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2. Discussion of paper by Dr. George A. Silver: "American medicine: technology outruns social usefulness".
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Lipkin M
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- United States, Medicine, Sociology
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- 1970
3. Four papers related to the challenge to psychiatry in a changing world: a symposium. Introduction.
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Leighton AH
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- Humans, Psychiatry, Sociology
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- 1966
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4. Papers in linguistics from the 1972 Conference on Iroquoian Research
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FOSTER, MICHAEL K., EDITOR: and FOSTER, MICHAEL K.
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- 1974
5. Canadian Political Science Association Conference on Statistics 1964 : Papers on Regional Statistical Studies
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OSTRY, SYLVIA, RYMES, T. K., OSTRY, SYLVIA, and RYMES, T. K.
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- 1966
6. Studia Varia : (Royal Society of Canada, Literary and Scientific Papers)
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MURRAY, E. G. D., EDITED BY and MURRAY, E. G. D.
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- 1957
7. Our Debt to the Future : (Royal Society of Canada, Literary and Scientific Papers)
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MURRAY, E. G. D., EDITED BY and MURRAY, E. G. D.
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- 1958
8. WHERE ARE THE LIVING A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF ALFRED SCHUTZ.
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Popkin, Patricia
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BOOKS ,SOCIAL theory ,CONSCIOUSNESS ,APPERCEPTION ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
In his book "Collected Papers," sociologist Alfred Schutz offers a thorough going critique of the discipline of sociology as it is usually conceived, and attempts to re-found sociology on the basis of a theory of consciousness. Schutz begins his reasoning with a brief examination of what sociology is and does. Sociology, in contrast to philosophy, is ordinarily conceived to have as its subject how men act. Sociology, then, must examine the empirical rather than the logical, possibilities open to men. Instead of asking how well a certain sociological theory relates to other theories in the field and instead of trying to gauge how well statements of theory relate to the data, Schutz focuses on the relation of both theory and data to the phenomenon itself, the phenomenon of man in a social world. In this way, Schutz challenges both the theory of sociology and its supportive data. But, there is an ironic turn in Schutz's argument. The problem of sociology is not that its empirical methods are incorrect, but rather that its theorizing is faulty. In other words, sociological data are inadequate not because sociologists are unable to "get at" the data of everyday life with scientific methods, but because they do not think properly.
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- 1967
9. Comment on Papers on the Nature of Sociology by Sister Mechtraud, S. Sp. S., by Professor Ella, and by Dr. Charles Houston, Jr.
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Madigan, Francis C.
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SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences ,SOCIAL engineering (Political science) ,SOCIOLOGISTS ,SOCIAL services ,SOCIAL problems - Abstract
The article comments on papers presented in a symposium on the nature and scope of sociology. Like other theoretical sciences, sociology is concerned with knowledge, not action, and thus sociology consists solely in scientific method and techniques, and in the organized body of theory and knowledge developed through the application of these. In this view, social engineering, which is the application of this knowledge to practical problems as through social work, social reform, or Christian social reconstruction, is definitely not sociology, although many sociologists participate in such engineering. When a sociologist participates in social engineering, he should realize that he is stepping over the boundaries of his role as a scientist. Like moral philosophy, sociology studies what can be observed of men's interactions through the use of the senses, but unlike philosophy it proceeds to testing the truth by a purely inductive criterion. In science, the ultimate test of all theories and hypotheses must be an inductive examination of whether they conform to the facts of sensible phenomena. It is this which distinguishes the knowledge of science from that of mathematics, philosophy or theology. It is for this reason that metaphysical principles may not be invoked to prove scientific questions.
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- 1958
10. Comment on Deutcher's Paper.
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Blumer, Herbert
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REFERENCE groups , *SOCIAL groups , *SOCIAL participation , *SOCIAL theory , *INTERPERSONAL relations , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
Tins paper is intended as an effort at taking-stock of the reference group concept after nearly three decades of use, the latter two of which have been marked by its more than ample employment. Its popularity indeed has so frequently led to its serving as an all-purpose post hoc explanation of behavior that it has led to the wry definition, "Your reference group is a group that you behave like and you behave like them because they're your reference group" (Cohen, 1962: 104). The inconsistencies, lack of clarity, but also areas of agreement which have marked the varied formulations of the concept, will be apparent from the following review and commentary. The Final discussion indicates some of the matters still to be considered in the use of thin important but perhaps overworked concept. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1970
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11. Papers and Abstracts.
