Examines educational exchange between the University for Teacher Education in Iran and the University of California at Los Angeles during 1975 to 1979. Describes the substance and goals of the institutions' relationship, pointing to issues and problems encountered and raising questions about sociocultural issues in such relationships. (Author/CAM)

Analyzes the evolution of French culture during the last thirty years as a series of steps towards the acquisition of a second culture by the individual and by the whole civilization. Describes the dynamics of cultural change as a process of interaction and mutual enrichment involving the individual and the culture. (MES)

Discusses the limitations of linguistic translation doctrines and proposes an "interpretive" theory based on the characteristics that account for a successful product. Following this premise, stresses the concept of "cognitive complements" defined as those situational elements that are indispensable for a correct interpretation of the message.…

Expounds Firth's views on the problems of translation and surveys theories of translation by some Firthian linguists. Defines the concept of meaning and the concept of varieties within a language, discussing various dialect categories and other categories that relate to constant features of speakers' and writers' use. (MES)

The author examines within-nation and between-nation diversity in educational inputs, processes, and outputs, and the interdependence of input, output, and cultural context. Implications are drawn for planning equal educational opportunities in light of these complex regional variations. (SJL)

Presents a case study of anthropological field work in Jamaica to illustrate difficulties in carrying out this type of research. Argues that the anthropologist's failure to analyze and communicate field difficulties is a major barrier to establishing anthropology as an objective science. (MK)

Tests an initiation procedure. Counselors report the process helpful and have adapted it to a variety of populations. The procedure appears suitable for minority adolescents and for many other adolescent populations. It addresses the reservations adolescents have about group counseling in a way that is understandable to them. (Author/BEF)

Discusses the ways in which the lexical items, grammatical code, and the uses of the vernacular sign language, Providence Sign Language (PSL), are interdependent and based on content rather than on an arbitrary, internally defined system. (PMJ)

Examines the values of the concepts of symbol, language, ideology, belief, ritual, and myth in understanding the creation of new cultures and in unraveling the related processes by which entrepreneurs give energy, purpose, and commitment to the organizations they are bringing into being. (Author/IRT)

Examines the educational and cultural system that formed the environment out of which grew the fanaticism of the Weathermen, the militant student group of the 1960s. (GT)

Participation in the diverse institutional spheres of industrial society requires that individuals coordinate their competing obligations in varying ways at different stages of the life cycle. It was found that the principal correlates of happiness vary as one proceeds through the family life cycle. (Author)

Although the national rhetoric reveals vestiges of self-criticism, the author maintains that we are actually retreating from the responsibilities our dreams entail. Recoiling from the burden of insight, the nation wants to be a child again. (LBH)

An historical investigation into how and why a literate culture came into being in England during 1500-1850. Examined are industrialization, economic necessity, schooling, writing diaries and family histories, access to books, property inventories, political protest, ballads, communication network, universal language, and cultural hegemony. (ND)

Describes the family, the Greek community, and traces his life growing up Greek in America. (AM)

Surveys broadcast media in developing countries and emphasizes the need for these countries to link the media with other arts, fit the moods and styles of the national heritage to the medium, and create programs that express the authentic culture. (MH)