function as a strategy to combat Black social and economic oppression. (GC)

The political machine, a network that connects the political "boss" to both the upper and lower urban classes, endures as a component of the metropolitan establishment. If people are to fight the establishment, they must understand the corporate and financial interests that influence urban policy. (Author/GC)

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…

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…

Defining the period of youth as the ages between 16 to 24 years, this article discusses the political economy of Afro-American youth oppression, the colonial educational system, crime and violence, death at an early age, and the future of black youth. (JM)

Public education must take the lead in establishing alternative paths to effective and successful participation in our society and its governance, tailored to the values and demands of the many specific cultures that exist in our nation. (Author)

Reviews the two most prominent methodological procedures used in the study of elites: social background investigations and decision making analyses. Neither of these methodologies when used alone can resolve the power structure debate and two research strategies are offered in an attempt to cast new light on the controversy. (Author/AM)

Community electoral structures and segregation levels affect minority representation. Single-member district electorate systems provide significantly more favorable minority representation levels in segregated communities. In nonsegregated cities type of election system makes little difference in the equality of minority representation. (Author/AM)

The concepts of adding" and linkage" are used suggesting a series of factors, which, when taken into account, explain the eruption of aggressive racial conflict in the 1950's and 1960's. (Author/JM)

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

Two crucial processes are discussed: (1) that through which social problems become public issues; and (2) that through which conflicts between competing diagnoses of, and responses to, publicly recognized social problems are resolved. Regularities in these transformations are conceptualized as follows: groups differ in their definitions of social…