This book contains speeches by Celeste Ulrich, the 1976-77 president of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. There are six speeches on the significance and meaning of physical education, six speeches on sociocultural implications of sport and physical education, and three speeches on the future of athletics and physical education. (RC)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Athletics, Futures (of Society), Physical Education, Sociocultural Patterns, Speeches
This article discusses the field of study of popular culture and traces its history from 1930 to the present. The study of popular culture consists of examining all elements of human activity and life style, including knowledge, belief, art, and customs that are common to a large group. These popular culture elements have been disseminated mainly, not necessarily, through the mass media. Popular cultural analysis has suffered greatly from the value orientation of its researchers. Negative views...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Culture, Popular Culture, Social History, Social Sciences, Sociocultural Patterns,...
This report seeks to assist employees of the military services to increase their awareness of and knowledge about Hispanics beyond what they see in popular culture. The report includes an overview and update about Hispanic demographics in the United States. It also discusses a few cultural issues and provides information intended to help organizations enlighten their members during their observance of Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15-October 15, 2000. Following an introduction, the report...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context, Demography, Heritage Education, Hispanic...
Noting that theatre for young people in Europe is much more aggressive in seeking to influence the attitudes and ideas of audiences than that of the United States, this paper examines the political and social trends occurring in children's theatre in four European countries. Following an introduction to this trend toward "educational theatre," the paper discusses the theatre companies, the range of plays performed, and the social issues portrayed in England, the Netherlands, Denmark,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Children, Childrens Literature, Educational Trends, Foreign Countries, Sociocultural...
The 14 lessons (311 pages) in this text are designed to teach the basic elements of the Tzeltal language of Mexico to speakers of Spanish. The format follows an audio-lingual approach, including basic sentences and dialogs (with Spanish equivalents), pattern drills and exercises, extensive grammatical notes and examples, and related vocabulary lists. A section on phonology constitutes the first lesson; and Tzeltal-Spanish, Spanish-Tzeltal Lexicons are appended. Cultural notes explain Tzeltal...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Audiolingual Skills, Language Instruction, Sociocultural Patterns, Spanish, Standard...
A social organizational theory is outlined, and how types of data drawn from it may be useful in an evaluation context is indicated. Anthropological ethnography is proposed as a more powerful tool in those evaluations undertaken from a phenomenological perspective. Naturalistic/qualitative evaluation lacks a theoretical perspective on how groups of persons order their social lives. The constitutive ethnographic theory of social organization is explained. This theory is presented to provide a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Anthropology, Ethnography, Evaluation Methods, Goodness of Fit, Observation,...
A new approach to rehabilitation of the disabled and disadvantaged is necessary, but the problem of how to involve consumers and how to organize groups for community action is a big one. Moreover, citizen participation cannot be a substitute for basic improvement in the quality of service. Service agencies need to be decentralized and staff members need sensitivity training to reduce the gap between staff and client. This paper provides insight into the organization, goals, legal status, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Responsibility, Disabilities, Poverty,...
GRADES OR AGES: Grades 10 and 11. SUBJECT MATTER: Social studies; United States civilization. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The major portion of the guide is divided into six subunits, each of which is laid out in three columns, one each for topics, activities, and materials. Other sections are in list form. The guide is mimeographed and staple-bound with a paper cover. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES: General objectives for the unit are listed on the first page. Each group of activities in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Guides, Grade 10, Grade 11, Social Studies, Sociocultural Patterns, Urban...
While most previous research has implied or assumed that the conversational structure giving each speaker a turn to speak is universally normative, findings of one study suggest that in interactions with at least four participants, alternatives to this rule are possible. A phenomenon called "conversational fission" occurs when a four- (or more) person conversation departs from the one-person-one-turn format and two or more subconversations occur, allocating multiple speaker and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis, Discussion, Group Dynamics, Interpersonal...
The complexity of the global society and economy, and the resulting fracturing of social classes across the Midwest, the nation, and the world demand a significant expansion of the importance of human relations training courses for counselor education and for general teacher education. At the University of South Dakota at Vermillion the School of Education has committed to developing new goals for using new technologies and systems leadership theory for linking regional communities with a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Counselor Training, Counselors, Higher Education, Human Relations, Sociocultural...
