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This article continues "The Bibliography of the Theatrical Movement of Western Asia and North Africa,"Peter V. Chelkowski, editor, started in the MESA Bulletin XVI. 1 (July 1982), pp. 9–23.Today's Hebrew theater is almost as multifaceted and varied as the number of individuals and institutions which comprise it. It is quite a complicated matter to trace its origin, since the cultural roots of modern Israeli society are a multiplicity of ethnic cultures from all over the world. And it is only natural that this ethnic and cultural diversity should be expressed in the theater in general, and in all of its linguistic, pictorial, and gestural components in particular.

This paper examines Max Weber's `The Religion of India' and places it in the wider context of his work. It tries to show in detail how Weber's study of India formed part of the comparative analysis of world civilizations which was the natural result of his interest in the causal antecedents of the rise of industrial capitalism in the West. With this background correctly understood, it is possible to appreciate why Weber approached Indian religion in the way that he did, and to avoid some common mistakes. Weber is summarized on the most important aspects of Indian religion and a brief attempt is made to state how valid his remarks still are.

ABSTRACTThe allegation often made in regard to studies of white‐collar crime is that they tend to take the form of unrelated case materials devoid of hypotheses or theory. This article suggests that the radical criminologists fail to come to grips with this issue because of preconceived ideas about the relationship of economic structure and upper‐world criminal activity. The works of Adam Smith offer a number of interesting propositions that can form a framework for empirical investigation in the area of white‐collar crime. Smith's most fundamental hypothesis was that there would be an increase in violations by persons in power if there was interference with what he designated as pure capitalism.

A recent OECD report on labour disputes noted that there has been a considerable increase in strike activity in the public sector of a number of member countries in recent times. Moreover, it was noted that strikes have started to occur in the traditionally "quiet" parts of the public sector in various countries. There is little need to stress this point in the last few years as the strikes that are attracting attention throughout the world are virtually all in the public sector; witness, for example, the air traffic controllers' dispute in the United States, the campaign of selective industrial action by civil servants in Britain and the postal and telecommunications disputes in Australia in mid‐1981.

INDUSTRIALIZATION IN AFRICA HAS MORE OFTEN RESULTED IN EXPLOITATION THAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND HAS CREATED GROSS INEQUALITIES ALONG THE LINES OF RACE, CLASS AND GENDER. HISTORICALLY, AFRICAN WOMEN AND MEN WERE DIFFERENTIALLY INTEGRATED INTO THE WORLD ECONOMIC SYSTEM, WITH MALES BEING MORE DIRECTLY EXPLOITED BY INDUSTRY AS CHEAP SOURCES OF LABOUR. BY USING A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE IT BECOMES APPARENT THAT A TREND IS ALREADY BEING CREATED FOR DIRECT FEMALE EXPLOITATION AS AFRICAN WOMEN BECOME MORE FULLY INTEGRATED INTO THE INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOUR. AN ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOR WOMEN WILL BEGIN WITH DECOLONIZATION AND DISSOCIATION. IT WILL THEN DEVELOP INNOVATIVE WAYS TO ENSURE EQUITY AND 'ROTATION' IN ALL SPHERES OF ECONOMIC PRODUCTION AND SOCIAL LIFE.

The history of the growth of a new peasant intelligentsia in France in the 1950s and 1960s puis an interesting light on one aspect of the genesis of ideologies : how do they become political ? In this case, the process took place in three stages : the time of the missionaries, when the middle modernized peasantry acquired the first economie elements of ils view of the world; the time of the militants, when the action of the CNJA (National Center of Young Farmers) suceeded in getting the representation of the middle peasantry to be part of agriculture's general interest; and the time of the politicians, when the new ideology became agricultural policy.

The merger of computer and communications technologies in the past two decades has revolutionized information processing throughout the world. The most recent telecommunications advances possible direct international transfers of sensitive personal data via computer-satellite links. Computerized data bases containing commercial information identifying citizens of one country are now routinely transferred to and stored in another, often without the knowledge of the individuals identified in the data. Numerous European countries have enacted data protection legislation with the avowed intent to protect their citizens from the improper use of personal information that is transferred extranationally. These data protection laws prohibit the export of such information under certain specified conditions.

