Education in conservation, agriculture, science, medicine is supported in various spheres of the Young Pioneers Organization, as well as social awareness, international citizenship, and party loyalty. This article is included in a theme issue saluting the 50th anniversary of the youth organization. (JB)

In this speech commemorating the organization of the Young Pioneers, the Party member recalls events and programs during his youth, emphasizing the fellowship and self development derived from membership. (JB)

Considers how lawyers relate themselves to politics by investigating whether the variations in the work situation of lawyers and their position in the hierarchy of the profession affect their political activity and some aspects of their perceptions. (Author)

Even if the Vietnam War ends, the student revolt will go on as "the dominant instrument of social change rooted in history, a power base on campus, and recruiting ground among students and ghetto youth. (Author)

Analysis determined which individual variable employed contributed maximally to the differences between two polar groups of undergraduates and faculty within Duke University--those with sympathetic or those with unsympathetic attitudes toward a protest incident and its handling. (DM)

A summary of the adolescents' perspective of government, individual rights, crime, and power through his middle years" of development. Concepts range from a utopian ideology to complete naivity and vague misconceptions. Characteristic attitudes reflecting nationalism are found among young citizens of Britain, Germany, U.S. (JB)

Notes that previous research has shown that ordinary citizens are generally incapable of acting on the basis of beliefs about policy. It is suggested that the linkage between beliefs and attitudes can only be understood by looking at the purposes pursued by political activity. If political activity is viewed as serving symbolic ends, it is argued…

An analysis of the association of six independent family variables with parent child attitude congruence indicated significant association of measures of family political climate with attitude congruence for all dyads except "mother/son" with "father/son" dyads showing the greatest association. Reasons for the apparent discrepancies were…

A description of proceedings at an all-union conference dovated to preparing the schools for the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lenin, which was held in Moscow June 19-20, 1970. (JB)

Freire reflects on his role as consultant to the Adult Literacy Program in Sao Tome and Principe. Emphasizing the political aspects of pedagogy, he describes how adults learn to read and write, as well as to think critically and participate in national development. (SK)

Reexamines "An American Dilemma," by Gunnar Myrdal, et al., with the object of clarifying the background which shaped the polemical portion of the book examining the pathological and derivative aspects of the Black community. Indicates that ways of conceptualizing culture have greatly changed since 1944, the year the book was published.…

Argues that if one follows through the principles of a rational procedural morality one is necessarily committed to a democratic form of society. This in turn means that political education is an essential part of moral education and supplies a necessary content and context to moral education. (Author)