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Publication Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 1, Number 2 (WINTER, 1976): Front Matter(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1976-01-01)Publication CONSENSUS, CONFLICT, AND INTERNATIONAL STRATIFICATION THEO'RIES OF MODERNIZATION: AN EVALUATION(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1976-01-01) Lane, William C.This paper reviews two of the maier sociological theories of modemization, the consensus and conflict perspectives. These two theories are used to analyze some aspects of the economic and political situation in Chile. The international stratification approach is then presented as a third theory. Based upon criteria developed during the critique of the consensus and conflict theories, it is argued that the intemational stratification paradigm offers a synthesis of these two approaches which may be able to fulfill the requirements for a comprehensive sociologicaltheory of modernization.Publication VALUE AS A SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPT(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1976-01-01) Hawley, Amos H.Publication Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 1, Number 2 (WINTER, 1976): Book Review(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1976-01-01) McDonald, Roderick A.Publication STRUCTURAL ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1976-01-01) Hingers, Robert H.Hillery's constructed types are used as a framework to develop a hypothesis regarding the relationship between forms of social organization and the integration and longevity of the group. The hypothesis is tested using: (1) failure rates of businesses and marriages, and (2) failure rates of variously structured intentional communities. Both tests support the hypothesis that communal organizations, which permit structural freewheeling, are more stable than formal organizations, which donot.Publication STUDENT VALUES AND PRESTIGE STRUCTURE WITHIN TWO SECONDARY SCHOOL SYSTEMS(Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1976-01-01) Lacy, Michael G.Two factors are hypothesized to underlie the prestige of students within secondary school systems: family background, and personal qualities of the student. In a survey of two school systems, this hypothesis was not supported. An additional hypothesis suggested that the content of student values should become more like those of the adult world as the students progress through high school; this was partially supported. The prestige values cited by student respondents are similar to those found in earlier studies by Coleman and Hollingshead. However, a new complex of anti-establishment values is also revealed in student responses.