This research paper aims to analyze the perspectives of a selection of Jordanian women between the ages of 20 and 50 on social justice and explore if ingrained gender discrimination prevents women from attaining equality in Jordan. It tries to pinpoint the factors that hinder or motivate women to pursue social justice in Jordan while identifying…

This study aims at investigating social studies student teachers' levels of understanding sociology concepts within social studies curriculum. Study group of the research consists of 266 teacher candidates attending the Department of Social Studies, Faculty of Education, Kastamonu University during 2012 to 2013 education year. A semi-structured…

Explores the Leninist conception of ways in which individual characteristics can be viewed in terms of general laws of social development; how scientific typologies of the individual offer means for discovering the essence of social phenomena; and how a change in human nature involves a modification of social relationships. (JB)

Results of this study of Wisconsin high school seniors were consistent with explanations involving role processes and structural effects. Same-sex influence appeared. Father's influence was related to instrumental orientations in boys. Contrary to expectations, there was no evidence of changing sex roles in the patterns of influence between 1964…

Summarizes and assesses some recent observations on youth culture as a factor in social change and points to the need for a systematic analysis of the inter-relations of social change and new generations. (Author/SF)

Argues that broad themes of social studies knowledge represent primarily the ideological representations of socio-structural forces and configurations, than the choices of educators. Recommends several activities for educators who would increase the power of individuals and groups to make changes in social, cultural, and educational techniques,…

Discusses the mass media and education, arguing that the crucial phenomenon is the industrialization of the mind: the mind-making industry is viewed as a product of the last hundred years which has developed at such a pace and assumed such varied forms that it has outgrown understanding and control. (Author/JM)

Paper presented at the Tenth International Seminar on Family Research of the International Committee on Family Research, Tehran, Iran, March 5-13, 1968.

Proposes an integration of critical theory and humanistic education. Strengths and limitations of each are discussed, and a model for liberatory education is proposed. The model is illustrated with an example from a fifth grade classroom. Further dialogue among humanistic educators and critical theorists is recommended. (Author/VM)

Considers the nature of the larger corporate society and the school's subordination to it, that before there is educational change, there must be social change, and that schools, by design, will continue to encourage alienation in the larger societal structure while perpetuating the status quo. (Author/RK)

Presents a prescription for a restructured postindustrial society without gender as an organizing principle. The potential nongendered social order is described in terms of nongendered reproduction, equally valued wage work and a gender-neutral wage structure, and gender-neutral access to authority and power. (SA)

The contents of the Child Study Association's report of their Eightieth Anniversary Forum, on the topic of "Social Upheaval: Changing Institutions and the Impace on Families," include papers on "The Para-Institutional Society Technarchy of Life," and on "What Generation Gap?". Also discussed are "Sources of the…

This document comprises two papers. The first, by Professor Martin Carnoy of Stanford University, provides a dialectical view of the socialization functions of schooling. In the first part of his paper, Carnoy relates how the dialectical model best explains the historical mechanisms by which the socialization functions of schooling developed, and…

This paper explores the relationship between schools as a force which perpetuates the social order and the aesthetic curriculum which is being introduced within schools. In the first part of the paper, the author explains how aesthetic experiences are unique and different from the day-to-day experiences of our lives. Aesthetic experiences, such as…

Sport is examined in relation to a number of basic aspects of social organization. Each of the seven sections includes a brief clarification of the key sociological concepts used for analysis, a consideration of various applications of those concepts to sport, and a review and discussion of what is known about specific aspects of sport in relation…