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Penrose, Lionel S.
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MENTAL health ,PSYCHIATRY ,PSYCHOLOGY ,NEUROLOGICAL disorders ,SOCIOLOGY ,GENETICS - Abstract
The article discusses the study of mental deficiency as a branch of mental medicine. Many regard the field to be of minor importance but it is actually a difficult one. It implies a wide understanding of psychology, neuropathology, sociology and genetics. The training, understanding and care of the high grade cases is a part of the major problem of constructing a sound democratic civilized community, in which every healthy citizen can play a useful part.
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- 1941
12. Comments On Warriner's Paper.
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Turk, Austin
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SOCIAL development ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL history - Abstract
The article comments on the paper related to social development in the Philippines. The author of the paper had neglected the vast body of European and American study of and in both Western and non-Western societies. Even though it is justifiable that conceptualization and methodology must be developed in relation to the particular "time-space characteristics" of the research situation, it not justifiable to adopt some as yet undeveloped and essentially unknown "new" theory. The author of the paper had discarded too lightly the enormous experience of "Western" social scientists in observation and interpretive analysis of socio-cultural patterns ranging from the most "scared" to the most nearly "secular." The use of scientific experience remains the most powerful intellectual guide which man has yet devised. The de-emphasis of "quantitativism" in favor of field and problem-oriented study is vitally necessary. The author of the paper easy slip into the concretistic error of assuming that the historical peculiarities of Philippine societal development require unique interpretive tools.
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- 1961
13. SOCIOLOGICAL PAPERS FOR THE PEOPLE.
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SOCIAL change ,SOCIAL evolution ,SOCIOLOGY ,PERIODICALS ,JOURNALISTS - Abstract
The article discusses about the sociological papers for the people. In response to a challenge of this order from the Editors of the "Beacon," a series of popular sociological expositions, or, as they might be called, "Papers for the People" has been designed by the senior Editor of the "Sociological Review." Some idea of their scope and aims may be gathered from the following titles adopted for representative specimens of the projected papers. The series begins with a paper entitled "Rival Economies and Their Life Values." The first of these papers on current social evolution will appear in the January issue of the "Beacon." For the information of those not acquainted with this journal, written largely by and for men tried in the furnace of the war and found resistant to the temptation of disillusionment, it may be stated the "Beacon" is a monthly magazine devoted to the fashioning of a finer vision of life for the coming times. Now in its second year, it is edited by E. R. Appleton, assisted by Captain W. Wadsworth and Captain Ivor McClure.
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- 1923
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14. THE OPERATION OF SCIENCE JOURNALS: TWO CASE STUDIES IN BRITISH SOCIAL SCIENCE.
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Whitley, Richard D.
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PERIODICALS ,SOCIAL institutions ,SOCIAL systems ,IDEOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
The role of archival journals in the communication system of science has been recognized as important by many writers.' The nature of the scientific reward system and the ideology of pure science ensures that public communication is central to the social system of science. The two journals considered here were in a sample of thirty-two British social science journals whose editors and referee organizations were discussed in an earlier paper. Their submission and rejection rates were similar to the median rates for the journals, but their age was less than that of the majority. They were both founded within five years of the year whose submissions were studied; such young journals constituted about a third of the journals in the sample. The differences in research area and autonomy affected the nature of the journals' referee systems. The pure discipline journal sent most of its submissions to a regular panel of editorial referees for evaluation and the editor usually accepted their recommendations.
