The challenge to Extension youth work today is programing to deal with political and value issues in a way appealing to the small group who want to make things happen" without losing the majority, who let things happen" or wonder what happened. (EB)

This is the first edition of a newly scheduled section which will appear in each future issue of the journal and which will deal with different aspects of legislation pertinent to child welfare. (CJ)

Discusses the benefits and dangers of technological developments. Emphasizes environmental problems, in particular pollution, pesticides and population problems. (EB)

Oral life histories of two drug addicts' prison experiences are used to illustrate the kinds of insights into social problems which can be obtained by this method. (AM)

Most sociological knowledge is inapplicable to the daily problems of individuals, groups, and organizations and will remain so for as long as sociologists who do become actively involved in social and political affairs are viewed as deviants, role violators, or enemies of the discipline. (Author/GC)

Defines "applied theater" as a theater work which aims to process important social issues and which takes place in non-theatrical surroundings. Follows the evolution of one particular applied theater project about Matthew Shepard and examines the issues raised for those interested in applied theater's possibilities and constraints. (PM)

Contends that alcohol educators and researchers focus on group influences and stress individual responsibility to curtail alcohol abuse, ignoring invisible economic, political, and social parameters that promote lucrative industry of alcohol production and consumption. Proposes that economic and political interventions take precedence over…

Describes the content and policies of "The Counseling Psychologist" (TCP) during the years of 1991 to 1996. Accompanying this description and relevant data is a story about the editing experience. Comments about the relationship of TCP and larger social issues are discussed. (Author/GCP)

In recent years university governance has come in from the cold, so to speak, and is now the subject of some debate in political and academic venues. The core issue for debate is the appropriateness and effectiveness of current university governance structures. This debate is particularly critical in light of the increased professionalisation of…

Critical approaches to HRD do not focus solely on improving organizational performance; instead, they address previously undiscussable issues such as power, politics, class, sexism, racism, and heterosexism. Since critical HRD often seeks to raise problems instead of solve them immediately, it is sometimes criticized for being elitist and detached…

With this year's Global Report on Child Labour, the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopts a stance of victory. With confidence and pride, it announces that "the worldwide movement against child labour" led by the ILO itself has brought "the end of child labour--within reach". However, no convincing proof is given for this surprising…

Families of squatters who had settled in a quiet neighborhood of Paris wished to send their children to the local school. Our ethnohistorical inquiry explores how the mobilization in favor of schooling the children was embedded in other controversies and mobilizations that arose from the squatters' presence in the occupied building. Many…

Through a critique of the rhetorical configurations of identity theft, this article contributes to the emerging body of theory contending with the social effects of digital information technologies (DIT). It demonstrates how the politics of fear manipulate technosocial matrices in order to derive consent for radical changes such as the…

Few studies on representations of social class in children's literature have been published in the United States. As a language arts teacher and media specialist in a high poverty school, the author describes children's novels that directly address social class and the subtopic of the labor movement and consider the continued relevance of social…