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Paying the Piper

Nicholas BurbulesDepartment of Educational Policy Studies Whitman College [email protected] T CallisterDepartment of Educational Policy Studies Whitman College [email protected] ABSTRACT The enormous educational potential of the Internet is threatened by the increasing commercialization of cyberspace. Beyond the obvious and often prohibitive…

Electronic Journals

Mike SostericDepartment of Global and Social Analysis Athabasca University [email protected] ABSTRACT This article examines the political economy of scholarly publication. After briefly outlining the contours of the current crises in the scholarly communication system, the article goes on to discuss…

Redefining Reality

Timothy McGettiganDepartment of Sociology Wake Forest University [email protected] ABSTRACT In this article, I propose a solution to the paradox of emancipation (i.e., a theoretical impasse that results from the twin problems of relativity and coercion that one must confront when…

The Problem of Social Type

Oz AlmogDepartment of Sociology Emek Jeezrael College [email protected] ABSTRACT This paper elaborates the various scientific problems and difficulties regarding the notion of social type in the social sciences, particularly in sociology. An extensive body of literature on this topic is…

Footnote 91

RWDSU Record, 19 (8), August, 1972, p. 11; 20 (9), September, 1973, p. 9; 24 (12), December, 1977, pp. 1, 4; 25 (5), May-June, 1978, p. 12; 26 (1), January, 1979, pp. 8-9; 33 (4), October/November, 1986, p. 11; 34…