An activity is suggested as one method of examining lifestyle implications of diverse commitments and values to help students deal with both social and personal concerns. (Author/KM)

Argues that virtually all welfare-policy change since 1961 has served not to perfect a mechanism that would simplify the system and minimize the costs of public charity but to recognize and relieve dependency; the lesson is that reform follows reality. (Author/JM)

Organized labor and the workers it represents are easily confused, lampooned, and excoriated by liberal social activists and big businessmen alike. (Authors)

Seeks to explain the use of ideologies concerning the failure or non-failure in American education in terms of the struggle of sponsoring and professional groups to establish or maintain position on the social scene and, correspondingly, to gain control over those clienteles which are relevant to drives for social or professional mobility. (RJ)

Social participation, one of the four components of social studies education, means social studies teachers must teach how our social system works, and how to become thoughtful, informed social critics, participate in democratic processes, become involved, be activists and demonstrate responsible concern for improving the system. (Author/VW)

To explain social change, one must know not only about the aspiration level of individuals or about the resources available in the environment, but the coordination over time, of these two elements in relation to each other. (Author)

Children's rights workers may seek to maintain the status quo, lacking the power to change the social structure in order to effectively achieve children's rights. (DM)

Legal reforms used as experimental approaches of social reform. (IR)

McGuire, president of the National Education Association (NEA) since 1979, discusses NEA's involvement in political and social issues; the benefits of the organization's advocacy activities; union and collective bargaining issues; NEA's involvement in higher education; education for the handicapped; teacher education; and the role of psychology in…

Suggests that counselors must fight politically and professionally for their continued existence. In view of major social changes they must risk entering new fields, including counseling older adults, families, cultural minorities and employees of businees and industry. Counselors must focus on improving the quality of human relationships. (JAC)

Examines the rhetoric of the Moral Majority. Argues that it expresses a romantic confrontation between agents of a liberal, secular, and humanistic world and those of an idyllic and moral America. (PD)

Discusses Gramsci's political education model, which explains the role of education in building an alternative, anti-capitalist cultural formation. Considers the definition of hegemony, the form of pedagogy best serving to develop critical consciousness, Gramsci's break with Marxist-Leninist traditions, and the revolutionary role of the common…

Argues that psychology training programs must stress decision-oriented research and provide students with the knowledge required to assume a posture of advocacy that promotes through action the healing and improvement of the entire human condition. States that psychology has traditionally ignored the conditions of poverty and oppression.…