Outlines social psychological approach to language and ethnicity which allows understanding processes underlying group members' desires to create distinctive ethnolinguistic varieties. Evaluates Gardner's and Clement's social psychological models of second language acquisition in interethnic contexts; proposes specific social psychological…

Presents comparative study of patterns of language use related to books in three literate communities in southeastern United States, focusing on bedtime story reading. Results show inadequacy of prevalent dichotomy between oral and literate traditions and of unilinear models of child language development and dichotomies between types of cognitive…

Examined age and sociodemographic differentials in food intake and eating patterns in households in a midwestern metropolitan county. Meat was the only food consumed with recommended frequency by all ages. Food intake and eating pattern differences by age remained when effects of income, education, household composition, and gender were…

Examines data from California from the 1850 opening of the prison system to 1970. Finds no evidence to support the hypothesis that, for a given society over time and in the absence of major societal upheaval, the proportion of people subjected to punishment by the state closely approximates a constant. (Author/GC)

Presents the first part of a glossary of new social and political terms. Each entry is followed by a paragraph defining its meaning and origin, and by one or more quotations, where the word appears in unusually extensive contexts. Quotations are taken mostly from the news media. (MES)

Challenges the assumption that high level, educational research is appropriate in developing countries. Using Zaire as an example, the author argues that international funding agencies' institutional needs tend to make them set up western-style research organizations which are incompatible with the needs of the recipient country. (AM)

Reports results of a time-series analysis of daily newspaper circulation trends in South Africa for the years 1958 through 1977; notes that the significant finding is that newspaper circulation has barely kept pace with population growth. (GT)

The relative saliency of social comparison and anxiety reduction as motives for interpersonal affiliation was examined in nearly 100 Chicano and Anglo adolescents. The experiment's failure to replicate the findings of Darley and Aronson was probably due to lack of functional equivalence across cultural groups. (Author/GC)

Considers how the changed ecological conditions confronting human societies challenge sociology. Concludes that sociology stands in need of a fundamental alteration in its disciplinary paradigm. Suggests a 'New Ecological Paradigm' which may better serve the field of sociology in light of the current recognition of ecological realities. (Author/DB)

Describes a study which attempts to link micro and macro approaches in the study of societal multilingualism while introducing a diachronic perspective. The sociolinguistic profile of Senegal is used as a point of departure followed by an outline of sociohistorical factors which contributed to language use. Discusses the social implications of…

In this paper, data from the Catholic Americans study is used to test the hypothesis that there is a powerful ethnic factor in intermarriage and thus that considerable intermarriage will lead only to the emergence of new ethnic boundaries enclosing culturally and socially similar nationality groups. (Author/EB)

The changing public attitude towards "total wellness" creates pressure for health educators to desert the basic problem-oriented research programs in favor of nebulous, unmeasurable, but conspicuous targets such as "holistic health." (LH)

A study of the mythological elements attendant upon professional baseball reveals the complex social and cultural beliefs contributing to the current American world view. (LH)

Reviews past research which demonstrates that neither Black corporate pride nor Black ethnicity is a recent phenomenon in American life. Rather, Black ethnogenesis was inspired by the same structural conditions as the development of ethnic identity among White ethnic populations. (Author/KC)

This paper discusses a previously unidentified turn-allocation technique - third person reference. When such a reference is used, participants are orienting to the solution of a practical organizational problem: how to keep at least one of their number from talking, while preserving the right of all others to talk. (Author/CFM)