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In the USSR today all five million students in institutions of higher education study social sciences. Social sciences are included throughout the higher education process & include: the political history of the USSR, philosophy, political economy, & scientific communism. Social sciences are taught more intensively in humanities institutions than in ordinary colleges. Social science curricula typically are based upon equal combination of lectures & seminars followed ultimately by state examinations in scientific communism. Soviet universities & institutes usually have four special social science chairs-these entail more than 32,000 teachers. All teachers of social sciences improve their qualifications once every five years. Modified AA.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- About This Series -- Introduction -- Part 1: Theory and History -- On Critical Thinking and Connected Knowing -- Educating the Artist: A Political Statement -- A Feminist Challenge to Community Service: A Call to Politicize Service-Learning -- The History of Women and Service in the United States: A Rich and Complex Heritage -- Service-Learning and Women's Studies: A Community College Perspective -- Part 2: Educating for Action -- The "Different Voice" of Service -- Learning Across Boundaries: Women's Studies, Praxis, and Community Service -- Women's Studies and Community-Based Service-Learning: A Natural Affinity -- Educated in Agency: Student Reflections on the Feminist Service-Learning Classroom -- The Urban Educational Initiative: Supporting Educational Partnerships With Young, Urban Girls -- Part 3: Narrating the Journey -- Women, AIDS, and Social Justice: An Autobiography of Activism and Academia -- TCBV in Limon, Costa Rica: Women's Studies and the (Re)construction of Identity in International Service-learning -- Civic Character" Engaged: Adult learners and Service-learning -- Resolving a Conundrum: Incorporating Service-learning Into a Women and the Law Course -- Appendix -- Bibliography: Service-learning and Women's Studies -- Contributors to This Volume.

Women's Agency and Social Change: Assam and Beyond focuses on varied oppression, power relations and ideologies embedded in the complex yet interdependent social, political, economic and legal structures, and women's subordination therein. British intervention, 1826–1947, by itself did not impact the agency aspect on women directly, but the emergence of new forces and factors sowed the seeds of women's agency to impact social change, even if minimal. In the post-Independence period, British colonial legacy perpetuated the s

This book proposes a revolutionary new theory of construct measurement - called C-OAR-SE - for the social sciences. The acronym is derived from the following key elements: construct definition; object representation; attribute classification; rater entity identification; selection of item type; enumeration and scoring. The new theory is applicable to the design of measures of constructs in: Management; Marketing; Information Systems; Organizational Behavior; Psychology; and, Sociology. C-OAR-SE is a rationally rather than empirically-based theory and procedure. It can be used for designing mea