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- 1970
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15. Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1899-1900. Volume 1
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Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Education (ED)
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The Commissioner of Education's introduction in volume 1 provides data and discussion on school and college total enrollment, common schools, average schooling amount per U.S. inhabitant, British India's public schools, truant schools, Puerto Rican schools, U.S. educational extension, sociology and education at the Paris Exposition, introduction of reindeer into Alaska, city school systems, higher education, law student increase, land-grant colleges, secondary schools, education of the colored race, and education in Central Europe, Great Britain, the Philippines, Cuba, Hawaii, and Samoa. The introduction lists letter topics received by the office in 1900.Subsequent chapters cover British India's public schools; boys' secondary schools in England; general information on truant schools, statements on truant schools in various cities, laws on the disposition of truants and incorrigibles in 17 states, discussion of British reformatories and allied institutions and expanded coverage of Puerto Rican education. Chapter V, on U.S. educational extension, addresses lyceums, university extension, Chautauqua, summer schools, cities and popular education, arts and music for the people, travel and pilgrimage as educational extension, the idea of a national university, the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, museum extension, higher commercial schools, and newspapers as popular educators. A chapter on common school organization and development from 1830 to 1860 covers the South Central and South Atlantic states. Papers from the 1900 Department of Superintendence meeting in Chicago are presented in chapter VII, including papers on education status at the turn of the century, and on alcohol physiology and superintendence with a discussion paper on that subject. The next chapter covers schoolteachers' role in the struggle against alcoholism, while chapter XXI, the last chapter, discusses temperance physiology. Chapters X, XI, and XII concern college students' adjustment to professional courses, justification for public high schools, and free rural high schools. The National Educational Association committee report on relationship between public libraries and public schools is found in chapter XIII. This includes sections on establishing village libraries, rural and small village libraries, small-library cataloging hints, the librarian's spirit and methods working with schools, certain typical libraries, and schoolroom libraries. Final chapters cover Central European education; public playgrounds and vacation schools; the Old South lectures and leaflets; statistics on public, society, and school libraries; British and Irish education; U.S. education periodicals, and a directory of chief state school officers, city superintendents, college presidents, and normal school principals. [For volume 2, see ED622192.]
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- 1901
16. The 8mm "Term Paper": On Helping Sociology Undergraduates to Make Films.
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Francis, Roy G.
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FILMMAKING ,SOCIOLOGY ,HYPOTHESIS ,HUMAN behavior ,SOCIAL sciences ,SCHOOL discipline - Abstract
The article comments on film-making process. The film-making process requires that a person reduce an abstract idea to a visual form. One must be able to visualize people doing something and then capture that on film. In one sense, film-making is a test of the hypothesis that sociology is a behavioral science. Students should learn how to make theoretically based films for these and the additional reason that thus they can better learn their discipline. By writing a paper, the good student learns his subject. He learns the ideas and that he can control them. But, in writing, he often learns to become a manipulator of words and loses any concern about the behavioral reference they may or may not have. In making a film, however, the student does come face to face with connecting his ideas to human behavior. In film-making, one can delineate a set of roles which, taken together, result in the finished product. There is the producer, the person who has the ultimate responsibility for the film, the one who, nominally at least, has the concept of the entire production.
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- 1974
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17. The American Journal of Sociology Through Fifty Years
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Shanas, Ethel
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- 1945
18. NEW BOOKS RECEIVED.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences ,CIVILIZATION ,CULTURE - Abstract
This section presents a bibliography of books on sociology.
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- 1964
19. Reply to McCormick and Benson.
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Price, James L.
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ORGANIZATIONAL effectiveness ,INDUSTRIAL efficiency ,ORGANIZATIONAL sociology ,PERFORMANCE standards ,MANAGEMENT ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This article responds to author's commentaries on the article "The Study of Organizational Effectiveness," by J. L. Price. The basis of simplistic approach rests with three assumptions supposedly made by the paper. First, the paper, according to the authors, assumes uniformity in the meanings that respondents attach to words designating core organizational activities. The paper assumes that respondents possess knowledge and competency with respect to the evaluation of nursing care within their limited spheres of involvement in the hospitals. Although, it may be desirable to have a general measure of organizational effectiveness for the reason suggested in the paper, this may not be possible. Some scholars believe that organizational effectiveness is so specific that a general measure cannot be developed.
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- 1973
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20. Discussion of paper by Dr. George A. Silver: 'American medicine: technology outruns social usefulness'
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Lipkin, M
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Sociology ,Medicine ,United States ,Research Article - Published
- 1970
21. A Review of Public Health Realities: Papers of Charles V. Chapin, M.D
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C.-E.A. Winslow
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Public health ,medicine ,Library science ,General Medicine ,Sociology ,Book Review - Published
