The movement to decriminalize homosexuality is well launched and will no doubt continue. However, legal reform cannot itself bring about a complete redefinition of homosexuality. Gay activist groups are searching for other institutions that repress or inhibit homosexuals' liberation. (Author)

Discusses trends and other factors that have affected the American family, particularly the nuclear family as if existed in the 1950's and 1960's. Five general areas of stress are predicted that will be common to American families, along with suggestions for their solution. (SH)

Examines Monsignor John A. Ryan's advocacy on behalf of social reform between 1892 and 1945. Argues that Ryan took the roles of priest, prophet, and politician, and that each of these roles called forth its own distinctive form of argumentation on behalf of social change. (JK)

The Christian college has been through two stages in its history and is entering a third. This stage is characterized by more international concerns and consciousness, new packaging and delivery systems for learning, and greater concern for building bridges from theory to practice for social change. (Author/MSE)

Notes that both books reviewed seek to understand the forces that have shaped the Jews' social and psychological marginality in American society. (Author/AM)

A portrait of a new urban black emerges in the context of a non-violent protestor instead of a violence oriented rioter. (Author/AM)

Suggests a taxonomy of the grass roots movement and gives a general descriptive over view of the 60 groups studied with respect to origin, constituency, size, funding, issues, and ideology. (Author/AM)

This report focuses on teachers' individual curricula. An individual curriculum includes contents and reasoning and can be structured in a quasi-logical system of goals and methods, which is the result of teachers' planning of mathematics instruction. There is consent that the planning of individual curricula or the instructional practice is a…

A recent telephone survey of 1,425 adults and 614 youth aged 12 to 17 is part of an ongoing effort to better understand adult engagement with young people and the impact of these relationships on the development of children and youth. The survey reveals agreement about some fundamental principles for relationships between unrelated youth and…

Teachers of first-year college composition, particularly instructors and graduate teaching assistants with little or no teaching experience, are caught up in a debate concerning the appropriateness of social action as a facet of their personal pedagogical strategies. On the one hand, they are encouraged to promote social activism by individuals…

This book serves as a call to action to anyone who works with young people. It discusses what it means to care for young people at all levels of social interaction: as individuals; in a professional capacity; within an organization; and as a society. It attempts to integrate theories and concepts of those who work with youth. It is intended to…

This study was undertaken to investigate the personal reading habits of scholars/activists in the field of Women's Studies (WS), determine the use pattern of documentary sources of information in WS, and identify various sources of information used by those engaged in research work, teaching or social action work in the field of WS in India. The…

Every community has areas--public parks, schoolyards, sidewalks--that are neglected, vandalized, or just plain run down. Young people can help clean up those places by getting involved in a community cleanup project. As explained in this bulletin, a community cleanup is a project in which volunteers of all ages work together to spruce up a chosen…

Argues that out of the struggle for human rights, for freedom, the Afro-American community has developed, over an historical period covering two centuries of this Republic, the fullest example of the struggle for consistent democracy; the most mature expression of the working-class democratic tradition to yet develop in the U.S. (Author/JM)

Explores some salient attributes of university students, as well as sociopolitical conditions conducive to their vigorous political activism and social movement, focusing on the particular characteristics of Korean student political activism, and probing the sources of frustrations of Korean student leaders of the April revolution. (Author/JM)