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The note of the editor of the periodical "Social Force," in the June issue, pertaining to changing requirements for the doctor's degree arises in part out of a trend that is apparent in the social sciences. The suggestion for the granting of the Ph.D. in social science rather than in a single discipline is evidence of the recognition that integration of the social sciences is not only a necessity, but a desirable end to be achieved. The note by scholar Howard W. Odum bears primarily upon integration for candidates who are seeking advanced degrees. The need for integration of the subject matter and points of view of the social sciences for undergraduate students is also worthy of consideration. That there is too little attempt at such integration in most departmentalized college and normal school curricula will hardly bear disputing. This present paper is concerned solely with the description of what the writer believes is a significant and interesting attempt to integrate the social studies at the School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. The experiment to be described grew out of the fact that at its summer sessions the School of Citizenship and Public Affairs aimed to develop a curriculum that would be of value to secondary school teachers, chiefly from New York state teachers for the most part who had been away from academic work for varying numbers of years, but who wished to become familiar with recent trends in the social sciences.

The article focuses on the establishment of the treaty Pacto Roerich on April 15, 1935 in the U.S. It relates that the pact was approved by prominent dignitaries and 21 nations with the aim to protect scientific and artistic institutions, as well as historical structures during the war and human calamities. Moreover, it adds that the pact was the brainchild of artist, author and archeologist Nicholas Roerich. Further, it discusses the three themes that signified the establishment of the pact that reflects idealism, egocentrism, and anguish in American history .

A common assumption by clergymen and other religious leaders is that religious beliefs influence moral values. Among many sectarian fundamentalist congregations, believing in an ascetic moral code and living up to it is one of the tests of doctrine and behavior that are among the membership requirements. Details of the operational definitions of what constitutes "correct beliefs" vary somewhat from one group to another, as do those of "morality," "holiness," and "righteous behavior." These taboos are a part of the antimodel for the role of fundamentalist, the pattern of behavior to be avoided. Fundamentalism, however, is a diverse phenomenon. It overlaps with other theologically conservative perspectives and positions in Protestantism. A survey of 1,367 students in a state university, three church-related liberal arts colleges, and three Bible colleges included theological self-classifications and opinions on numerous types of behavior that have been identified as immoral, sinful, or unchristian by one or many Christian groups of the past or present.

The article examines the position of literature in the schools of the Soviet Union. The Communist Party has always regarded literature as a social weapon, a powerful influence on the course of public affairs. All students study the same basic literary works under the government's officially stated goal of preservation of culture. Furthermore, the study of literature, especially foreign literature, is viewed as a way of realizing the communist goal of establishing a cultured, classless society that extends beyond Soviet borders. Finally, literature, which has always been received enthusiastically in Russia, is studied in the schools as an enriching and humanizing experience for the individual.

It is hoped that the principles and procedures discussed in this monograph will be useful to those who, like the author, are concerned with carrying out more thorough-going attitude surveys, and feel dissatisfied with the current state of the art. The focus of concern has been the validity of attitude measurement as it is carried out in practice. In the development of procedures for attitude scaling by far the greatest attention has been, and still is, devoted to the measurement of affective magnitude. The now-classical methods for scaling attitudes represented an important step forward for social science at the time of their development. And for many research purposes these standard techniques are still what is required. At this point a condensed statement of what it is felt a thoroughgoing survey of attitude structure ideally ought to be able to achieve may be useful, even though its elucidation will require the entire text. The university-based social psychologists, who have been most concerned with the analysis of attitude structure, on the other hand, have studied mainly the educated elite, for the most part their own undergraduates. Contributions from these psychologists fall broadly into two camps according to whether they have been primarily concerned with experimentation or measurement.