- 1934
22. NEW BOOKS RECEIVED.
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BOOKS ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This article presents a list of books related to sociology, political and economics. Some of the books are "An Introduction to Anthropology," 3rd ed., by Ralph L. Beals and Harry Hoijer; "Social Foundations of Human Behavior: Introduction to the Study of Sociology," by Earl H. Bell and John Sirjamaki; "The Role of Trade Associations and Professional Business Societies in America," by Joseph F. Bradley; "Public Opinion: Nature, Formation, and Role," by Harwood L. Childs; "The Prehistory of East Africa," by Sonia Cole; "Men of Ideas: A Sociologist's View," by Lewis A. Coser; "Problems in Social and Political Thought: A Philosophical Introduction," by Whitaker T. Deininger; "The White House Years: Mandate for Change, 1953-1956," by Dwight D. Eisenhower; "Hostages of Fortune: Child Labor Problems in New York State," by Jeremy P. Felt; "Psychology in Scientific Thinking," by Ernst Friedlander; "A Comparative Study of the White and the Negro High School Students' Use of Alcohol in Two Mississippi Communities," by Gerald Globetti and Margaret McReynolds; "Magna Carta: Text and Commentary," by A. E. Dick Howard; "Farewell to Eden," by Matthew Huxley and Cornell Capa and "Steaming: An Education System in Miniature," by Brian Jackson.
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- 1965
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23. NEW BOOKS RECEIVED.
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BOOKS ,SOCIOLOGY ,ECONOMIC development ,POPULATION ,ORGANIZATION ,EMPLOYMENT ,EDUCATION ,SOCIAL classes - Abstract
The article presents a list of various books related to sociology received by the editorial department of the journal. Various books included in this list are "The Mind of Africa," by W.E. Abraham, "Piritim A. Sorokin in Review," edited by Philip J. Allen, "Economic Development: Objectives and Methods," by Paul Alpert, "Proceedings of the Social Statistics Section, 1962," "Eichmann in Jerusalem," by Hannah Arendt, "On Revolution," by Hannah Arendt, "I Giovani Nella Societa Industriale," Guido Baglioni, "Expanding Population in a Shrinking World," by Marston Bates, "Leadership and Dynamic Group Action," by George M. Beal, Joe M. Bohlen and J. Neil Raudabaugh, "The Structure and Dynamics of Organizations and Groups," by Eric Berne, "Learning Your Way Through College," by Elton S. Carter and Iline Fife, "Homes, School and Work: A Study of the Education and Employment of Young People in Britain," by M.P. Carter, "Conflict and Conformity: A Probability Model and Its Application," by Bernard P. Cohen, "The Cutteslowe Walls: A Study in Social Class," by Peter Collison, etc.
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- 1963
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24. POSITION PAPERS SUGGEST HISTORY.
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Brunner, Edmund DeS.
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RURAL sociology ,SOCIOLOGISTS ,STATE universities & colleges ,EDUCATIONAL sociology ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL sciences ,EDUCATION - Abstract
This article comments on the position papers in the June 1967 issue of Rural Sociology. The author asserts that the papers are a mark of growing maturity of the rural sociology profession. It took years before the state universities and colleges assumed the dominant role of that they have achieved in the development of rural sociology. Contributions of the early sociologists to the applied field are presented to emphasize their historical value.
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- 1967
25. Comment: [Catholic Sociological Research]
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Mueller, Franz H., Ross, Eva J., and Willigan, Walter L.
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- 1942
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26. Dialectical Sociology: An Exemplar for the 1970s
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Friedrichs, Robert W.
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- 1972
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27. The Second Annual Meetings of the Section on Sociology and Social Work of the American Sociological Society: A Critical Review
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Karpf, Fay B.
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- 1929
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28. ASA NEWS.
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Lenski, Gerhard, Janowitz, Morris, Bahr, Howard, Short, James F., Costner, Herbert L., Mikva, Abner J., and M.C.
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SOCIOLOGY ,ANNUAL meetings ,PUBLICATIONS - Abstract
The article presents information on various developments in the field of sociology. For the 1970 national meetings of the American Sociological Association, special efforts are being made to expand and enlarge the seminar sessions. These sessions are an experiment in seeking to make available a new format at the convention in order to overcome fragmented sessions and to permit discussion in depth. The luncheon roundtables at the Annual Meeting continue to be highly successful and more than 100 are being scheduled for the 1970 meeting. Herbert L. Costner of the University of Washington will replace Edgar F. Borgatta as editor of Sociological Methodology as of January 1, 1970. Papers will be accepted for review for Sociological Methodology: 1971 from January, 1970, through September 1970. They will be accepted or rejected as soon as sufficient editorial review is available, usually in 6 to 12 weeks. Papers accepted early in the year will be available for any necessary revision before the publisher's deadline, and hence early submission is encouraged.
