Nine sources of possible student unrest now and in the future are identified and considered, including jobs and the economy, new students, grade inflation, race and ethnic relations, effects of the women's movement, intercollegiate athletics, commuting students, loss of alternative studies programs, and legal activity. (Author)

Takes issue with the notion that black political activity can be explained either by an isolation, an indirect effects, or an ethnic community argument. Suggests, rather, that a theory of political climate, incorporating arguments from all three theories, best accounts for the variability in black political participation levels from one time and…

Harvard University has not fully divested from South Africa. Alumni Against Apartheid (AAA) is increasing the pressure by gaining a seat on the board of overseers and rallying support of students and alumni. This issue may become the spearhead of a general change in the institution's social policies. (VM)

Organizational efforts of Black women from the post- revolutionary period to the depression are examined. Informal community organizations of slaves led to benevolent and self-improvement organizations among free women. Major concerns were the family and the uplifting of the race. (VM)

Conditions under which Black women have lived are examined. The Puritan ethic and economic conditions led to a view of Black women as immoral temptations. Later this was reenforced as Black women were given only menial jobs and excluded from participation in women's movements. Still, Black women have made significant contributions. (VM)

Gloria Richardson was one of the Black women activists whose work is largely unnoticed but who was an inspirational worker for civil rights. As the coordinator of the Cambridge branch of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, she challenged local racist laws and policies. (VM)

Explains the relationship between education and protest attitudes by specifying four processes and the conditions under which each operates. Education reduces support for violence by protesters and authorities, and for issues identified with blue-collar groups, but increases opposition to government repression and support for protest among persons…

Challenges revisionist studies of the Civil Rights Movement by showing that the movement in Tallahassee does not fit their alternative model emphasizing deliberate planning. Concludes that while organization and planning are key variables, social movement theory must take into account spontaneity and emergence and the transformation of preexisting…

Socialization agencies which are less formal and more voluntaristic seem to facilitate the absorption of immigrant youths into Israeli society more effectively. Agency structural characteristics such as symmetry and voluntarism allow newcomers to maintain their sense of dignity and increase their capacity to integrate economically and politically…

The results of a 1982 survey of college students' political attitudes were compared with similar surveys conducted in 1950 and 1971. Contemporary student activists appear to be about as conservative as the nonactivists of 1972. They are not, however, inordinately cynical or pessimistic about the future. (KH)

Examines the White response to major Black protest campaigns in several Southern cities. Argues that local Southern leadership could have, by the choice of appropriate legal tactics, both effectively resisted Black demands and forestalled extensive White violence and Federal intervention. (Author/KH)

Survey data from recent (1980) samples of workers in Venezuela and from Mexico showed that the greater the array of viable choice available to the discontented potential voter, the more likely that the discontented individual will use the electoral arena to register his/her views and the less likely that nonvoting will be chosen as a vehicle for…

Introduces special issue (with same title) designed to demonstrate how Blacks and whites, as allies, used 'tongue, pen, and participation' (social, political, religious, economic, judicial) to protest conditions such as discrimination, inequality, and segregation. Also gives broad overview of Black involvement in the antislavery movement. (CMG)

Public perceptions of, and activism or other responses relative to, environmental and natural resource management concerns have been the subject of past research studies. Summaries of additional studies (all reported during 1983-84) that deal with interfaces between the public and such concerns are presented. (JN)