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This volume presents the results of a three-year study of the impact of New York State's strict drug law, which was enacted in 1973. The study was undertaken by the Joint Committee on New York Drug Law Evaluation, established by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the Drug Abuse Council, Inc. The volume has three main sections.…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Crime, Criminal Law, Drug Abuse
Scribner, Richard A., Ed.; Chalk, Rosemary A., Ed. – 1977
This document contains the proceedings of a workshop conference sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) held at the Institute of Man and Science in Rensselaerville, New York, in May 1976. The proceedings include presented papers, discussions, and comments of the participants. The conference had two sets of…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Energy, Problems, Research Problems
Tsien, Ay-Ling; Ostman, Ronald E. – 1980
A trend analysis was conducted to determine the characteristics of news articles, editorials, and advertisements about tobacco that appeared in the magazines "Newsweek,""Time," and "U. S. News and World Report." Nine time periods in three intervals were studied: 1959-1961-1963, 1965-1967-1969, and 1973-1975-1977. An…
Descriptors: Advertising, Editorials, Health Education, Mass Media
SINDER, LEON – 1964
THE SURVEY FOR RESEARCH WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY A RESEARCH CENSUS. OVER 90 PERCENT OF THE PROJECTS ABSTRACTED DEAL WITH PROBLEMATIC RELATIONS AMONG MAJOR GROUPS IN OUR SOCIETY. A SMALLER NUMBER FOCUSES ON PROBLEMS OF MINORITY ETHNIC GROUP RELATIONSHIPS. THE GENERAL CATEGORIES ARE LISTED UNDER SUBHEADINGS AS EITHER COMPLETED, ONGOING OR CONTEMPLATED.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Census Figures, Civil Rights, Intergroup Relations
BEBOUT, JOHN E. – 1967
THE AUTHOR EXAMINES THE INFLUENCE OF TEACHING AND RESEARCH, PRIMARILY THE WORK OF THE UNIVERSITY, ON SOCIAL CHANGE. HE STATES THAT TEACHING AND RESEARCH ARE THE FOREMOST GENERATORS OF SOCIAL CHANGE, THUS THE SUCCESS WITH WHICH WE COPE WITH PRESENT AND FUTURE PROBLEMS DEPENDS ON THE UNIVERSITY. THE UNIVERSITY IS IN A UNIQUE POSITION OF RELATIVE…
Descriptors: Community Responsibility, Community Role, Educational Philosophy, Leadership Responsibility
REQUA, ELOISE; THOMASINE, SISTER M. – 1964
A CONFERENCE WAS HELD TO PROVIDE 30 PARTICIPATING SCHOLARS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF UNDERDEVELOPED NATIONS IN RELATION TO EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH. THE THIRD IN A SERIES OF BIENNIAL CONFERENCES, IT POOLED INTERDISCIPLINARY RESOURCES FOR REAPPRAISAL OF THE MOST RECENT FINDINGS, AND PROVIDED THE ATMOSPHERE FOR AN…
Descriptors: Conferences, Developing Nations, Discussion Groups, Economic Research
MORRIS, EDDIE W. – 1965
CERTAIN FACTORS AFFECTING FACULTY DESEGREGATION SUCH AS DESEGREGATION PREPARATION, TEACHER PERCEPTION AND QUALIFICATION, COMMUNITY STRUCTURE, AND SCHOOL FACILITIES WERE STUDIED. THE INTERVIEW SCHEDULE CONSISTED OF TWO PARTS. PART ONE WAS DESIGNED TO INVESTIGATE PREPARATION, UTILIZATION, ASSIGNMENT, AND OBSERVATIONS. PART TWO WAS DESIGNED TO…
Descriptors: Black Teachers, Community Influence, Comparative Analysis, Desegregation Methods
Sicoli, M. L. Corbin – 1980
The Defining Issues Test (DIT), which utilizes the moral development stage theory of L. Kohlberg, was administered to 41 students from an upper middle class school district in Pennsylvania. The scores of students who elected to attend the alternative high school were compared with the scores of students who elected to attend the district's…
Descriptors: High School Students, High Schools, Moral Values, Nontraditional Education
Liljestrom, Rita – 1980
Attempts to trace historical changes in the relationship between adults and children from pre-industrial times in Europe to the European present are made in this essay. Topics discussed include: (1) brief childhood in pre-industrial society; (2) the discovery of childhood by the bourgeoisie; (3) the reproduction of the proletariat; (4) the…
Descriptors: Change, Cultural Influences, Economic Development, Foreign Countries
Payton, Carolyn R. – 1979
This paper (1) summarizes some of the recent research and evaluation of drug and other substance abuse programs, and (2) directs attention to the work of Federal agencies (NIDA and ADAMHA) concerned with drug and substance abuse, with special reference to the impact of this work on the alleviation of minority group drug abuse problems. Evidence is…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Drug Abuse, Federal Programs, Information Needs
Hanson, Art – 1980
Two books that use documentary photography to examine social problems--"You Have Seen Their Faces," a 1937 study of Southern sharecroppers by Margaret Bourke-White and Erskine Caldwell, and "An American Exodus," a 1939 examination of the migration of farm families by Dorothea Lange and Paul S. Taylor--are compared in this…
Descriptors: Books, Captions, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis
Harrow, Kenneth
Sembene Ousmane's film, "Xala" (meaning impotence), can be seen as a revolutionary tool. Although his works were originally inspired by the African's struggle for liberation from colonial domination, "Xala" reflects the revolutionary intellectual's protest against corrupt socialist authoritarianism. Everyday events in the lives of the characters,…
Descriptors: African Culture, African Literature, Authoritarianism, Content Analysis
Hepworth, H. Philip – 1979
This paper provides a summary of a baseline study of Canadian child welfare services from 1959 to 1977. The nation-wide study relates main trends in the services to a background of demographic, social, legislative and organizational change. Progress of the research project is outlined to illustrate some of the constraints on research in Canada at…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Demography, Foreign Countries, National Surveys
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. – 1977
This record of the testimony presented to the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency of the Committee on the Judiciary concerns the problem of the juvenile status offender in Iowa. Running away, truancy, defiance of and refusal to submit to parental authority and promiscuity are defined and treated as status offenses. This problem is…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Community Services, Correctional Rehabilitation, Delinquency Prevention
Speeter, Greg – 1978
The purpose of this manual is to encourage the growth of community organization and to make the process of mobilizing a community and the skills involved known to those who participate in the organizing process. It offers practical suggestions on understanding the organizing process, diagnosing, and improving it. The manual is written with the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Citizen Participation, Community Organizations, Group Structure