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- 1970
29. ON JOURNAL EDITING AS A PROBABILISTIC PROCESS.
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Stinchcombe, Arthur L. and Ofshe, Richard
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PERIODICALS ,SOCIOLOGY ,STANDARD deviations ,ANALYSIS of variance ,PROBABILITY theory ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
The process of evaluating papers for journal publication is a measurement process, similar to the other measurement processes of qualitative material in the social sciences. A good qualitative measurement technique rarely has a reliability coefficient of more than about 0.50 i.e., a correlation of 0.50 of one measurement with another measurement by the same technique. The square root of the reliability of a measure is the upper limit of its validity. If it is assumed that journal editing as a measurement process is as good as good qualitative measurement can possibly be, given this experience in the social sciences it would estimate the validity of a judgment of article quality to be about 0.70. The two major journals in Sociology accept about 16 per cent of the papers submitted to them. If the quality of papers judged is approximately normal, then one can say that papers judged to be 1 standard deviation or more above the mean of papers submitted will be accepted. Assuming a correlation of 0.70 between the true quality of the paper and the judged quality, one can estimate the proportion of acceptances of papers of different quality.
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- 1969
30. Abstracts of Papers and Round-Table Discussions.
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SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIAL alienation ,AGING ,CONSUMER behavior - Abstract
This article presents abstracts of several studies related to sociology. Irving Crespi presented an analysis concerning the relations between anomie, alienation, and privatization. Joel Fuerst discussed the business of satisfying the unsatisfied demands of Europe. Daniel Lerner examined a shift from the earlier revolution of rising expectations, via a long sequence of unachieved ambitions and disappointed hopes, in the direction of what may be becoming a revolution of rising frustrations. Marjorie Fiske Lowenthal summarized several studies dealing with normal and abnormal adjustment in the aging process, based on panel studies of 1,200 mentally well and mentally impaired persons sixty years and older interviewed at three points in time. John T. Lanzetta reported data from a number of studies that explore direct and indirect procedures for measuring subjective uncertainty. Clark Leavitt presented the relation between a measure of information transmission called meaningfulness and day-after recall scores from field tests. Wallace H. Wallace presented methods to evaluate consumer behavior in the laboratory. Stanley Peterfreund examined a study in 1961 about the barriers to achieving a superior level of customer service.
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- 1966
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31. BOOKS RECEIVED.
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EDUCATION ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This section presents bibliography of books on education, sociology and law.
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- 1972
32. Bibliographies: Swedes, Danes, Finns, Icelanders, and Norwegians in Minnesota.
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Gustavus Adolphus Coll., St. Peter, Minn.
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Produced for college students, five bibliographies list emigration and immigration sources related to the peopling of Minnesota by Scandanavian groups (Swedes, Danes, Finns, Icelanders, and Norwegians). Over 400 citations identify books, articles, conference papers, diaries, personal papers of families, and historical society papers from the late 19th Century through the 1970s. Each bibliography is arranged alphabetically by author and divided into sections according to English language titles, Scandanavian titles, and documents. Materials can be found in the libraries of The Minnesota Historical Society, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Olaf College, Norwegian American Historical Society, and the University of Minnesota. (KC)
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- 1974
33. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CONTRIBUTED PAPERS.
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Jocher, Katharine, Tappan, Paul W., and Winston, Ellen
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NEWSPAPER sections, columns, etc. ,PERIODICALS ,REPORT writing ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIETIES - Abstract
The 1946 Committee on Contributed Papers of the American Sociological Society, has several suggestions to offer: If sufficient interest is shown in the Section of the contributed papers published in a section of the periodical "American Sociological Review," the section should be continued, since it gives opportunity for younger men and women to appear on the program and become known to the Society. More- over, it stimulates the interest of the younger sociologists in the meetings. This year 20 papers were submitted; last year there were only 8. An opportunity to appear on the program of the Society, together with the possibility of publication in the periodical apparently is desired, as evidenced not only by the number of papers submitted but by the fact that both years every participant, upon the acceptance of his manuscript, has immediately signified his intention of being present to read his paper. It would be well for the Committee to be appointed early enough for it to get well underway in the spring. During the last two years, the Committee has been handicapped by not getting underway until the summer or fall.
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- 1947
34. Eminence in Sociology: Three Measures.
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Hanson, David J.