In mainstream U.S. culture, the idea of gender as a philosophical or spiritual value independent of sex is notably absent, and the presence of the masculine and the feminine in all of us is overlooked. In contrast, the concept of balance and compensation between the fundamental gender-defined energies of the universe is deeply rooted in American Indian philosophy and belief. The role of the feminine in American Indian culture provides insights into how American Indian people define themselves...
Topics: ERIC Archive, American Indian Culture, Child Rearing, Females, Feminism, Nonformal Education, Sex...
Examination of the relationship between Hispanic/Latino ethnicity, racial identification, acculturation, culture, language and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI/MMPI-2) has revealed controversial results. Because the MMPI/MMPI-2 is the most widely used personality assessment, it is important to understand how ethnic and socio-cultural variables factor into a psychological evaluation. This paper provides an overview of the literature on the appropriateness of using the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Ethnicity, Hispanic Americans, Measures (Individuals), Personality Assessment,...
A sociolinguistic study of Ocracoke, an island community in North Carolina's Outer Banks, investigated the social dynamics of language change and variation. Data were gathered in interviews with 43 island residents aged 12-82, most of whose families have been on the island for several generations. Several major sociolinguistic issues were examined: where the Ocracoke dialect fits in with surrounding dialects; the social interactional, demographic, and psychological factors correlating with...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dialects, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Variation, Regional...
This postdoctoral fellowship program involved the following three phases: 1) systematic instruction in the sociology of complex organizations with particular emphasis on the organizational analysis of schools and schooling; 2) systematic instruction in multivariate regression approaches to non-experimental research with particular emphasis on techniques designed to facilitate casual interences from non-experimental data; and 3) an extensive internship drawing upon the competencies of both...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Research, Fellowships, Postdoctoral Education, School Organization,...
An anonymous religious poll and the Situational Attitude Scale (SAS) were administered to 168 white University of Maryland entering freshmen. The anonymous poll consisted of 29 items pertaining to religious activities, beliefs, and issues. The SAS is an instrument designed to measure attitudes of whites toward blacks in 10 situations. The results of the study indicate that the relationship between religious and racial attitudes depends on the situation involved as well as the type of religious...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitudes, College Freshmen, Correlation, Racial Attitudes, Religious Factors,...
This bibliography lists major sociological and social-psychological works on social movements in general. Reports of specific movements or episodes have been excluded, except where they have broad sociological implications. The citations are listed alphabetically by author. (Author/JG)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Resources, Reference Materials, Social Change,...
The pragmatic use of nicknames as clarifiers separates the Maltese usage from those so common throughout the world where the nickname is used as a means of hiding identity. The familial character of most nicknames in Malta suggests they are the vestiges of a pre-Christian naming system. The major peculiarity in Malta is in the intermingling of seven naming devices in an evaluative system. The study of evaluative methods reveals a stable set of principles and fluid usage. People are mobile in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Competence, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication, Language Styles,...
The third volume of the working paper series produced in association with the Regional Colloquium for Technology Studies offers a range of insights into modern technology and some of the thinkers who have philosophized about its nature and societal impact. The essays are critical appraisals of the ideas of philosophers of twentieth-century technology and technology's relationship to society. They are: (1) "Lewis Mumford, Master of Many Arts: The Forming Years" by Donald Miller; (2)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cultural Influences, Higher Education, Modernization, Philosophy, Political...
This report notes that eating disorders are frequently described as a diet and fitness program gone wild. It outlines and describes five sociocultural influences which have been identified for eating disorders: (1) emphasis on thinness; (2) glorification of youth; (3) changing roles of women; (4) emphasis on fitness and sport programs; and (5) the media. Major studies conducted in the United States and Canada relating eating disorders and sports/fitness activity are thoroughly reviewed and an...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Anorexia Nervosa, Athletics, Bulimia, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries,...
The child care statistics in this report concern children under the age of 15 years whose parents or guardians were employed in the labor force or attending school from September to November, 1987. Topics addressed include the ways in which these children were cared for while their parent were at work or in school; the complexity of these arrangements and the accompanying disruptions in the daily work schedule; and the financial costs attributable to child care services. Data concern primary...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Costs, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Employed Parents, Married Students,...
