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The author contends that Western curricular theory is based on specifically Judeo-Christian views of time, space, causation, number, ethics, and aesthetics. He contrasts these views with Third World values, to show that wholesale adoption of Western methods by the Third World may prove too disruptive of traditional mores. (SJL)

This article presents information on time-space relationship in socio cultural development. The meaning and value attaching to social space is once again intimately associated with the possibilities and probabilities of achieving a spectrum of purely social purposes which accrue to enhanced status positions in the group or society. For status has associated with it the right to command scarce resources whether material or wholly symbolic, or both. The achievement of many purposes is contingent upon the command of such scarce resources. It follows that the achievement of many of the purposes which enhanced status makes possible have essentially nothing to do with physical survival, they may have much to do, however, with the achievement of certain social rewards and privileges. Thus, if an individual desires, say, a professional status or a reputation as a celebrity of some kind, the achievement of such pure poses involves primarily an investment of time, energy, and willingness to engage in competition with other contenders. In such instances the probability of success or failure is not immediately determined by ownership and or control of physical space in the farm of real property.

This article explains that indigenous peoples and Indians in Canada emphasize the values of equity, security, identity, hierarchy, and authority in the midst of social change. These values imply abandonment of the traditional value theme of balance. Social problems will come to focus in the utilization of power and normative planning.

The Island of Sark is distinguished by the fact that it represents a unique survival of the late feudal era. This charming and tiny island fiefdom, with a total area of less than 1400 acres and a population of less than 500, has managed, thanks to tourism, to achieve a substantial measure of economic progress without compromising its traditional autonomy. This state of affairs, however, appears as a product of a unique concatenation of circumstances, both historical and contemporary, which are without immediate parallel in the modern world. Without its singularly opportune geographic, economic, and demographic relationships with its neighboring islands, its unique constitutional status within the United Kingdom, its highly personalized system of local legislative, judicial, and administrative machinery, an historical accumulation of numerous legal anomalies and ambiguities which operate in its favor, and above all, the shrewd, forceful and determined leadership of an aging female Seigneur who has held the Lordship of the Island and astutely guarded its rights and prerogatives for more than forty years, it seems extremely doubtful that the ≪ miracle ≫ of Sark's present-day prosperity and continuing autonomy could have been wrought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the logical and conceptual problems related to community, society and institutions in the U.S. Communal groups have their own group norms and other characteristics. It should be distinguished from all other types of groups in the community. Meanwhile, institutional subsystems of behavior are the functional product of various differing types of group structures. On the other hand, the problem of the relationship between the concept of community and the community institution is fully as old as the problem regarding the distinction between community and society.

The article discusses the study on the impact of sociology in the reconstruction of community theory. The author employed an operational model which involved a conception of community as an organizational manifestation of the basic culture of a society on an interconnected and hierarchically stratified series of levels. Through the aid of the specific model of communal organization, observations and measurements were carried out concerning the emersion and institutionalization of community organization. Finally, it was revealed that a body of sociological facts are necessary to permit the establishment of a systematic theory and a genuine comparative science of community.

This article focuses on the concept of mental health and religious socialization given by sociologist Emile Durkheim. It seeks an alternative explanation, one which is couched at the socio-psychological level. Its method of approach is an analysis of religious socialization. In the analysis which blows, stress is placed upon differences in the content and function of the mythological reference group structure, i.e., the inventory of both divine and demonic personalities, with whom the religious confessant develops relationships. Such mythological reference groups may be thought of as independent of, but supplemental to, the real worldly reference groups to which the individual relates. The analysis proceeds from a conception of the ideal-typical rather than the modal form of the conscience manifest in New World Catholics and Protestants, specifically those raised in the Calvinistic tradition prevalent throughout English-speaking North America. The focus of this article, moreover, is with the type of conscience produced in members of the two respective religious communities during the historical period beginning in the Renaissance-Reformation.

The article presents the author's views on Herbert Blumer's comments on his article on morale in the American Army in World War II. According to the author, he took Blumer's analytical framework of morale as a starting point in order to prove that the type of morale found in the American Army can be designated "practical morale." The author opines that there exists a state or condition of group morale in the Army that follows logically from Blumer's conceptual framework of morale.