Contends that organized labor in the United States strongly supported pre-New Deal proposals for state pensions for the elderly. Reviews activities of the highly political state federations and of the campaign for old age pensions in Massachusetts to show that labor, rather than middle class reformers, was responsible for promotion of new public…

Questionnaire responses of 21 Black clergy from southern Appalachia indicate that social charity activities continue to be carried out by the church, with little movement toward social justice as demonstrated by the Black church in earlier years and in other areas of the United States. (NEC)

Argues that rhetorical genre must be defined in terms of rhetorical action rather than form or substance. Proposes a conception of rhetorical genre based on conventionalized social motives found in recurrent situations. Points out the implications for rhetorical education: genres help students understand how to participate in community action. (PD)

Gives a profile of Anna Mae Picton Squash, an Indian woman devoted to the service of the Indian people and Reports on her tragic death. (AM)

This study investigated the moderating effects of perceived outcome on the relationship between activism (social action) in the form of anti-pollution behavior and locus of control (I-E). Among subjects optimistic about future levels of pollution, internally-oriented individuals engaged in more anti-pollution activities and had more accurate…

By offering educational programs to large numbers of citizens, public higher education creates multiple social and economic benefits for a state and its people. Beyond overseeing these programs, however, boards have an obligation to ensure that state institutions address their state's economic development needs. The question is whether…

Argumentation skills are frequently touted as archetypal tools of democratic empowerment, yet theorization of ways to use such tools to achieve concrete social change is rare. As a result, the emancipatory "telos" anchoring American academic policy debate tends to gallop ahead of practical efforts to build empowerment through the debate…

In little more than 2 decades following the death of General Francisco Franco, Spain celebrated its transition from the most centralized to one of the most decentralized nations in Europe--in government and education. The objective of the study described in this report was to describe and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of a complex and…

The article details recent political development in Florida, focusing on such notable figures as former governor Claude Kirk. (KM)

Students use New Jersey as a real and practical place to explore consistency and change in social-political trends in this program. (Editor)

Author is concerned with the transference of power via community control of schools. (CB)

In 1969-70 the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene received $400,000 in state funds to conduct a drug education pilot program in Metropolitan New York. While drug information activities were not evaded, primary emphasis in each project was placed on dealing with drug-related social and economic problems and finding alternatives to drug…

The present study was designed to assess some of the attitudinal and ideological factors associated with varying degrees of activism, or participation in political and social protest activities. (Author/JB)

To begin meeting the challenges of change and dissent, the counseling profession will have to develop theories and practices that get to the roots of the social situations that create difficulties for individuals rather than treating individuals who are defined as social troublemakers. (Author)

Reexamines the issue of the usefulness of the internal-external concept in understanding commitment to social-political action and evaluates the empirical intactness of Rotter's Internal-External (I-E) scale. The main findigns were that: (a) the two item clusters from the I-E scale were uncorrelated; and (b) political commitment was predicted by…