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The article discusses issues related to subjective powerlessness in the U.S. The paper focuses on changes since 1952 in citizen efficacy or feelings of control over government for various sub-groups in the U.S. population such as blacks, blue collar workers, Southerners, Jews, young and old people. As with most issues in the study of social change, there is widespread disagreement on trends in citizen efficacy for industrial societies such as the U.S. Most theory predicts trends in objective powerlessness, rather than subjective powerlessness, although it is possible that trends in objective powerlessness do not match trends in subjective powerlessness. Within the U.S. at each point of observation, powerlessness does not vary much by stratum, except when education and race are used as indicators. And within the white population, some of the differences are heavily explained by educational differentials. It therefore seems fair to conclude that white subordinate interest groups are not oriented toward government as a result of what would seem to be objective powerlessness but more on the basis of their educational achievement.

The purpose of this article is to explore the role of women in one's culture, in academia, in a few professions, and in the field of sociology. There are suggestions in some of the sociological literature that women are in a difficult and sometimes unspecified role. Age and Sex in the Social Structure of the United States, analyzes the various avenues of expression available to women domesticity; glamour; and good companion, as expressed in such pursuits as humanitarianism and club activities. Much literature, academic and otherwise, has been devoted to a survey of the opportunities and joys of the domestic role. The foregoing material can serve both as an indictment of, and a cause for, restricting the role of academic women, as well as an accounting of the reasons why women withdraw from the professions. To label the interplay of variables as discrimination is not wholly accurate, but neither can the material be taken as cause for maintaining the status quo. Research continue to be faced with the facts that good intellectual ability among women is being wasted as a social and national resource and that lack of clarity about the female role may be productive of personal unhappiness.

This article discusses the research about the trends in social education in the U.S. The February 1943 issue of this journal presented analyses of research bearing on this field. A mounting belief in the importance of direct participation in school and community living as planned phases of education for democratic citizenship continues to be reflected in educational literature. Chapters six and seven were planned to cover important lines of research in teaching the social studies. All of the studies reviewed might have been included in single, logically organized chapter, but for purposes of emphasis it seems better to treat separately research bearing on the topics included in the seventh chapter.