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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.

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.

This article presents information on the "Journal of Educational Sociology." Those who attempt to assess the status of educational sociology invariably refer to the quality of its literature as an indicator of the field's level of development. The only journal devoted exclusively to the field as such and has published continuously since its founding. For more than three decades, it has been a vehicle for the expression of thinking in educational sociology. The first number of the journal appeared in September 1927. A statistical technique for obtaining descriptive data on content variables, content analysis has proved adaptable for assessing the development of various scholarly and scientific fields, including the literature of theory and research in both the natural and the social sciences. Questionnaires and interviews as sole collection devices were used to a significantly greater extent in 1930-31 and 1940-41 than they were in the last two time periods. The practice of using a combination of methods occurred significantly more often in 1950-51 and 1960-61 than in the earlier two periods.

The article presents instructions for contributors to the journal "Sociology." Contributions should be typed on quarto sheets, using double spacing, on one side of each page. Authors should submit the top copy and retain a carbon copy. The pages should be numbered serially. The title of the article, the author's name, and a biographical note on him should be typed on a flysheet which can readily be detached from the body of the article. A contributor should also supply an abstract of 100-200 words summarizing the article in such a way that the abstract can be read independently. Contributors are especially requested to ensure that all necessary details are provided in their references. Titles of journals and monograph series may be abbreviated according to the system used in International Bibliography of the Social Sciences. The notes should be typed on a separate page or pages from the text, as should the bibliography. Figures and maps should be drawn in opaque black ink on Bristol board, tracing film, or graph paper with faint blue ruling.

The article presents information about several journals. The International Journal of Psychology, which started publication in 1966, is devoted to cross-cultural comparative and co-operative research in general, genetic and social psychology throughout the world. It reports on comparative field or laboratory studies, inquiries, experimental replications, critical reviews, theoretical or methodological papers in relationship with cross-cultural research, projects or cross-cultural studies are also published. Sociological Studies will be international in scope and will offer a professional, coordinated and disciplined review and appraisal of research trends in different areas of sociology. Each issue will consist of a collection of papers integrated around a particular theme. In particular it is hoped to provide an avenue for the publication of longer working papers which are at present too extensive for most journals. Sociological Studies will be published annually in English by the Cambridge University Press. The first issue will appear in 1968.

The article examines the flow of messages between the accounting system and other knowledge systems, in particular the information flow between the academic and applied accounting networks. The accounting knowledge system falls within the social science knowledge system and is made up of three subsystems: an academic, a management accounting, and a professional system. This paper is based on the analysis of citations in seventeen accounting journals for the period January 1968 to December 1969. Accounting lies within the social science knowledge system. In this study, the number of messages passed to accounting from the other social sciences and the number of messages passed to accounting from nonsocial science knowledge systems is recorded with a column tabulating the proportion of messages transmitted to accounting from other knowledge systems. The proportion of messages passed to accounting from the other social sciences is similar to the proportion passed to sociology and politics and is greater than the proportion of messages passed to psychology and economics.

This article reports that "Policy Analysis, Systems Approaches, and Decision Making," a new quarterly journal, will appear in 1970 under the editorship of E.S. Quade. According to its prospectus, it will provide a forum for the developing interest in the application of structured rationality, systematic analysis, and interdisciplinary knowledge to problems of public policy. It will include applied studies analyzing specific problem areas, theoretic studies on the methods, content, and problems of the policy sciences, and papers dealing with the policy sciences as a subject for research and teaching and as a new profession. It will pay close attention to the application of policy science to real decisions, aiming to improve the outcome as well as the state-of-the-art and to attract the participation and respect of practitioners. Case histories and experiences will be among the subjects of the journal's scrutiny. Another important service the proposed journal will provide through its book review department is an annotated bibliography and comprehensive review of new literature in the policy sciences.

The term "relevant" within the context of a small-groups course in sociology seemed to mean participating in ongoing groups and observing and gathering data on small groups. Teaching by having students engage in research has also been advocated by articles in "The American Sociologist." The research approach is especially applicable for courses in small groups. But there are too many difficulties in having students carry out research to make research the central feature of a course. In most cases students would not be sufficiently knowledgeable to design and conduct meaningful small-group experiments. This causes problems too difficult for an untrained instructor to handle. The second reason was that while attracted to the learn-by-doing element in such a course, it was equally important to devote class time to covering theoretical concepts, research techniques, and general substantive material. According to the author, the ideal course would expose students to diverse theoretical approaches to small groups while meeting their demand for relevance in the form of group participation and involvement in research.