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This paper identifies eminent persons in the field of sociology using three measures: 1) the number of sociologists who identify a peer as eminent (reputation score); 2) the mean ranking these individuals receive from peers (frequency score); and 3) the number of citations made in the literature to the work of such individuals (citation score). In 1977, questionnaires were mailed to a sample of 300 sociologists randomly selected from the membership of the American Sociological Association. Respondents were provided an alphabetical list of names found by Swatos and Swatos (1974) to have been the most frequently cited in introductory sociology texts. They were asked to rank the ten most significant sociologists. Names could be added to the list. The return rate was 61%. The number of citations to an individual's work was calculated using the 1976 volume of the "Social Sciences Citation Index." The results of all data indicated that while reputation and frequency were highly associated, citation was not closely associated with either. The author concluded that the frequency with which a sociologist's work is cited in the current journal literature provides an index of eminence that is quantitative, objective, and readily available. (Author/RM)
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- 1974
35. Secondary Schools in the States of Central America, South America, and the West Indies: Scholastic Scope and Standards. Bulletin, 1915, No. 26. Whole Number 653
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Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Education (ED) and Smith, Anna Tolman
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The States of Central America and South America are in the midst of an industrial development, which imparts new impulses to their educational activities. There is at once an awakened sense of the economic bearings of elementary or popular education and of the need of a readjustment of the work of the long-established secondary schools. Efforts in the latter direction are of special interest to other nations, as it is in the secondary schools that the directive classes are educated. Schools of this order determine in great measure the opinions and purposes of the men who control public affairs and promote international sympathies and interests. In all the States secondary education is the preparatory stage to higher institutions and in several instances forms a department in the university organization. The intimate view of the content of secondary education in the States of Central and South America afforded by the particulars discussed in this paper is of interest to all persons engaged in promoting international relations, and particularly so to those who must determine the equivalence of the scholastic standards maintained in different countries. A bibliography is included. Individual sections contain footnotes. [Best copy available has been provided.]
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- 1915
36. BOOKS RECEIVED.
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BOOKS & reading ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This article presents a list of books, related to sociology. Some of the books included in the article are "Trade Unionism," by J.A. Banks, "Caught in the Act: Children, Society and the Law," by M. Berlins and G. Wansell, "The International Urban Crisis," by T.L. Blair, "The Mafia of a Sicilian Village: A Study of Violent Peasant Entrepreneurs," by A. Blok, "Abandonment of Children in Jamaica," by E. Brodber, "On Community, Family and Delinquency," by E.W. Burgess, "Renewing Urban Teaching," by L.F. Claydon, "Greedy Institutions: Patterns of Undivided Commitment," by L.A. Coser, etc.
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- 1974
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37. BOOKS RECEIVED.
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BOOKS & reading ,SOCIOLOGY ,CONSENSUS (Social sciences) ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
This article presents a list of books, related to sociology. Some of the books mentioned in the article are "The Idea of a Spiritual Power: Comte Memorial Lecture," by H.B. Acton, "Gypsy Politics and Social Change," by T. Action, "Women in America," by E.H. Altbach, "Human Behavior in the Social Environment," by R.E. Anderson and I.E. Carter, "The Essential Comte," edited by S. Anderski, "The Social Control of Drugs," by P. Bean, "Computers and the Social Sciences," by A. Brier and I. Robinson and "Knowledge, Education and Cultural Change," edited by R. Brown.
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- 1974
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38. MR. ENOCK'S PAPER.
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Enock, C. R.
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LETTERS to the editor ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
Presents a letter to the editor about sociology.
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- 1921
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39. EXPANDING AND DECLINING FIELDS IN AMERICAN SOCIOLOGY.
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Simpson, Richard L.
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SOCIOLOGY ,TRENDS ,WORLD War II ,EXPERTISE - Abstract
The article reports some trends in the relative emphasis devoted to different specialties within the field of sociology in the U.S. since World War II. According to the author, sociology has grown since World War II in the number of courses taught, the number of people who make their living as sociologist and the amount of research done. The field has expanded so rapidly that virtually all special areas of interest within the field have shared in the general growth. As proportions of the total, however, some areas of specialization have gained at the expense of others. In the article sources of information used to asses trends in sociology include fields of interest listed by members for American Sociological Association directory, papers read at annual meetings of the Association, papers published in the journal "American Sociological Review" and course listings in college catalogs. The author states that in analyzing and interpreting the data, he had to make certain assumptions, which may be debatable. The author makes no ambitious claims for the absolute validity of interpretations.
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- 1961
40. USE OF NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS IN SCIENTIFIC CRIME DETECTION. 12- Month Summary Report for the Period November 1, 1963-October 31, 1964
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Guinn, V.