With the first direct election to the European Parliament in the fall of 1979, there has been a renewed interest in the study of the European Community. While very few American universities offer courses on the European Community, more college and universities are including some coverage of the Community through course offerings on European politics or the study of international organizations.There are several reasons why the European Community is today receiving more attention by scholars and researchers. With the addition of three states in 1973, the nine member organization has become a significant economic force in the world. And because of the Community's economic importance, its decisions also have social and political implications.

Majority-minority relations have historically taken the forms of elimination, segregation, fusion, assimilation, or pluralism. Cultural pluralism, which is the dominant ideology in the world today, is based upon the assumptions of tolerance on the part of the majority and a willingness to learn on the part of the minority. This process of learning is called acculturation. Modern theories of acculturation have tended to neglect the importance of individual differences in the process of adaptation. The socioanalytic model, based upon psychological role theory and studies of natural language, offers a model of acculturation which accounts for individual differences as well as situational factors which affect acculturation.

The 1980's very likely will see a major restructuring of the nation's and the world economy. In the process industries and communities that were the growth centers of previous decades will experience economic crisis. This restructuring—presaged in this country by the decaying productivity of certain basic manufacturing industries—will mean that a number of places can no longer provide sufficient income or Jobs for their people nor maintain the quality of existing public amenities. As this process of disinvestment goes forward, these communities face the challenge of finding new economic and social roles, reducing the impacts of job losses, and maintaining the quality of life within severe fiscal limits.

AbstractThe prestige of professional journals is an important element in the academic world because of the relationship of journal prestige to the careers of individuals and to the reputations of academic institutions. This study investigates the system of journal prestige in the field of criminology and criminal justice, using the ratings of professional journals obtained from a sample of respondents who are members of professional associations in criminology and criminal justice. The results show that there is a relatively high degree of agreement about the relative prestige of journals in the field, despite the fact that criminology and criminal justice is a multidisciplinary field involving professionals from a wide variety of occupational settings.

In1965 Kwame Nkrumah published a book which was to exert a powerful influence on thinking about economic development.1His thesis was that colonialism had been replaced by neo-colonialism, 'the last stage of imperialism', the essence of which was that 'the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside'.2He went on to argue that 'giant financial interests' exercised control over nominally independent states,3with the result that foreign control was used for 'the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world'.4

To understand what planning and administrative analysts do, and what they can yet do, we need a theory of planning and public administration that combines vision with practice, a theory neither solely utopian nor opportunistic. Jurgen Habermas's "critical communications theory of society" allows us to locate the planning analyst's questioning and shaping of attention, thus organizing and designing, within a political, institutional world of systematically but unnecessarily distorted (and so possibly alterable) communications. A critical theory of administration andplanning argues that the planning analysts' organizing of attention can and ought ethically to work to foster true political discourse, dialogue, and the possibilities of genuinely democratic politics.

Starting with a brief description of the historical development of the educational system in relation to the structure of the labour force, the article discusses the main factors that determine the ways human resources are used by the world of work. It appears that the process of production, technologies, and the organization of work are essential elements to understand the demand for labour; education, training and experience are crucial factors to explain the mode of adjustment of the supply of labour. Focussing on industrial workers, some 'profiles' for job histories are identified, thus contributing to explaining the recent trend in the relationship between education and employment in France.

In this article considering political, social, environmental, as well as economic and technological factors, we introduce a new approach in analyzing and resolving the world energy problem. We focus on the United States and selected members of OPEC-namely, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the UAE. We describe a "forward" and a "backward" process. In the forward process, possible future strategies and counterstrategies of each actor are matched against one another and analyzed for their effectiveness and stability. In the backward process, using previously derived information, desired scenarios for the actors are compared, the problems facing the attainment of each scenario are identified, and policies which could resolve these problems are formulated and assigned priorities.