This article presents information on the First World Congress for Rural Sociology, which took place in August 1964 at Dijon. The number of papers, submitted to this Congress, was far greater than that received for the Third Congress of the European Society for Rural Sociology in 1962 at St. Wolfgang. Therefore it is impossible to publish, the complete written material. Full texts are included of main papers and papers of prepared discussants only. Of the regional papers the summaries are given. The discussions are reported in the languages used by the participants during the meetings. Some of the regional papers will appear in full text in later issues of this Journal, others will be submitted to other journals in the field. Of the regional papers the summaries are given. The discussions are reported in the languages used by the participants during the meetings.

In the present paper the assessment of the current level of research in the sociology of education is undertaken through a systematic analysis of a sample of published research papers. Three journals were judged to represent the largest number and the most rigorously reported of researches in the sociology of education during the period 1940-1950. The field of sociology of education itself has only one journal, the "Journal of Educational Sociology". Full evaluation of the production in any science demands some sort of assessment of the people making the contributions. Is the field of research in the sociology of education dominated by a few or are the contributions widely dispersed? What are the professional qualifications of the researchers? Another data concerning the authors which is available in the journals and in the direction of the professional organizations is the place of employment. The vast majority of authors were found to be associated with colleges and universities. The rest were distributed among public schools and state agencies.

This article presents information about several research papers published in different journals, related to the field of sociology. In November 1910 issue of the "American Journal of Sociology," the commendable tendency towards inquiry into concrete civic problems noticeable in recent American research is illustrated in a study of a special housing question in Chicago-the crowding of poor families into furnished rooms. The paper is by two women students of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy-S.P. Breckinridge and Edith Abbots. They describe the peculiar feature in this development of overcrowding-namely, the degradation of the commodious houses which have survived from an earlier period, houses unsuited to tenement purposes, and the ways in which they are made to serve the need, of a continually shifting population. The November issue of the journal "Eugenics Review" is entirely devoted to a discussion of the Royal Commission's Reports on the Poor Law in relation to eugenic principles and policy.

The article presents the proceedings of the Ohio Valley Sociological Society Council Meeting, Held on Thursday, April 27, 1971, held at the Cleveland-Sheraton Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio. Resolutions concerning deceased members of the Ohio Valley Sociological Society should be published as obituaries in the Sociological Focus. Physician Olmstead reported for the publications committee. He indicated that the publications committee was currently seeking a new editor for Sociological Focus. He also reported on the number of papers submitted in the undergraduate and graduate paper competition. At the undergraduate level the committee has selected two CO. President Useem then introduced the topic of convention development It was moved that the principle of establishing an office of executive secretary, and/or business manager (which would be ad hoc for now) be approved. Such an executive secretary and/or business manager will work on the managerial issues of the society. The resolution was passed. The executive committee will designate an acting executive secretary.

The article presents the proceedings of the annual business meeting of the Ohio valley sociological society. Don Olmstead reported for the Publications Committee. He reported on the search for a new editor, the maintenance of the publication, Sociological Focus at the University of Akron, and the exploration of future publication possibilities between the OVSS and other societies. Whereas the innovative and sematic scheme of the program produced interesting and provocative papers and discussions. Be it resolved that Chairman Marvin Olson and Program Committee members Elizabeth Mullins, and John Scanzoni be recognized for their efforts and that their universities be so informed. Whereas, the three year term of office for the following officers of the Ohio Valley Sociological Society has expired, be it resolved that the new officers and membership recognize the extraordinary efforts and contributions made by: Shailer Thomas, Secretary; Charles Westie, Treasurer; John Lindquist Editor of Sociological Focus.

The article focuses on response of the journal "Social Work" to contributions it received for its January 1958 issue. After the first period of agonizing appraisal of the half-dozen manuscripts bequeathed to it, the flow of manuscripts has been steady and increasing and, better still the quality higher. Social work is in one of its critical perhaps the most critical, phase of reorganization and assimilation of new materials. The practitioner, the teacher, the administrator of the field are moving rather jerkily from the familiar ground of special field and technical outlook to other angles of vision which include more of the humanities and much of social science. While making good resolutions, perhaps one should remind oneself of the small as well as large responsibilities of those who write for a professional readership, just as one has to remind even graduate students to write on one side of the theme paper and mind their references. Good papers like good sermons can almost always be shorten--if one takes the time and trouble to do so.

