This document is a compendium of reports from five countries on their "Sport for All" programs. The five countries are the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. It is stated that the basic idea of "Sport for All" is of a sociocultural nature: it regards sport and its functions as…

Pluralistic diagnosis is a set of developed procedures which attempts to take sociocultural background into account in assessing the meaning of scores on standardized measures. This approach has developed as an outgrowth of findings from an epidemiology of mental retardation which have been conducted in the city of Riverside, California, over the…

A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE ARTS IN THE CONTEMPORARY UNIVERSITY PRECEDES DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIFIC ADULT PROGRAM PROTOTYPES. THE CURRENT PLACE OF THE ARTS OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY INCLUDES RECENT TRENDS IN ART INSTITUTIONS, GOVERNMENT, BUSINESS, FOUNDATIONS, ARTS COUNCILS, PUBLICATIONS, AND EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION. ISSUES AND PROBLEMS CONCERNING THE…

Late-life marriages are receiving more attention today. However, demographic statistics reveal no upsurge in gerontic marriage over the last decade. Some individuals such as the young-old, men, the divorced, and those residing in western and southern states have better chances for marriage than other older Americans. (Author)

Participation in high-risk sports appears to have increased in the 1970s. This article analyzes this trend from a sociological perspective, citing examples from a number of commercial and noncommercial sports. (DS)

This article reveals some of the current trends, practices, and problems of remarriage. The impact of these social patterns on members of a stepfamily is discussed. (Author)

The Black family has maintained its past. African traditions, attitudes, and institutionalized forms of behavior have survived in contemporary America. The ways in which African culture was transmitted from parent to child are still a mystery to Western civilization. (Author/WI)

Develops a social value model that reveals the relationship between film and social phenomena, and political processes. The model is used to demonstrate the nature of the political context that impinges on a film, such as "Rocky," and the specific exigence to which it is a response. (JMF)

The article suggests that the regional origins constitute an important factor in determining the variations in the establishment of Chicano communities. Compared are the experiences of Mexicans in the community area of South Chicago, Illinois and a closely situated city, East Chicago, Indiana. (NQ)

The family has always existed in a complex and dynamic web of relations that include the entire range of political, social, and economic institutions of society. Knowledge of family history can dispel inhibiting myths that have limited our ability to respond creatively to alterations in American family life. (Author)

Examines contradictions in perception and position of women in India. Although women are idealized, honored, and respected, they are also over-worked and expected to toil unceasingly for their husbands and families. Concludes that women in India are moving slowly toward liberation in a manner consistent with their values. (Author/DB)

An analysis of the process of disappearance in which each language is engaged. Information concerning their past, present and future as indicated by the sociocultural profile of the ethnic groups concerned is given. The reasons for the language disappearance and, on the dialectological level, signs of language death are noted. (AMH)

The author's interest in this subject comes about from observation of an increase in ischemic heart disease in American blacks in the past decade. (GC)

In this paper, the author argues that patriclans existed among the precontact Ojibwa; demonstrates that segmentation has been a major process in group formation and dispersal throughout the contact period, and probably during prehistoric times as well; and provides new data illuminating the complexity of Amerindian sociocultural change during the…