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The article is a look at the changes that took place in the system
and teaching methods in 1997-1999 in the 30-year history of police higher education in Szczytno, by the then Commander-in-Chief of the Rector, Edward Pietkiewicz. Many years of professional experience allowed him to assess the state of affairs existing at that time and to plan undertakings aimed at improving the functioning of the Police Academy in Szczytno.

Changes in the military environment and wider society are making increasingly complex ethical demands on Australian Defence Force officers, and this article describes recent developments in ethics education at the Australian Defence Force Academy.

"Originally written . as a master's degree thesis requirement at the University of Wisconsin." ; Includes bibliography. ; Mode of access: Internet.

In The Professional Soldier (New York: Free Press, 1971), Morris Janowitz hypothesized that significant new trends ("democratization") in officer recruitment had taken place since WWII, & that these trends were particularly evident at the service academies. Specifically, Janowitz hypothesized an increase in officer recruitment from Wc families, a decline in those claiming higher-status Protestant religious affiliations & a rising proportion of Catholics, an increase in recruits from military family backgrounds, & an increase in individuals from minority backgrounds. Examining 50 years of recruitment (1925-1975) at the US Naval Academy, it was found that the early 1950s marked a significant turning point. As of the class of 1955, each of Janowitz's hypotheses was borne out. Recruitment from Wc & Catholic homes doubled, & there was a 400% increase in those coming from career military family backgrounds. Racial minorities were essentially unrepresented prior to the 1970s, but by the late 1970s, they comprised 10% of the Brigade of Midshipmen. Equally important, these new groups did not suffer disproportionate attrition but, rather, were commissioned as officers in the naval services at rates equivalent to their higher-status classmates. 11 Tables. AA.

Abstract  In this paper I discuss methods of integrating women into social stratification studies. Traditional stratification studies have focused only on the male "heads" of households. While considering this problem within a conceptual framework of theoretical assumptions and empirical evidence, I would like to review some of the earlier work in this area.I propose to differentiate social stratification into "occupational stratification" and "consumption stratification" in order to facilitate the integration of women into these studies. I shall use data from a nationwide survey to show how and why the traditional male head‐of‐household approach is inappropriate in determining the social stratification of households.Rather than considering the occupation of the male head of the household, I use the concept of "substantive complexity of work" to compare paid work with housework. If a married woman is working outside the home, I define her occupation as that which scores higher in this comparison.I also suggest that we further subcategorize consumption stratification. Finally, I propose integrating the suggestions made in this paper with the status inconsistency approach to social stratification.

Women's ongoing presence as a minority population at the U.S. Naval Academy continues to raise important questions about the extent to which they have been integrated. This study examines the enforcement of the Naval Academy's Honor Concept as an indicator of gender integration. Data from three sources are analyzed: official statistics on honor violations, a U.S. General Accounting Office Survey of midshipmen, and semistructured interviews with Naval and Marine Corps officers who attended the Academy. Official statistics reveal that women are overrepresented as alleged honor violators despite the perception among midshipmen that all social groups, including women, are treated equally. The interview data suggest that women are indirectly targeted because of three factors related to their status as a token population: high visibility, the greater likelihood of being perceived as subperformers, and the lower likelihood of being protected by norms concerning peer loyalty because of exclusion from male friendship networks.

Considers the actual situation in Russian science. The special attention is paid to the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences institutional system and to a problem of finding adequate criteria for evaluating its work in particular. In this context, the libraries and information centres' activities are analysed as the important elements of scientific communication. It is noted that the differentiated criteria for evaluating their input are not elaborated yet. The specifics of representing domestic research in the fields of social sciences and the humanities in global data bases and citation indexes is also shown.

Open City theatre—funded by a grant from the Georgia Council for the Arts and Humanities—offered a series of in-depth workshops in creative dramatics to students and teachers at the Georgia Academy for the Blind in Macon in August and September 1979. Through the process of using and adapting Open City's exercises, activities, and skills for a blind population, growth and development occurred among the members of both Open City and the academy's staff. This article describes Open City's work during these two months.