This paper examines the origins of the two educational terms--class and curriculum. The authors believe that an understanding of the origins of key words in education may contribute not only to the history of education but also to the wider development of educational theory. The paper argues that the emergence of classes (in the modern sense) arose not so much from an increase in school size as from shifts in patterns of school attendance. Currently, the earliest known use of class occurs in a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum, Educational Anthropology, Educational History, Educational Practices,...
The incoherences and the ambiguities of Africa's educational system in which, especially at its higher level, a real African life does not exist result from institutions aimed more at transplanting a European pattern (or an American pattern) rather than implanting the university in the life of African countries and adjusting to African needs. The university should be a center where one would elaborate an expression specific to Africa, actualize the values of its traditions, and draw inspiration...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cultural Centers, Cultural Education, Cultural Interrelationships, Higher Education,...
This booklet on Pennsylvania covers the state's history through 1960. Chapter 1 provides background on the land, the Native Americans, and the first European explorations while Chapter 2 details the Quaker influence from 1681-1776, the political and economic developments, the settlers, the social and cultural process, and the colonial wars. In Chapter 3, "Birth-State of the Nation, 1776-1790" covers the Revolutionary War, the creation of the commonwealth as a state, and the creation...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Economic Development, Ethnic Groups, Governance, Social Development, Social History,...
The overall intent is to clarify relationships between psychological constructivist, sociocultural, and emergent perspectives by grounding them in attempts to understand what might be happening in a variety of teaching and learning situations. The first part of the paper outlines an interpretive framework developed in the course of a classroom-based research project. At the level of classroom processes, the framework involves an emergent approach in which psychological constructivist analyses...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Theories,...
This speech examines the culture of poverty and its effect on children. It describes the poor, the sub-culture within which they live, and the many disadvantages the environment holds for children of the poor. The point is made that it is important to look at the child and family in their uniqueness as well as in their commonality. It is further stated that the poor's style of seeking help is inimical to much of the culture and style of the social agencies. Most agencies were designed for other...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Agency Role, Child Advocacy, Disadvantaged Youth, Minority Groups, Policy Formation,...
Explores the sociocultural implications of the Internet: differences between analog and digital realities, knowledge versus facts, global connections versus individual isolation, ideal versus real self, equality versus privilege, and mall versus haven. (SK)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Information Management, Interaction, Internet, Interpersonal Relationship, Social...
This document is a compendium of reports from five countries on their "Sport for All" programs. The five countries are the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. It is stated that the basic idea of "Sport for All" is of a sociocultural nature: it regards sport and its functions as an integral part of permanent education. All of the reports place emphasis on medico-biological motives, sociological motives (the question of the use...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Athletics, Foreign Countries, National Programs, Physical Activities, Physiology,...
Intended as an introduction to those about to visit the United States for the first time, this booklet provides general information about the United States and its people. The title, derived from Mark Twain's observation that "the only distinguishing characteristic of the American character I've been able to discover is a fondness for ice water," reflects the variety and diversity of the American people. The booklet, however, while not losing sight of the differences, focuses...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Traits, Life Style, Orientation Materials, Regional...
Students' use of distributed Problem-Based Learning (dPBL) in university courses in social economy was studied. A sociocultural framework was used to analyze the actions of students focusing on their mastery of dPBL. The main data material consisted of messages written in an asynchronous conferencing system by 50 Swedish college students in 2 courses held in different years. Results suggest that when students engage in dPBL, they take responsibility for their learning by creating necessary...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Feedback, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Problem Based...
The purpose of this study was to examine and compare how Israeli-Arab and Eastern-Jewish adolescents view the role of the citizen. Both groups share a minority status within Israeli society, but have different socializing environments and different political and cultural status. The study population consisted of 118 Israeli-Arab and 279 Eastern-Jewish adolescents ages 16-18. They were asked to rate 36 questionnaire items according to their importance for good citizenship. The data indicate...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Acculturation, Arabs, Citizenship Responsibility, Cultural Pluralism, Jews, Minority...
These conference proceedings report the activities of one of a series of symposia dealing with the planning of sociocultural environment. This seminar was concerned specifically with sociocultural facilities and equipment serving the intellectual, artistic, and physical pursuits of individuals, families, and social groups. The main portion of the proceedings are the introductory remarks and discussion of the three main themes: leisure activities in the different European countries; government...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Needs, Nonformal Education, Pilot Projects, Recreational Activities, Social...