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- 1965
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41. W. I. Thomas on Social Organization and Social Personality, Selected Papers.
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Coso, Virginia
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SOCIOLOGY , *NONFICTION - Abstract
Reviews the book "W. . Thomas on Social Organizations and Social Personality, Selected Papers," edited by Morris Janowitz.
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- 1969
42. Historical Sociology: The Selected Papers of Bernhard J. Stern (Book).
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Coser, Rose Laub
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SOCIOLOGY , *NONFICTION - Abstract
Reviews the book "Historical Sociology: The Selected Papers of Bernhard J. Stern."
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- 1960
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43. NEW PLANS FOR PAPERS FOR THE 1949 MEETINGS.
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Parsons, Talcott
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PLANNING ,MANAGEMENT committees ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIETIES ,PUBLISHING ,MEETINGS - Abstract
The article presents new plans for papers for the 1949 meetings of the American Sociological Society. It states that by action of the Executive Committee, approved by the Society, a "Committee on Papers for the 1949 Meeting" has been appointed. The chairman of the committee is Paul W. Tappan and its other members are Robert Fans, William L. Kolb and Arnold Rose. Members of the society are requested to submit to this Committee a prospectus or full paper, which they would like to present at the 1949 sessions. This Committee is empowered to receive and examine these papers and submit those approved to the Program Committee and the respective section chairman. From these papers, the Program Committee and section chairmen will make up their programs so far as this is feasible. However, the Program Committee and Section Chairmen are free to request any additional papers they may feel necessary to fill out their plans for the program of the 1949 annual meeting. The Program Committee will attempt to have its plans sufficiently advanced to publish a notice about the general character of the program in the April issue of the journal "American Sociological Review."
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- 1949
44. CONTINUITIES IN THE SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY OF OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE: A NOTE.
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Musgrave, P.W.
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CAREER development ,VOCATIONAL guidance ,HUMAN behavior ,COUNSELING ,SOCIAL sciences ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
The article focuses on the November 1967 edition of the Sociological Review, in which there appeared two papers on occupational choice. One was a criticism of this article's author, and the other by sociologists J. Ford and S. Box contained the formulation of a specific theory backed by empirical work. The aim of this article is to answer the main arguments of the critique and thus make possible the synthesis of Ford and Box's work. Their approach to the problem of the choice of occupation is through exchange theory, concentrating on the actual choice situation. They specifically believe that the individual is seen as attempting to realize occupational values in his choice of employment location. For a general theory of occupational choice in their view it is sufficient to take occupational values as given. In one sense this is true, but for many reasons an explanation may be wanted of how these values were learnt. For example, a sociologist of education or a schoolteacher may be concerned with the links between the family or educational institutions and the economy.
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- 1968
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45. A MILDLY SOCIOLOGICAL VIEW OF THE PRESS COVERAGE OF A SOCIOLOGICAL CONVENTION.
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Higbie, Charles E. and Hammond, Phillip E.
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CONFERENCES & conventions ,SOCIOLOGY ,PRESS ,CONFERENCE proceedings (Publications) - Abstract
The article presents a sociological view of the press coverage of a sociological convention. The coverage is based on observations carried out by five newsmen-observers who attended the August 1965 American Sociological Association (ASA) meetings in Chicago, Illinois. The general conclusion of this study of the convention was that the confrontation of the sociologist with the representative of the news media was overwhelmingly inadvertent, disconcerting and only partially successful to either party. In terms of efficiency in social communication, it leaves much to be desired and strongly entices one to prescribe therapy. Few suggestions are made in advance of Florida sessions in order to get sociologist into communication with the Miami Press. It is suggested to issue a handbook in advance of the convention to all members of the ASA and once the convention has started, to maintain a special message board near the newsroom which offers a chance for newsmen to indicate their wish to contact writers of papers. It is also suggested the president of the ASA assemble a small, informal committee which would hold daily news briefings alerting them to persons or topics originating outside or inside the formal program of the convention.
