Discusses whether or not the state should determine school curricula. The author believes that curriculum policy decisions are closely connected with political and social views about the nature of the ideal society. (AM)

Examines the symbolic oppositions that structure the "Appeal," together with its strategy of crisis taken from Puritan jeremiads. Accounts for Chase's success in pulling together disparate forces of the free North. Explores events which laid the ground for the Republican party and civil war. (RAE)

Examined parent-child resemblance and mutual transmission of two kinds of attitudes (cultural and economic conservatism), categorizing adolescents into four levels of youth centrism. Data from Dutch adolescents, young adults, and their parents indicated that youth centrism moderated political orientation, with the four groups reacting differently…

During the mid-nineteenth century, Americans created the functional equivalent of earlier state religious establishments. Supported by mandatory taxation, purportedly inclusive, and vested with messianic promise, public schooling, like the earlier established churches, was touted as a bulwark of the Republic and as an essential agent of moral and…

Examines the different societal meanings attached to youth unemployment in various European countries. Sheds light on how youth of different social classes and educational backgrounds cope with unemployment. (JDH)

Contends that the work ethic in Bulgaria is rooted in the labor concept of value, and that it constitutes the general theoretical basis for the positive attitude of youth toward work. (JDH)

Examines the novels of Chinua Achebe in the light of Jean Jacques Rousseau's definition of political alienation as the political process of representation whereby a community allows its interests to be represented by a smaller group. (Author/JM)

Examines human services in China and reports that they demonstrably are based on the philosophy that the highest end of the individual is selfless service to the people. (DM)

Argues that general world problems, specifically Australian problems, and especially educational problems, do and should affect teachers and students. (Author)

An address delivered at the 51st annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies in Denver, in November, 1971. (JB)

To illustrate the set of theoretical propositions advanced by the author, is a discussion of the creation and impact of CORFO, the Chilean National Development Corporation. (RY)

Describes a study on the value patterns of a midwestern municipal police force, and compares police values with those of representative samples of black and white Americans. (JM)

This study is an attempt to develop a picture of student activists who can be considered prerevolutionaries and whose attitudes revolve to a great extent around their idealism. Speculations about the radicalization process are also discussed. (Author/MB)