Editorial

In the realm of ideology as well as that of action, the decade of the nineteen-sixties has been an especially turbulent one. A vast number of social assumptions, theories, and practices that used to be questioned,

if at all, by small minorities in earlier decades, have been questioned by significantly large minorities or even in some cases by majorities. This is true of virtually every social institution, indeed every sector of human activity. In the West, capitalism has been openly challenged; so, in

the East, has communism. Traditional economic theories, whether Keynesian or Marxist, have come into question. The point need not be laboured. One cannot read an informed journal or newspaper without encountering questions about formerly "secure" points of view -

whether with respect to sex ethics, human relations, or whatever.