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An earlier paper presented findings which indicated that mentally ill persons described as exhibiting identical behavior were increasingly rejected when they were described as utilizing no help, utilizing a clergyman, a physician, a psychiatrist, or a mental hospital. Controls for age, religion, education, and social class position failed to diminish the relationship between help-source and rejection, but controls for experience with an emotionally disturbed help-seeker and for adherence to the norm of self-reliance tended to specify it. The previous paper was concerned with the stability of the relationship between help-source and rejection within each of the control groups, and not, for the most part, with differences among groups. In this paper, the main focus is on a comparison of the effects of educational attainment on the relation between help-source and rejection. A further focus is on the influence of (a) experience with mentally ill help-seekers, and (b) attitude toward the norm of self-reliance, two variables that serve to interpret the relationship between education and rejection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports some observations and findings resulting from a pilot study of the use of nude models posing for art classes. What happens, simply, is that for certain art classes it is thought desirable to employ persons who will model in the nude for the students in the course. When instruction of this type is offered, the college or university must employ such a model. In this paper we will discuss some of the problems of finding and maintaining him or her, and the conduct of the students and model toward one another. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper has examined effects on mobility of education level, social class background, and strength of achievement motive. The attainment of some college education is shown to enhance greatly the likelihood of upward mobility and reduce the likelihood of downward mobility. However, much mobility is not attributable to the factor of education. Strength of achievement motive is shown to exert noticeable influence, on upward mobility especially, among persons who lack any college training. An analysis of the interaction of factors associated with social class background, strength of achievement motive, and level of education in the determination of mobility is offered; the analysis rationalizes both the absence of expected relationships between strength of achievement motive and mobility among persons from upper middle-class backgrounds, and the presence of such relationships among persons from the other social class groups. The correctness of this latter analysis will, of course, turn upon the results of future research in which more refined measures of social class variables are used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports on a study which examined the input parental status has on the timing of career decision. Data for this study were collected by means of questionnaire from graduating seniors from 24 colleges and universities. It was hypothesized that students from upper-status parents would choose their future career later in their life than would students with lower-status parents. Although the data tend to support the hypothesis, it seems to hold more true for females than for males. This difference was attributed to the varying emphasis placed upon the responsibility for the achievement of success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to determine whether, using 1960 census data, differences do exist in occupational and educational attainment for second-generation males of United Kingdom, German, and Italian background, in Northeastern United States. The data are presented with controls for age so that analysis may be made separately for those who were becoming educated and becoming employed in two quite different periods in our nation's social and economic development. Additional data from the 1960 census are presented to view the educational and occupational pattern for the three groups throughout the entire United States, by geographical regions, and for a smaller age category (25 to 34) than that presented in the other tables, in order to determine how typical the Northeast region is of the entire country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the address given by the author during the general session of the Midwest Sociological Society's 25th anniversary meeting on April 13, 1962, in Des Moines, Iowa. It discusses the author's experience with the society and his participation in its previous annual conferences. During his term as secretary of the society he has observed the changes in the structure and the functions of the society since its reorganization in 1937. The most important phenomenon having implications for a regional society is the decline in regionalism of American sociology. Regionalism, in the sense that it existed in 1937 has disappeared. The birth of the society have a significant impact on the origins of modern American sociology. The educational institutions established by notable members of the society have contributed to the production of doctor of philosophy degree in sociology.

The armed forces are structurally changing in the direction of the bureaucratic-managerial model. This change is reflected in the increasingly important role played by the top military college charged with training senior officers to integrate the military and industrial spheres. Data are provided on the origin of the college and its mission, the demographic characteristics of the students, the changing content of the military-industrial curriculum, and the organization and quality of the faculty. Student performance on a standardized admissions test is compared with national norms. The overall strengths and weaknesses of the college and its role in turning out military leaders with managerial skills is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In view of the growing competition for college admittance and the greater skills required in an increasingly complex and technically oriented society, this study was undertaken to determine the importance of academic achievement as a student value in the latter 1960's. The importance of academic achievement for students was supported in terms of the most long range measure, namely being remembered as a brilliant student. In terms of the measure directed at present popularity among students, valuation of academic achievement occupied a middle position. Leaders were found to value academic achievement significantly more highly than non-leaders. Students with white collar parents valued academic achievement more highly than students with blue collar parents but results were not statistically significant in each case. An explanation for the lack of confirmation of the relationship between social class and valuation of academic achievement was ascribed to the strong college aspirations of blue collar students at the school under study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

About half a century ago Durkheim asserted that Protestants show a greater degree of anomie than do Catholics. Although Durkheim's assertion was based on limited studies, his statement has sparked considerable empirical research into the phenomena surrounding anomie. The social scientist interested in this topic today has numerous earlier studies and a selection of research instruments on which to draw in designing his own research. Among the most useful of the studies on anomie up to the present time are those by Srole, Nettler, Meier and Bell, Bell, Mizruchi, Dean, and Dean and Reeves. The study by Dean and Reeves is particularly interesting in terms of both questions answered and questions raised. Since this present study was conducted in response to the questions raised by the Dean and Reeves research, it will be necessary to review briefly their research procedures and findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1958 Morris L. Cogan, faculty member of the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, after an extended survey, summary, and analysis of definitions of "profession," submitted one of his own, stressing disciplined knowledge and ethical—i.e., altruistic —service. A few years later, apparently not too happy with his own product, he again reviewed the problem of defining a profession, this time elaborating a three-dimensional analysis based on the principle of "levels" of definitions. The first level, historical and lexicographical, is supposedly freighted with rich historical and traditional associations. His own product was subsumed under this category. The next level, "persuasive," includes idealistic, emotive, and affectively evocative elements considered to have value in directing or redirecting people's attitudes. The third level of definition, which he termed "operational," is designed to furnish the basis upon which individuals and associations may make specific decisions as to the behavioral concomitants of a profession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses trends and issues affecting sociology during the 25-year existence of the Midwest Sociological Society. During the covered period the influence of the pioneers in the building of American sociology, though waning, was still directly transmitted through some of their students who held key positions in sociology departments in the Midwest. The generation that first established and manned sociology departments in the burgeoning universities and colleges of the Midwest was for the most part strongly imbued with the idea and ideal of social progress. In place of social philosophies built on dubious foundations, the discipline has a nascent but growing science. The new empiric mood and objective orientation expelled not only the sociology of progress but brought into considerable disrepute the sociology of reform. Ambilances about the trends affecting the discipline of sociology have been raised by problems precipitated by the onset of the space age and mass higher education.