This section presents several research and publications on theology and other topics on social sciences. Anita Yourlich, assistant professor of sociology at Seattle University has just completed a research project on aged institutionalized women. She has recenty written the text, Dynamics of Social Interaction and articles on Catholic nurses' conflicting attitudes. The Catholic Mind magazine (December 1955) reprinted Donald J. Thorman's address on "The Catholic Press and Catholic Social Action" given at the National Catholic Social Action Conference in Cleveland on September 8, 1955. In time for the twenty-fifth anniversary commemorations of Quadragesimo anno, the Catechetical Guild is publishing the Pope Talks About Labor Relations, a sixty-three page, fifteen cent booklet written by Father William J. Smith, of the St. Peter's Institute of Industrial Relations in Jersey City. Doctor Gladys Sellew, chairman of the sociology department at Rosary College, published with Sister M. Ethelreda Ebel, the third edition of their book History of Nursing. The book Demographical-sociological Research at Loyola College, Baltimore: Basic Ecclesiastical Statistics for Latin America, 1954 compiled by Thomas K. Burch and Donald J. Burton and edited by William J. Gibbons, reports on a portion of the statistical work done at Loyola College under a grant for demographic research from the Population Council Inc.

This article presents information about several papers published in different journals related to the field of sociology. In second volume of the journal "Eugenics Review," Dr. David Star Jordan, in an article on war and manhood, discusses the biological significance of the dictum of Sophocles, war does not of choice destroy bad men, but good men ever. He quotes from the historians, notably Dr. Otto Seeck, in support of the contention that the civilization of the old world were destroyed, not by luxury or over culture, but by militarism, the reversed selection of war. The June 1910 issue of the journal "La Science Sociale" contains the text of an address delivered on May 15 last at the Ecole des Roches by M. Paul de Rousiers on the occasion of the unveiling of bust of the late Edmond Demolins. It is an interesting appreciation of Demolins' work and of the principles which he wished to embodied in the Ecole des Roches. The July issue of the same journal is devoted entirely to the Ecole des Roches. It contains a record of the school's ten years' work, reports of the speeches delivered at the unveiling of the Demolins' bust.

This paper presents the methods and findings of an analysis of the first 14 volumes of the journal, "Rural Sociology," from 1936 to 1949. The assumption was made that the articles published in the journal broadly reflect the research interests in rural sociology sufficiently well and that answers could be formulated for questions such as what are the major topics of research interests in rural sociology, or where are persons undertaking rural research located. The articles in the sections entitled General Articles, Notes, Bulletin Reviews, and Book Reviews were classified according to content under one or more of 280 topics. Due to the diversity of the content and the complexities involved in classification, the section, News Notes and Announcements, was not included in the analysis. Percentages of topics for each section of the journal were calculated. Authors contributed to the respective sections of the journal from various states, and the sections with the highest proportion of contributors were the Northeastern and North Central states with a particularly heavy concentration in New York State and Washington DC.

Presents an introductory statement to the April 1964 issue of "The Journal of Social Issues."

The article reports on certain research papers on social sciences that are published in various periodicals. Social scientist Jesse F. Steiner presents in the November-December "Journal of Applied Sociology" a further aspect of the community problems he has been recently attacking in these columns. His "Critique of the Community Movement" brings three indictments against the modern conception of social control and the host of welfare organizations it has brought into being. In the first place, situations are not adequately diagnosed: assuming after a glance at the more obvious symptoms that all needs are alike one hastily recommends a favorite plan or program as of universal application. Harry B. Ansted in the "Journal of Applied Sociology" describes "The Auto-Camp Community" of Los Angeles, California, type of a new social institution. Camps have grown up largely to meet housing needs, and the problems they raise are those of municipal or private management, sanitary location, proper charges, and restrictions on length of stay.

This article presents an overview of the activities of the Sociological Society as reported by its Council for the year 1912. Whilst the past year has not been noticeable for any unusual event or development, the Sociological Society during 1912 was active in various directions. The average number of meetings was fully maintained, and as several of the questions taken up were of immediate public interest, the discussions were widely extended beyond the borders of the Society. The Society closed the year with a deficit of £34 on the twelve months' working. The deficit shown on the Balance Sheet for 1912, can be explained by the existence of a number of outstanding arrears of subscriptions; secondly, by the larger expenses incurred in connection with some of the meetings, by more extensive advertising and the supply of the lantern for several lectures. The position is that, on the present establishment, the Society might easily pay its way if an accession to the membership of, say, one hundred, could be secured. Measures for the achievement of this object are being undertaken, and it is hoped that they may have the desired result.

