This book features a history of women in science and an assessment of the role of gender in shaping scientific knowledge which poses the questions: (1) Do women do science differently? and (2) How about feminists--male or female? It is argued that science is both a profession and a body of knowledge, and how women have fared and performed in both…

The fragmentation of strategies that distinguishes the more successful elementary grade students from those least successful has been documented previously. This study investigated whether this phenomenon of divergence and fragmentation of strategies would occur among undergraduate students enrolled in a remedial algebra course. Twenty-six…

The guide to American and British culture, for upper secondary- and university-level students, is intended for use by learners of English as a second language. It is designed to explain specific aspects of British and American life and traditions not generally included in English language dictionaries. The guide has a dictionary format, with terms…

The children of the baby boom generation, the baby boom echo, are overwhelming the capacity of U.S. schools. This report describes how increased enrollments are affecting schools in Maryland, Georgia, Colorado, Washington State, and California. Each state report draws on specific examples of enrollment growth that were taken from school districts.…

This workbook serves as a map to guide Peace Corps trainees through their cross-cultural experience and as a record of thoughts and feelings as they live and work in their host country. The workbook examines the behaviors and values of people in the host country in relation to those of the people in the trainees' native country; it does not intend…

The author discusses the findings of an eight-year study in which she explored school and agency classification procedures for children based on standardized intelligence tests. (Editor)

This paper has two purposes. First, the relationship between work and fertility is investigated for both white and black females and is found to be inverse in both cases. Second, the relationship between female work and fertility is found to be strong and essentially the same for blacks as for whites. The only relationship found between female…

Discusses the history of the inequality of world incomes on the basis of a four-fold classification of societies. Indicates that a zero-growth, industrial, ontological, non-destructive society is predictable in the future due to man's expansion from isolated ecosystems into one single world. (CC)

Unlike the social insect, man is profoundly ambivalent in his social role: the behavioral dispositions which produce complex social interdependence and self-sacrificial altruism must be produced by culturally evolved indoctrination, which has had to counter self-serving genetic tendencies. (Author/JM)

Isolates and tries to explain a phenomenon called the altruistic paradox, which refers to the fact that mankind individually and collectively can be both cruel and kind at one and the same time. (Author/JM)

Article implies that the gathering pessimism concerning the beneficent impacts - actual and potential - of technology applied to social purposes might gradually be reversed by a more efficient and socially responsive application of technology. (Author)

A model is presented which illustrates the hypothesis that cultural differences among ethnic-religious groups give rise to differences in psychological dispositions which influence occupational achievement. (DM)

A timely and relevant prototype model is presented to illustrate how social indicators might be statistically combined into an overall Index of Social Health" for the United States. (DM)

Results indicate that factors other than age, duration of marriage, and education are significant in interspouse communication and that more sociopsychological study is needed in this area. (Author)