When used in combination, the criteria of positive solidarity and anti-institutional orientation can help to refocus the study of social movements towards the analysis of large scale social change outside institutional channels and keep it distinct from the field of collective behavior. (WI)

This study of Asians found that: (1) there is a need for basic legal services as well as general counseling; (2) English classes at both basic and more advanced levels are wanted; and (3) the stereotype of Asians in America as uncomplaining and stoic minority groups is partially validated by the data. (Author/WI)

Follows the evolution of the docudrama as a blend of fact and fiction, dramatizing events and people in recent history. Examines and characterizes the antecedents of this form, and explores the docudrama's role as a catalyst for social awareness and its potential problems related to ethical and legal precedents. (JMF)

This paper summarizes the research which has been done on interracial marriages in areas such as incidence of interracial marriages, causal factors, sociopsychological characteristics, and the problems encountered by the marriage partners and their children. (Author/AM)

In recent years, child abuse has emerged as a social priority of national importance, largely through physicians' efforts to make it so. Grafting a medical approach onto what has been a social work concern has had serious, perhaps unfortunate, consequences for social work policy, practice, and education. (Author)

In 1953, William O. Stanley wrote the prominent social reconstructionist treatise, "Education and Social Integration." Fennell argues that Stanley was too optimistic, and states that democratic reconstruction will occur only if the very commitment that Stanley claims to exist is made a primary goal of political education. (Editor/RK)

Discusses findings of an analysis of newspaper reporting of riots in Detroit from July 1967 to August 1968. Points out the correlation between the demographic characteristics of a community, its geographic proximity to a large Black population, and the manner in which riot-related news was presented in suburban newspapers. (JMF)

The present bibliography contains selected professional, research, and scholarly references regarding the Spanish-speaking elderly from Latin America, Spain, and the United States for the years 1960 to 1977. (Author)

Educational problems are related to national and international issues; they can be solved if teachers see beyond the atomizing images projected by advertising and the news media. (DD)

Investigates political alienation among white and black adolescents, with particular regard to feelings of political inefficacy and political distrust. Recommends additional research on alienation and suggests that future alienation models be augmented with measures of psychological reactance as well as political reality perceptions. For journal…

How successful bilingual education proves in the United States will depend in part on how congruent its programs become with the aspiration of the ethnic communities to which the programs are addressed, on the awareness by American educators of the new American ethnicity, and on the participation of ethnic communities in program formulation and…

This article examines recent criticism of the current criminal justice system which characterizes it as a "nonsystem" because its three main components--law enforcement, courts, and correction--are often poorly managed and inefficient. (Author)

This article examines some persistent paradoxes in the definition of the male role, and proposes a distinction between traditional and modern male roles. Four current perspectives on the problem of the male role are distinguished. (Author/AM)

Many adults with the greatest need for continuing education are the least organized, least articulate, believe that they cannot succeed and believe that the educational system is not interested or able to serve their needs. (ABM)

Questionnaires from 225 homosexual and 233 heterosexual adult women revealed 115 cases of rape or attempted rape. Data from 78 follow-up questionnaires are summarized. About the same proportion of lesbians and heterosexuals, age 16 or over, were the object of rape. Inferences are drawn about the rapists' attitudes toward women. (Author)