Sociopolitical values are hypothesized to form during adolescence, but the developmental and contextual origins of these values have been largely unexplored. A sample of 846 adolescents (M[subscript age] = 15.96, SD = 1.22, range = 13-20 years) reported on their organized activity involvement (volunteering, sports, church, community clubs,…

The idea of using values as a means of guiding our research decisions and judging the validity of our claims of knowledge is well established in literature on the self-reflective genre of action research. Values in action research should always result in virtuous behaviour--to promote the general social good. However, ideas of what constitutes the…

The ability to be unique in decision- or judgment-making depends on both developmental factors and the social environment. Education of judgment for decision-making may involve clarification of individual values and facilitation of personal development, but it must also distinguish and utilize the positive basic social values that now exist.…

The author discusses the restraint of liberty. He notes that whereas the underlying importance given to liberty within a society's scheme of values does vary over time, it is pivotal reflection in moral, social, and political theory to ask whether this variation may be legitimated. (CT)

"In this paper we will discuss a number of selected theoretical models with reference to their basic philosophical tenets in the hope that teachers may acheive a better closeness of fit between their own concerns for teaching about values and the recommendations of the current literature on the subject." (Author)

This investigation is an empirical attempt to locate variables which best predict individual modernity and to explicate causal relationships. The dimensions chosen for analysis are defined by several relevant models in past research. The independent variables include two personal characteristics (age and sex); five structural variables (residence,…

Concludes that no evidence exists to support the claim that advertising has the power to change human values, although advertising can be said to inform some members of the culture about the predominant value system that is used in a culture at a particular time. (RL)

Comments on the sociological analysis of the scientific community, its social norms and values. Discusses the ethos of science and some aspects of development processes that scientists go through to enter their profession. (GA)

Contends that the management of institutional life is affected by wider developments in culture. Suggests that two of these developments are the growth and spread of the methods of systems theory and strategic planning and popular enthusiasm for collegiate or participatory government. Suggests that new educational programs for administrators are…

US higher education offers a diversity of programs, electives and courses but requires student conformity to prescribed values which relate only to societal structures within the academic community. Institutions of higher education emphasize achievement-oriented social styles evolving from an accepted philosophy that stresses energy, compromise…

Develops an analysis which speaks to the future, a stimulation toward our own self determination as a people who can first recognize the problem, move to identify and categorize the causative factors, move further to eliminate those causes, and then take the steps necessary to institute for ourselves a value system, a way of life, which is…

These National Humanities Faculty working papers are presentations from the Question of Authority Workshop. Frithjof Bergmann's "The Logic of Freedom" distinguishes two approaches to the concept of freedom--that freedom is the ultimate good and that freedom is a burden. A theory of freedom is constructed in the second part of Bergmann's…

The purpose of this publication is to present the thinking of graduate and undergraduate students on contemporary issues, particularly those related to modern rhetoric and communication. The first section of this issue consists of articles on such topics as the current status of the Weathermen movement; the sexual revolution in America; a…

The author briefly outlines a socially-based accounting system which evaluates not only economic but also social and aesthetic variables in arriving at a quantification of the benefits and costs of any action or failure to act. This system is designed to provide an additional tool in decision-making. (Author/MA)