ABSTRACT
This chapter is based on research conducted for the author's doctoral dissertation, "Student Protests and Racial Disorders: Formative Influence Relations". The initial sociopolitical emphasis has been supplemented by important sociocultural dimensions. The attainment of mutuality is an essential requisite for the development of cooperative bargaining, defined elsewhere as the attainment of joint agreements through mutual adjustment of conflicting expectations. If eventually some form of negotiations do get underway, there are no guidelines to prevent all kinds of what experienced bargainers would refer to as "bad faith" practices. Without a fixed contract period and agenda or some analogous arrangements, neither side is able to make a rational assessment of what are just demands and concessions. During the 1967-68 academic year there occurred a large number of student protests against allowing war-related recruiting on campus. In terms of social research objectives, the widespread occurrence of demonstrations provided the opportunity for a controlled study of the dynamics of student protests.
