Showing papers on "Field (Bourdieu) published in 1975"

Worker conflicts in the health field: an overview.

Abstract: The author, guest editor of this section of the Journal, in this overview of worker conflicts in the health field, briefly discusses the six papers that follow, and attempts to place into perspective the handling of conflicts with highly professionalized workers such as physicians, as contrasted with the handling of conflicts with health workers who are not professionalized, the semiskilled and unskilled.

Policy Experiments Selected Analytic Issues

Abstract: Policy experiments represent a powerful tool for testing the consequences of contemplated social programs. However, experimentation in the policy field raises perplexing problems and issues, some o...

Method of playing baseball

Abstract: An improved baseball field for use by different forms or classes of players wherein a conventional baseball field has designated thereon a first field area used by one form and a second field area designated for use by a second form werein each of two teams have members of both forms on said teams such that the members of the two forms on one team play together in a cooperative manner. The game played on the improved baseball field is substantially the same game as played on conventional fields.

Introductory Essay: Comparative Education: The State of the Field

Abstract: All fields of study appear to be marked by similar phases of growth. In the beginning, contributions to the field tend to be discrete and unsystematic, prompted by the curiosity of the observers and their inherent interest in the subject. There are no rules, just the special insights and motivations of single observers, whose accounts are descriptive and usually lack systematic reporting or an expressed framework of theory. As work in the field of study increases, reporting becomes more systematic and comprehensive, and the reporters are more self-conscious about the accuracy of their data and more concerned about the ways in which they arrive at conclusions from the data. The curiosity of observers becomes more focused on the possibilities of practical applications of new knowledge, and they are inclined to be critical of their own work and that of their colleagues. Particular types of studies emerge, marked by particular theoretical approaches to the subject, characteristic ways of observing and reporting, and broad agreement on what is or is not relevant. Practitioners in the field become aware of the precedents and of their intellectual ancestors, as well as the kinds of effort their contemporaries are directing at similar targets of study. Comparative education has demonstrated all these characteristics during its development. The literature includes a wide array of subjects and approaches, symptomatic of the varied motives for studying foreign educational systems. It encompasses narrative description of single nations prompted by interest and curiosity, selective and structured observations motivated by the desire to apply lessons from abroad to the solution of educational problems at home, and encyclopedic codification of the "facts" about many countries. Such work may be impressionistic and even normative, providing a wealth of information and insights about the nations studied. In addition, it often reveals much about the culturally determined predilections of its authors.

Inner-City Field Work in Learning Disabilities.

Abstract: A program involving college psychology majors in the diagnosis and remediation of specific learning disabilities of children in an East Harlem school.