Provides a practical demonstration of the writing class as cultural critique. Attempts to lead students to discover the social constructedness of their experience. Demonstrates that the resourceful writing teacher can make powerful modes of demystifying analysis accessible to all students. (RS)

Suggests that scholars from eastern Europe and from the West have a lot to learn from each other. Explicates this generalization through three personal experiences with eastern scholars, scholarship, and students. Concludes that in eastern Europe, history has not ended: the past and the future are being struggled with still. (RS)

In 1996, Stuart Hall gave a famous lecture entitled "Race: The Floating Signifier." In that lecture, Hall argued against an ontology of race that linked racial identification to any other human characteristic. Undertaking a broad survey of the history of the concept of race, Hall highlighted how the meaning of the signifiers of racial identity…

While not attempting to unify the various theories in cultural studies, this paper proposes pointers or directions to further transformations of cultural studies. The paper identifies and analyzes the works of two theorists, who have largely been ignored in cultural studies, to suggest a resolution of the theoretical conflicts surrounding cultural…

The critical examination of society's circumstances, institutions, and cultural predispositions and values can help detect problems and injustices and can suggest opportunities for improvement. Neo-Marxist critical theorists of the Frankfurt school are committed to work of this kind, but their perspective is informed by Marxian precepts, and their…

The works of 20 futurists and their predictions for the year 2000 and beyond are examined according to four perspectives: Malthusianism, Utopianism (based on theories of William Godwin), Marxism, and social structuralism. Futurists may be grouped into one of the categories according to their theories about the interdependent problems of…

An attempt is made to analyze the ascendancy of formula feeding of infants in terms of the conflicting ideologies of Marxism and capitalism. The decline of breastfeeding is traced, and is linked with the interrelated phenomena of free market economics and the domination of women by men in Western society. The monograph has two sections:…

From a Marxist standpoint the author deals with the subject of economic and social domination in space. Topics discussed include agricultural spaces, spatial specialization and alienation, urban-rural relations in developing countries, and the disalienation of space and man. For address of journal see SO 504 028. (Author/RM)

The Marxist theory that education has wide social implications and that it is not a derivative and one-sided activity, but rather a relationship in which both teacher and students are learners, is examined. (JD)

Analyzes previous interpretations concerning the French Revolution. Discusses several weaknesses of the Marxist views in light of recent philosophical and sociological thinking about social change. (RKM)

Suggests that neomarxism, the dominant form of radical reconstructionism, provides a less internally coherent concept of educational progress than do other major educational philosophies. Outlines epistemological differences between traditional Marxism and neomarxism. Includes 37 references. (SV)

Argues that the development of a feminist-integrated college curriculum should be informed by a critical theory of society that analyzes how social forces create varieties of interconnectedness. Liberal feminists have generally overlooked the role of capitalism in sustaining the oppression of women. Marxist theory provides a viable, unified…

The Marxist sociology of education is explored in this article to observe how gender relations and female education have been marginalized. (DF)

Explains the theoretical positions of Russian Marxist psychologist and educator, L. S. Vygotsky, and their philosophical foundations. Discusses Vygotsky's major psychological theories regarding cognitive development, the development of scientific and spontaneous concepts, the zone of proximal development, and language's relationship to thought.…