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- 1966
46. BOOKS RECEIVED.
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BOOKS & reading ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This article presents a list of books on sociology. Some of the books included in the list are, "Outreach: Extending Community Service in Urban Areas," by J.J. Banon; "The Coming of Post-Industrial Society," by D. Bell; "Emile Durkheim on Morality and Society," edited by R.N. Bellah; "Man and His Kind: An Introduction to Social Anthropology," by T. Crump; "The Resolution of Conflict and Destructive Processes," by M. Deutch; "Sociology: The Study of Man in Adaptation," by J.T. Doby; "The Economics of Residential Location," by A.W. Evans; "Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution: Early Industrial Capitalism in Three English Towns," by J. Foster; "Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality," by J.H. Gagnon and W. Simon; "Applied Volunteerism in Community Development," by R.E. Hardy and J.G. Cull; "Urbanisation and the Government of Migration: The Inter-Relation of Urban and Rural Life in Zambia," by H. Heisler; and "African Women in Towns: An Aspect of Africa's Social Revolution," by K. Little;
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- 1974
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47. Economic Development of European Socialist Countries.
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Grossman, Gregory
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CONFERENCES & conventions ,SPECIAL events ,ECONOMIC development ,SOCIALIST societies ,SOCIOLOGY ,BALANCE of payments - Abstract
Information about several papers discussed at the conference "Economic Development of European Socialist Countries," which was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria on November 30 to December 6, 1964 is presented. The various reports presented focused on the comprehension of the economic trends and problems in Eastern Europe. Such features and issues considered including balance of payments, labor skills, and technological innovations.
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- 1965
48. THE INTERPLAY OF SOCIAL RESEARCH AND SOCIAL POLICY IN HOUSING.
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Selvin, Hanan C.
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SOCIAL science research ,SOCIAL psychology ,SOCIAL policy ,HOUSING ,HUMAN ecology research ,SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
The article focuses on a symposium which is apparently the first collection of papers focused primarily on research in the social psychology and sociology of housing as this relates to problems encountered by practitioners in housing and community development. The short history of social and psychological research on problems of housing exhibits marked shifts in the foci of interest, shifts which seem partly to result from institutional changes in housing. Because this reform context of research led to a focus on the social consequences of defective housing, little attention was devoted to the connections between architectural design and patterns of social life in housing environments not ordinarily considered substandard. This growing interest in social research may result from changes in institutional patterns of housing that have highlighted the sociological and psychological assumptions involved in housing practices. Large-scale housing, in contrast to the construction of a custom-built house or of a few houses, involves a relatively centralized body of decisions, with compact and highly visible results.
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- 1951
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49. CONTRIBUTED PAPERS.
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RURAL sociology ,VILLAGES ,EMPLOYERS ,SOCIOLOGY ,INDUSTRIALIZATION - Abstract
This article presents a list of papers related to rural sociology. The list includes "A Typology of Singhalese Villages," by G.H.F. Welikala, "Social Structure and Local Initiative in Rural Thailand," by G. Kalshoven, "Legitimization of Directed Change in Pre-industrial Societies," by Ashghar Fathi, "Rural-Urban Migration and Town-Country Relationship in Israel," by A. Berler and Y. Ginsburg, "A Theoretical Model of Cumulative Disagiarization," by Vogislav Duric, "The Changing Patterns of Settlement and Population Distribution in Latin America," by Olen E. Leonard, "Mexican-American Migrant Farm Laborers and Their Employers in Ohio," by B. Perry Joseph and Eldon E. Snyder, "The Rural-Urban Transition in Brazil," by John V.D. Saunders, "The Impact of Industrialization on Geographic Mobility and Economic Decision-Making of a Rural Society in South Asia: A Case Study From Rourkela/Orissa, India," by K.H. Junghans and "A Research Design for the Understanding of Social Change From a Human Ecosystem Perspective."
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- 1968
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50. 1968 PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT.
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SOCIOLOGY ,ANNUAL meetings ,SEMINARS - Abstract
The article presents information on the 63rd Annual Meeting of the ASA, which will be held in Boston, Massachusetts between August 26-29, 1968. The Program Committee, consisting of Philip M. Hauser, William J. Goode, Robin M. Williams, O.D. Duncan, and Gerhard E. Lenski, is planning sessions on the central theme of "On The Gap Between Sociology and Social Policy." The total program will include four subdivisions, Thematic Sessions, Regular Sessions, Seminar Sessions and Luncheon Roundtable Discussions. ASA policy on participation in the program will apply to the three types of sessions but not to the Luncheon Roundtables: each author is limited to a single paper on the program unless he is a joint author of two papers: a sole author or a co-author of one paper may also serve as chairman, discussant or panel member of the same or one other session on the program: a person not listed as author or co-author of a paper may serve as a chairman, a discussant or a panel member of two sessions.
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- 1967
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