Social relationships among professionals in Sierra Leone are marked by competition and tension. An examination of food symbolism, patterns of food sharing, and attitudes toward the safety of accepted proffered food and drink provides a means of looking at how the professionals structure and manage their social relations. (Author/EB)

The Intergroup Relations Specialist may be the focal point of change within the educational system as it attempts to relate to the needs of different ethnic groups, social classes, school desegregation, school community relations, and the elimination of cultural blindness. (JD)

Danish communes, while exhibiting substantial flexibility, ingenuity and viability, invariably fail for primarily personal reasons or motives. However, unlike their American counterparts, economic and practical considerations play a correspondingly minor role. Presented at the Southern Sociological Society, Miami, Florida, April 9, 1976. (Author)

This study tests a model which demonstrates how school management and organization influence student intergroup attitudes and behavior. Variables were delineated from relevant literature, and data were gathered from 192 schools. The results supported the reasoning of the model and indicated how school environments can induce desired social…

By challenging the traditional view of the teacher's authority, collaborative learning helps prepare students for effective interdependence in an increasingly collaborative world. Collaborative learning calls on levels of ingenuity and inventiveness that many students never knew they had. (MLW)

The "understanding others" component of the Pennsylvania Educational Quality Assessment Inventory was analyzed for the academic years 1978-84. White students reported themselves as having more tolerance than black students in hypothetical school situations with regard to "differing others." Explanations based on historic patterns of discrimination…

Using a communication rules perspective, the study first describes group cultures of two work groups within a large organization, then reports group members' evaluations of the descriptions based on their groups' operative communication rules. (JW)

An analysis of interethnic marriage in multi-ethnic Singapore shows that those who marry across ethnic boundaries are more likely to be those: (a) who have been previously married; (b) who marry across the religious lines; and (c) who come from the lower and upper occupational groups. (Author)

The game described in this booklet is designed to broaden the players' perspectives on human diversity and to help them appreciate and value people of different backgrounds. In the game, players are asked to select the best candidates for an interplanetary mission on the basis of certain characteristics. Making the selections reveals stereotypes…

The experience of Asians in America had as its reality exclusion, oppression, survival, and racism. (DM)

Chicanos intend to act now to see that they can continue to function in a land that has become sociologically diseased and technologically polluted. (DM)

Describes the characteristics and ideosyncracies, hopes, and struggle for survival of the Northeastern Spanish community. (DM)

Unlike the social insect, man is profoundly ambivalent in his social role: the behavioral dispositions which produce complex social interdependence and self-sacrificial altruism must be produced by culturally evolved indoctrination, which has had to counter self-serving genetic tendencies. (Author/JM)

Isolates and tries to explain a phenomenon called the altruistic paradox, which refers to the fact that mankind individually and collectively can be both cruel and kind at one and the same time. (Author/JM)

This paper describes costs and effects in the design and operation of linkage mechanisms in complex systems and changing environments. (LN)