The "Research & Action Report," published twice a year, is a window on the activities and initiatives at the Wellesley Centers for Women. The report typically features news about the Centers, interviews with researchers, commentary on recent events or social trends affecting women and girls, announcements of new publications, and much more. Articles featured in this issue include: (1) Add Drama, Multiply Interest: A New Way to Teach Math; (2) Uncovering Links between Childhood...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Sociocultural Patterns, Females, Mathematics Instruction, Child Abuse, Delinquency,...
A corpus of Black English (BEV) data is re-examined with exclusive attention to the "is" form of the copula. This analysis differs from previous examinations in that more constraints have been introduced, and the Cedergren/Sankoff computer program for multivariant analysis has been employed. The analytic techniques that are used allow for a finer gradation of factors than is found in previous BEV copula research. This research has shown that NPs with determiners strongly favor both...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Language Usage, Language Variation, Sentence...
This paper is intended as an outline synthesis of what is presently known about the processes of pidginization and creolization. Section 1 deals with the linguistic processes of pidginization under the following headings: (1) the learned expectancies of how to behave in a contact situation, (2) necessity and heightened attention, (3) redundancy, (4) perception and re-interpretation, (5) chance and coincidence, (6) universals, and (7) supplementation from the native language. Section 2 deals...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Dialects, Creoles, Dialect Studies, Language Patterns, Literature Reviews,...
A basic introduction to the history and culture of Haiti is presented. It is designed primarily for American service providers and sponsors and so also discusses the legal problems faced by Haitian entrants in the United States. The information is organized according to the following topics: (1) geography and climate of Haiti, (2) history, (3) economy, (4) education, (5) social structure, (6) family life, (7) religious beliefs and funeral customs, (8) health services, (9) mental health, (10)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cultural Background, Economic Factors, Education, Family Structure, Haitians, Health...
A study was undertaken to gather attitudes of Spanish-speakers toward specific types of Chicano Spanish dialect lexical items. Reactions were randomly taken from 11 Latin American students who attended Southern Illinois University at Carbondale during the 1975 spring semester; 20 Mexican residents of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, who attended English as a second language classes at El Paso Community College during the 1977 spring semester; and 20 Chicanos of El Paso who attended El Paso Community...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dialect Studies, Language Attitudes, Language Variation, Regional Dialects,...
The purpose of this essay is to examine philosophy, history, sociology, and rhetoric with an eye toward demonstrating that the rhetorician is at least as well equipped to deal with the concept "movement" as other writers with different training. Rhetoricians have been preoccupied with moving men and not societies. A "macrorhetoric," in other words, seems possible by abstracting to a social or cultural level the traditional principles and operations of audience-oriented...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Analytical Criticism, Cultural Background, Higher Education, History, Persuasive...
This study a) determined college students' perceptions of selected women's roles and female sport involvement and b) ascertained the association of selected sociocultural characteristics with perceptions of women's roles and female sport involvement. Two hundred seventy-nine undergraduates at the University of Massachusetts completed a test inventory which included a questionnaire, a semantic differential, and a variation of the Lifestyle and Perspective Index. Analysis revealed that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Athletics, College Students, Females, Physical Education, Role Perception, Sex...
This issue of the "NCEDL Spotlights" describes the content of a new book, "The Transition to Kindergarten," based on a national transitions synthesis conference sponsored by the National Center for Early Development and Learning. The document delineates the chapter topics and describes four trends expected to have significant effect on the transition of children into American schools in the near future. Topics of the book include early schooling and social stratification,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Books, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children, Program...
Drawings on a set subject by Singaporean children were analyzed for correspondence with, or deviation from, the 14 categories used by Elliot Eisner in his 1967 study "A Comparison of the Developmental Drawing Characteristics of Culturally Advantaged and Culturally Disadvantaged Children." Masami Toku's 20 Categories of Spatial Treatment in Children's Drawings was also applied. The study sought to ascertain the incidence and type(s) of universal schema and the possible presence of any...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Childrens Art, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Freehand Drawing, Secondary...
The context for learning, education, and arts has altered dramatically, as has the cultural environment for educators and those involved in artistic and creative activities. Several crucial developments have transformed the terrain of technology, education, art, and culture, profoundly affecting not only the social and political structure of advanced industrial societies but also the ways we behave in community. (MSE)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Fine Arts, Higher Education, Politics, Social Change, Sociocultural Patterns,...
