Focuses on the implications of the imperative to organize school programs which purport to promote culturally pluralistic ideals. Discusses the principal reform issues and the interacting factors which are key in the development of teacher education programs with a multicultural focus. (Editor)

Establishes the need for multicultural education in curriculum development and makes clear the responsibility that the teacher preparation institutions have for providing effective and relevant training in this most important area. (Editor)

Reports on the movement from compensatory education to multicultural education and warns that this transition must take place with caution. (Editor)

Argues that the teacher in his role as mediator of culture can do the most good (or harm) in creating acceptance for and affirmation of racial and cultural differences. Emphasizes the need to clarify the conceptual meaning of the role of the mediator of culture and to advocate education that is multicultural. (Editor/RK)

Examines the way in which schools contribute to sex role stereotyping, reviews selected research and hypothesizes that the way in which American females are socialized disadvantages them in the labor force. (Editor)

Describes newly developed and tested materials which provide models of women who work in significant roles in society. (Editor)

Examines the hypothesis that maternal employment relates to the development of children according to sex of the child and the social class of the family. More specific hypotheses are derived from D. B. Lynn's theory of sex-role identification (1969). (Author/RK)

Describes the job seeking experiences of dual career couples where both are professionals. Suggests ways of dealing with the pressures of joint job seeking. (Editor/RK)

Examines the socialization process and human development of women in the context of Chinese society before and after 1949. (Author)

Sweden is in the forefront of current efforts to restructure sex roles in order to free its citizens of the social constraints that limit both sexes. Author describes a new sex role project developed by the Swedish Board of Education and based on the principle that preparation for the parental role is equally important for both boys and girls.…

Examines the special barriers that confront working women when they decide to return to school. Describes an innovative program at Cornell's School of Industrial Relations focusing on supports for leadership training that can be provided in order to increase the participation of women in union, community and political life. (Editor/RK)

Bearing in mind that the regular readers of this journal are for the most part non-sociologists, this article provided an explanation of the nature of sociology. (Editor/RK)

Author discussed the relationship of sociology to education and some of the cautions to be observed in the use of the former by the latter. (Editor/RK)

Article delineated some of the ways in which "school" has been defined. That discussion was used as a background for offering a more detailed discussion of what the concept school means in sociological terms. (Author/RK)

This essay explored the authority relation between parents and teachers, their respective spheres of influence, the quality of their relationships, and the potential for building constructive alliances between them. (Author/RK)