Nationality is the greatest single social variable common to the rural people of the Midwest. A certain degree of assimilation has taken place but a few major culture traits together with countless minor ones tend to persist even after three or four generations removed from the old country. The locus of this study using the culture-type classification is the social process rather than the geographical setting. The purpose of this phase of the series of studies conducted by the writer was to analyze the social process within specific nationality groups and between certain groups who have lived in close proximity for a period varying from 90 to 40 years. The three predominant groups are the Norwegians, the Polish, and the Welsh. It was found that the original values and idea systems of the particular nationality groups have been greatly modified. These modifications are ‘changes of the times’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the meeting of the meeting Executive Committee of the American Economic Association in New York, April 11, 1925, Professor Frederick S. Deibler, of Northwestern University, was elected Secretary and Treasurer. The recent report of the Social Science Research Council states progress in the effort to obtain support "for the annual preparation and publication of an index and digest of all state legislation by tile U.S. government through a congressional appropriation." It is apparently not generally known that such an index has been prepared in the Library of Congress since 1917. Since this has been done as an incidental part of the work of the Legislative Reference Service, it has not been feasible to keep it up to date, and it is possibly not as extensive as is desired by interested organizations outside of the government service. It is, however, comprehensive and is probably as detailed as is practical considering the mass of material. The index has been prepared from a legislative-reference rather than a technical-legal standpoint, and is therefore much more adapted to the needs of the research student than are the volume indexes.

This article report some experimental findings supporting the proposition that the educational level of parents and their economic station are meaningfully related to the aesthetic preferences of their adolescent children. In recent years there has grown up a substantial literature devoted to a study of class differences in the United States, a literature greatly transcending simple economic considerations and devoted to an examination of psychological and ideological differences. The test instrument employed in this study was the Knapp Tartan Test, consisting of 30 reproductions of selected Scottish tartans. In terms of their hypothesis, researchers predicted that middle class adolescents should show a greater preference for complex tartan designs of somber color while our lower class adolescents should show greater preference for simple open designs incorporating saturated color and bold contrast. The test was administered in five different periods of the day to groups of students averaging 10 at each period.

The acceptance of cultural relativism is a necessary pre-condition for any attempt at a meaningful interpretation of different culture patterns, the understanding of which is based on seeing them in the context of gestalt phenomena or cultural wholeness. The application of this same principle, cultural relativism, to economic concepts becomes necessary, as soon as they are utilized to interpret the cone tents of cultures, as for instance when consumption is made to be a yard-stick for measuring poverty or prosperity. The eagerness of African women to learn sewing and stitching of elaborate flower designs on table covers, mufflers and other objects which are not generally in daily use among peasants south of the Sahara, meets the opposite trend more than half way. Touching as this enthusiasm may be, it yet speaks of the desire to imitate, rather, than to apply genuine creativeness to the daily tasks of life. The adoption of new techniques and crafts certainly deserves all possible encouragement, if it is somehow connected with necessity and practicability, or reasonably linked to traditional values.

In the light of a resurgent Interest in religio-ethnic background, the usage of the concepts of identity and Identification was examined. Identity was viewed both as a higher-reorder concept (i.e., an organizing referent) and as a lower-order concept including several specific facets (social identity,. personal Identity, ego identity, and self-conception), whose empirical referents with respect to religio-ethnicity were suggested. Identification was conceived of both as a process and a product, with empirical research of the later in respect to religio-ethnicity operating on behavioral and attitudinal levels. Some Implications for future research were suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents information about the issue "Current Trends in Libraries of the United States Government," of the journal Library Trends. This issue is edited by Verner W. Clapp, Chief Assistant Librarian of Congress, and Scott Adams, Librarian of the National Institutes of Health. They introduce the subject by pointing out the similarities and dissimilarities of the large number of federal libraries and list the following trends which are noticeable in federal libraries: recognition of the essential role of libraries in government; tendency to form national systems due to decentralization of government agencies; experimentation due chiefly to lack of manpower; a national outlook.

The article focuses on the recruiting groups in the U.S. Institute and Universities. In addition to teachers of social science in the colleges and universities, a large number of socially-minded individuals and students of social problems living in the several states and working toward the same general end as college and university leaders. They are newspaper editors, directors of social agencies, men in public office, ministers, school officials in the larger systems, librarians, members of research committees, writers. Much material to be gathered from local areas can be best had by them. Its presentation to the public will be more valuable if organized and written by local people.

The article focuses on the Social Science teachers in the U.S. Institutes and Universities. The Institute must also learn much from other institutions and from members of the faculties and social agencies interested in study and research throughout the South. In order that these things may come about and that there may be better correlation and more momentum, it is important that there be held each year an informal conference of teachers of social science in the South. The meeting this year will be held at the Carolina Inn at the University of North Carolina and, in addition to representatives from all of the state universities in the southeastern states will have many representatives from other institutions that are interested particularly in the social sciences.