Explores similarities in the feminist visions of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Marge Piercy, and the differences in their works resulting from changes in women's real-world experiences and in the feminist movement itself between the 1880s and the 1980s. (AYC)

Provides perspectives on the process of perceiving another person while interacting with that person. Offers a social interaction approach in contrast to previous approaches that treat the perceiver as a passive information processor. Proposes that each person constructs a significant part of the social reality that one confronts. (ML)

Current trends in educational policy analysis are criticized for vagueness of conceptualization, inattention to values and ethical issues, the narrow role of the policy analyst, the dominance of functionalists, systems theory perspectives, absence of educational terms of reference, and the failure of policy analysis to ameliorate socio-educational…

Endeavors to broaden sociology instructors' knowledge of the labeling or societal reaction perspective. Outlines the general nature and scope of labeling, its development, and its relative contributions to explanations of deviant behavior. Records and refutes criticisms of labeling. Predicts significant future modifications resulting from a…

Better-integrated, more comprehensive models in the social sciences for practitioners involved in policy making and administration are needed. Marxian historical materialism, systems theory, and a mathematical language of analysis are required to analyze modern capitalist countries, either more or less developed. (KC)

In replies to two critiques of his 1980 article, appearing in the fall 1982 issue of "Educational Administration Quarterly," the author first questions the notion that all organizations must meet certain requirements to survive and, second, denies that structured observation research on school administrators is "neo-Taylorism."…

The culture of affluent societies in the late 20th century was characterized by French postmodern theorist, Jean Baudrillard, as consisting of "ambient consumerism" in which placement in the social hierarchy depends on acquiring products with a "sign" value conveying messages about status and purchasing power. Discusses…

Highlights the view that all the differing theories of racism and economic disparity seem valid. Argues that higher education reduces economic disparity, helps break down racial stereotypes, and increases opportunities for blacks. (GR)

Discussed is a study which triangulates the relationship between the patriarchal system, capitalism, and ecology using ethnomethodology. Relates a feminine idealogical set to general environmental sensibility. (CW)

Uses ethnomethodological perspectives to translate the language of Flower and Hayes's cognitive theory of writing into a more thoroughly social vocabulary as a way of articulating the role of social context and social structure in individual acts of writing. (SR)

Opines that there are three benefits to incorporating biology and other natural sciences into social studies programs: (1) students are exposed to interdisciplinary thinking; (2) social studies materials are placed on a more secure scientific basis; and (3) a biologized social studies program reveals human nature uncontaminated by recent culture.…

Discusses Foucault's notion of "heterotopia"--real places but which exist unto themselves, such as a floating ship. Considers data on children's use of computer and video games to apply "heterotopia" to children's everyday social lives. Argues that childhood is subject to increasing boundaries, and that children create…

Submits survey instruments on college student development used by Tinto, Astin, and Pace to five probes from recent social theory--voice, power, authenticity, self-reflexivity, and reconstitution--and proposes a shift in focus in student development research from essentialized categories like culture and race to relation and learning "between"…

As we enter our second century, it is an appropriate time for sociologists to take stock of where we have been and where we are going. Although most of this reflection appears to focus on substantive matters, Timothy Patrick Moran is right in arguing that their gaze ought to extend to how they teach graduate statistics. This article presents the…

Seeking renewed articulation of praxis in cross-linguistic on texts, I turn to postcolonality, social theory, and feminism to illuminate and critique common practices with language--learning, teaching, and writing. Additionally drawing on my experience teaching immigrant youth and adults in the US, I reiterate and attempt to answer Gayatri…