The article presents information about several papers about sociology that appeared in various journals. The paper "Civics, the Focal Point of the Curriculum," by James Colletti, appeared in the May 1925 issue of the journal "Historical Outlook." The paper "An Indian Sociologist Looks at the World," by S.N. Pherwani, appeared in the July 1925 issue of the journal "Sociological Review." The paper "Prohibition and Prosperity," by Thomas N. Carver, appeared in the September-November 1925 issue of the journal "North American Review." The paper "This Nordic Nonsense," by Franz Boas, appeared in the October 1925 issue of the journal "Forum." The paper "Towards a Philosophy of Labor," by J.W. Scott, appeared in the July 1925 issue of the "Hibbert Journal." The paper "Modern Marriage and Monogamy," by Sybil Neville-Rolfe, appeared in the July 1925 issue of the journal "Eugenics Review." The paper "Community Relationships," by J.B. Gwin, appeared in the September 1925 issue of the journal "Social Forces." The paper "Social Welfare in Country Life," by A.E. Howell, appeared in the October 1925 issue of the journal "Rural America."

This article presents information related to the bibliography "Bibliographies in the Social Sciences: A Selected Inventory of Periodical Publications." This two-part volume includes a summary of the papers submitted to the Committee of Experts. The second part is devoted to documentation services in the field of the social sciences and a detailed inventory of the principal services. Facsimiles of some of the more important documentation services are included. The material is well indexed including an alphabetical list of services rendered and publishing institutions.

During 1952 the American Sociological Society's Committee for Liaison with the National Council for the Social Studies carried on considerable correspondence with respect to the best ways to carry out its assignment. Also numerous contacts were made with Julian C. Aldrich, President of the National Council for the Social Studies, and John Haefner, vice-president and program chairman for the National Council for the Social Studies. After this consultation the committee prepared by correspondence, a program to be held at the American Sociological Society's meeting in Atlantic City, September 4, 1952, and another to be given at the annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies at Dallas, Texas, November 28, 1952. It is believed that these foregoing program are a step in the direction of good liaison between the two organizations. It was also suggested that certain significant reports of interest to members of both societies be printed in the American Sociological Review and Social Education, and that other special reports be published in special monographs. It was recommended that the Review mention articles that might be of importance to secondary school teachers.

The article presents a list of periodicals received by the Social Science Documentation Center of UNESCO, published in the February 1, 1974 issue of "International Social Science Journal." The first volume of "Affari Sociali Internazionali," is edited by Antonio Lombardo and is published quarterly by Franco Angeli Editore. The main interest of this journal is to bring to open Italy's social problems like internal and external emigration, seen from its historic aspect and from the viewpoint of an international perspective. "African Research and Documentation," is edited by Marion Johnson. It is the Journal of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom and the Standing Commission on Library Materials on Africa. The first volume of "Asia Research Bulletin," is edited by John Drysdale and is published monthly by the Asia Research Ltd. The Bulletin offers systematic coverage of all important political, economic and social developments in East and South-East Asia." The first volume of "Women's Studies," is edited by Wendy Martin. It is a semi-annual publication providing a forum for studies on women in the fields of sociology, law, political sciences, economics, arts and sciences. It also publishes poetry, short fiction, film and book reviews.

The article presents abstracts of papers about social sciences published in various periodicals. Titles include "Community Social Indicators: From Analytical Models to Policy Applications" by Terry Nichols Clark, "Keeping Informed: What the Radical Economists Are Saying" by Martin Bronfenbrenner, and "A Dynamic Approach to Complex Systems" by Eric Brookbanks.

The article announces that "The Journal of Social Sciences" will discontinue publishing the Supplement Series of the Lewin Memorial Award Addresses. In the past, presidential address has been distributed to Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) members through a direct mailing of stencilled or multilithed copy. However, these copies tend to get lost in the mess of papers and reprints in personal files. Therefore, the journal will request of each president that his annual address be published in the journal. Events in the field of television in the United States are moving ahead rapidly due to the ferment created by government agencies through its regulatory groups and educational programs. The present collection by Lotte Bailyn will contribute to the discussion of social uses of television.