The battle between creationists and evolutionists has waxed and waned in American culture and education for decades. This conflict is evident in the contemporary debate between the proponents of intelligent design and its opponents. This article illuminates the intelligent design movement by describing major proponents' beliefs, goals, and tactics, and explores the controversy over a high school science textbook and the 2002 debate over Ohio's academic content standards in science.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Science Curriculum, Creationism, Evolution, Science Education, Sociocultural...
A CURRICULUM DESIGN WHICH APPEARS APPROPRIATE TO THE MIDDLE SCHOOL YEARS IS DESCRIBED. BECAUSE OF RAPID CHANGE AND HIGHLY VARIABLE INDIVIDUAL GROWTH PATTERNS, THE MIDDLE SCHOOL HAS THE MOST DIVERSE STUDENT BODY OF ANY SCHOOL UNIT. VARIED THOUGH THE STUDENTS MAY BE, DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS AT THIS AGE INCLUDE ACHIEVING SELF-UNDERSTANDING TO REACH A STABLE SELF-CONCEPT AND ACQUIRING THE KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ATTITUDES ESSENTIAL FOR GOOD HUMAN RELATIONS. A CURRICULUM DESIGN MUST TAKE PROPER ACCOUNT...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Core Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Experience, Middle Schools,...
This paper contains a reaction to another paper that discusses possibilities for reforming mathematics education and social justice. The author identifies the conceptualization that the pathways that students take through mathematics should be meaningful and lead to productive lives in the new labor market. The hegemony of mathematics education as a traditional pedagogy informed by transmission models of teaching, the current push in education based on economic rationalism where discourses are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Critical Theory, Educational Change, Mathematics Education, Social Values,...
An American family lived for 12 months in the Spanish province of Galicia as participant observers in the daily performance of the cultural roles and rituals of people living in the city of Santiago de Compostela. Since focus was on the performative dimensions of the culture, 38 people were formally interviewed, along with more than 100 on an informal basis, in an effort to discern the meaning that particular social actions have for the participants. The hypothesis was that by tracing the oral...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Research, Cultural Awareness, Culture, Intercultural Communication,...
This study concerns the problems posed by modes of interlinguistic communication, translation, and individual bilingualism, on which depend the quality of relationships between two ethnic communities belonging to a single political entity. It also addresses a frequent question about the need for translation in a bilingual country like Canada. The discussion involves the extent and quality of bilingualism in the Canadian population, bilingualism and biculturalism, the role and function of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Biculturalism, Bilingualism, English, Foreign Countries, French, Interpreters,...
A sociocultural framework for examining the use of English as a Second Language (ESL) in Hong Kong is outlined and discussed. It incorporates or draws on concepts of the socio-historical nature of language, critical analysis of communication, and systemic-functional analysis of language use. Using this framework to analyze the current situation of English use in Hong Kong, it is concluded that many students in working-class schools feel they are being forced to learn English that is not needed...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Needs, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes,...
This paper defines the "social turn" as a philosophy focused on interaction and social practice, and states that it was fostered in the New Literacy Studies movement as well as 13 other movements, which all argued the importance and definition of the social in their own ways. The paper then discusses the philosophical underpinnings of the social turn and argues against the new capitalism, asking the question, "Is the social turn politically progressive?" The paper proceeds...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Literacy, Social...
The complexities of digital age pose challenge to existing instruction technology theory as it applies to a distance learning environment. Through the lens of Activity Theory, this study takes a broad picture of an online course and examines the socio-cultural factors affecting the success of a distance course as well as their complex relationships. Interventions at the group and organizational levels will be explored to balancing local tensions emerged in the implementation of a distance...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Online Courses, Distance Education, Sociocultural Patterns, Social Environment, Case...
This is a study of beliefs, attitudes, and behavior with regard to a wide range of legal and illegal drugs. Included are data about coffee, tea, tobacco, and illicit drugs such as marihuana and heroin. The report covers the current situation and highlights trends from two prior studies on drug abuse conducted for the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse. The present survey adds considerable new information reflecting current interests and issues. The report includes summary...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attitudes, Behavior, Drug Abuse, Marihuana, Narcotics, National Surveys, Research...
