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Show 151 5. The Society for Applied Anthropology is profoundly convinced that only when the foregoing recommendations are adopted generally will it be possible to achieve a broader and better effectiveness and yield in the exercise of the specific activities of each of the aforementioned professions. Farrel, Joseph P. "La educacion y el cambio social en el marco expandido del pluralismo," Anuario Indigenista, XXIX, (December, 1969), pp. 173-185. English Summary: A number of conceptual problems which must be considered before a thorough analysis of the role of education in social change in plural societies can be undertaken are examined and tentative answers suggested. For example, must change occur in both the social and cultural aspects of an institution, in both the patterned inter-active behavior and the norms and values which guide and legitimate the patterns, before one can identify an institution as having changed? Does the development of a bicul-turative pattern among subordinates represent a change away from pluralism? At what point, as subordinate institutions become increasingly similar to superordinate institutions, can one claim that a significant difference, and hence a plural condition, ceases to obtain? Considering the basic institutional systems, a number of alternative paths away from pluralism are indicated, and attention is given to 1) the likelihood of each occurring and 2) the possible and/or actual role of education in each. It is suggested that education is likely to play an important role only in those cases where change away from a plural condition begins in the property-economy institutional system. If change does begin in this area, formal education can support the initial changes, stimulate further changes in other basic institutions, and promote the value orientation shifts requisite to a change from a plural to a heterogeneous society. 1970 McQuown, Norman A. "El papel de la lengua materna en la educacion nacional," America Indigena, XXX No. 2 (April, 1970), pp. 387-393. English Summary: The author considers that the variety of human resources, whose fomentation is indispensable, is manifested primarily in the variety of the individual personality. This individual personality has social, cultural and linguistic aspects. All education policies which may lead to the maximization of this variety, when it is also coupled with a maximization of flexibility and adaptability, will contribute to our continuity. The mother tongue, whatever it may be, is one of the first vehicles by which this variety is shaped, and provides a base for |