This article presents the report of the editor of the American Sociology Review (ASR), a scholarly journal published by the American Sociological Association, as of August 1972. Transfer of an editorship is a long and complex process, from the time an editor-designate accepts appointment until the final issue of a past editor is published. The process actually is even more protracted, for it begins with nominating procedures long before appointment of an editor and extends beyond publication of that last issue, since past-editors must handle correspondence related to the journal long after their terms and are constantly called upon by fledgling editors for counsel and reinforcement. For us, the process began when I accepted appointment in December 1970. I was fortunate to have the benefit of extensive counsel from my predecessor, Karl Schuessler, and others in his office and in the Executive Office of the American Sociological Association (ASA). A staff consisting of Deputy Director Lois B. DeFleur, Office Manager and Secretary Sherry Bye, and Copy Editor Loretta Anawalt was selected, nine new associate editors accepted appointment, and we began evaluation of manuscripts on July 1, 1971. Editing and publishing ASR involves an unbelievable number of people--moving paper, reading and making judgments on many matters, corresponding, funding, coordinating, proof reading and more judgments, an all the technicalities involved in the printing and publication process.

Presents a list of books about economics received by the periodical "Economica."

The article presents documents and publications of the United Nations and Specialized Agencies that appeared in the 1971 issue of the periodical "International Social Science Journal." On the issue of population, Economic Commission for Africa, presents population trends in African countries, in the Report of the Working Group on Fertility Studies and Evaluation of Population Programmes, at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from January 26-30, 1970. "World Health Statistics Report" vol. 23, also presents health related issues. "Report of the Second World Food Congress," vol. 1, presents population forecasts, probable economic growth, development of food production and forms of consumption. "Production Year Book, 1969," vol. 23, reports on annual statistical data on all important aspects of food and agriculture. Labor conditions, employment, professional relations is highlighted in "Bibliography on Women Workers: 1861-1965."

The book review is an important form of professional communication, if for no reason other than the scholar's difficulty in coping with the knowledge explosion. About one-third of the pages of the journals "American Sociological Review," the "American Journal of Sociology," and "Social Forces," were devoted to book reviews in 1968. Despite such prominence, social scientists pay little attention to the substantive or organizational aspects of book reviewing. Recognizing its importance, this article discusses book reviewing in the social sciences and the editorial procedures for administering the book-review section of a journal. The article is based upon a review of relevant literature in the humanities, information sciences, and natural and social sciences, as upon the responses to a twelve-item, open-ended questionnaire sent to current and recent review editors of the three aforementioned journals. The whole apparatus of book reviewing functions more on the basis of tradition and imitation than on the strength of contemporary agreements. It would appear that book reviews are the second class citizens of scientific literature. This can be seen in the difficulties editors have in getting members of the discipline to accept and complete book reviewing assignments, and it is evident in the fact that few reviews offer more than a simple abstract of the book. One is struck by the seeming lack of normative structure and social organization surrounding the entire reviewing process.

The article traces the history of the periodical "The Sociological Review." It informs that the Council of the Sociological Society resolved, in 1907, to publish a Quarterly Review instead of the Annual Sociological Papers in which the transactions of the first three years were printed, a guarantee fund was raised among the members, a number of whom showed their interest in the enterprise by promising contributions on a liberal scale. It adds that the guarantees thus secured were for a term of three years, which came to an end with the number for October 1910. The need for a journal such as the Sociological Review becomes every year more evident. All students of contemporary movements and affairs recognise that there is an ever enlarging range of problems demanding, not partisan advocacy, but scientific survey and analysis, and that the discussion of such problems--social and economic, racial and international, historic and biological, civic and educational--can best be conducted upon a platform.

For the past seven months, "International Research Associates," in collaboration with the New York "Herald Tribune," has been engaged in producing the "World Poll," a syndicated weekly feature appearing in some twenty-five newspapers here, and an additional twenty-five in nineteen other countries around the world. The survey findings each week are based on polls conducted in from ten to fifteen countries. The individual problems relating to putting out a feature of this type for public consumption can be broken down into five major areas. Problems vis-a-vis the client newspapers. Here the issues center on such sensitive areas as the announced politics of the subscribing paper, the interests of advertisers, the editor's convictions about audience interest, timing, and newsworthiness. Problems vis-a-vis the readers, such as the relationship of text to figures and other pictorial materials, the use of individual comments, the analysis of sub-groups, the length of the column, the sequence in which the countries are presented, the completeness of the reported tabulations, provision of local contexts and coverage.

The article presents comments on the work of sociologists Irwin Deutscher. The publications of the sociologist Richard T. LaPiere in the late 1920's and early 1930's, though it probably played a part in the emergence of the evasive tactic known as the operational definition, did nothing to discourage the development of the paper and pencil test as the primary instrument of social investigation. Then and subsequently, contemporary sociologists and certain questioning of methodological validity ignored the findings of that study regarded as the views of a reactionary sociologist opposed to the application of truly scientific methods to the study of society. By ignoring certain findings and by proceeding on the assumption that verbal responses of subjects to symbolic situations are valid indicators of social conduct, sociological research has been able to profess a scientific objectivity and to accumulate a vast body of data about man and his affairs through the comparatively easy method of asking questions and then running responses through complex and impressive statistical analyses.

The article presents information regarding the change of guard in the editorial board. Editorial staffs are all indebted to the former editor, Meyer F. Nimkoff and his staff, for the way in which they have kept the journal both interesting and professionally useful. The present editorial staff includes some who have carried over, as well as several new appointments, and the present editor is appreciative of them both. It is especially gratifying that Nimkoff has consented to continue serving, this time as a member of the editorial board. With the exceptions of its regular features, this issue of the journal "Marriage and Family Living," is devoted entirely to reporting the papers and discussions from a special "Family Research Conference" held in Chicago, during October 31 to November 3, 1956. This conference was conducted under the joint sponsorship of the Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund and the National Council on Family Relations. Conference papers were distributed in advance so that participants could study them ahead of time and come prepared to move beyond the formal presentations and on to points requiring further exploration.

The article presents a pioneer study of contemporary significance in electoral behavior in reference to a paper on this issue written by Roscoe C. Martin. As far as taste is concerned there was a bias at the outset for selecting an article representing a contribution to an empirically based political science. Martin's piece certainly meets that standard. The article is an early attempt to investigate in a systematic, quantitative fashion a problem that has received considerable attention in more recent volumes of the Quarterly and other scholarly journals, the question of voting behavior in state and local elections. Martin's report of the socioeconomic and institutional factors associated with an Austin municipal election in 1933 precedes the major voting studies conducted on the national, state, and local levels by several years, even decades. But it is not enough merely to say that this study broke new ground in an era when political scientists generally took only marginal interest in studying electoral data; it is also worth remarking that Martin did so in a manner that is still significant for contemporary students of voting.

List books and related resources on rural sociology, which appeared in the June 1971 issue of "Rural Sociology."

The article presents the summary of the article "If The Social Scientist Is to Be More Than a Mere Technician," by Muzafer Sherif that was published in January 1968 issue of the periodical "Journal of Social Issues." The author emphasizes that it is necessary that the work of the social scientist cross disciplines and search its historic past if there is to be an examination of persistent and recurrent social psychological problems, which go beyond mere technicianship.

The article announces the publication of several journals related to sociology. Catalyst, a new interdisciplinary journal, encourages critical examination of the social sciences and the exploration of possible alternatives within them. The International Migration Review recently began publication of its new series, sponsored by the Center for Migration Studies. The Review presents the latest findings and debates of social and behavioral scientists. Special attention is focused upon the problems of intra-national and international migrants; the historical evolution of migrant groups; the demographic profiles of such groups; and legislative actions relevant to people entering and adjusting to new socio-geographic areas. The aim of the journal is the eventual solution of migrants' problems. through better understanding between newcomers and natives. The Kansas Journal of Sociology offers a means of communication for students in the various disciplines of inquiry concerned with human society.

The article focuses on the fact that the Jewish Journal of Sociology has been brought into being in order to provide an international vehicle for serious writing on Jewish social affairs. There are few opportunities at present for publishing academic and scientific papers on the sociology of the Jews; the purpose of the Journal is to expand the opportunities and to make it possible for good work to appear in print which might otherwise have lain unpublished. The title of the Journal cannot adequately express its scope. The word `Jewish' refers to the nature of the subject-matter, not to the authorship of the papers, and defines a field of study. English is the language most widely spoken among Jews at the present, and for the time being, propose to use it as the main language of the Journal.