Describes the chief aims of the Council for Science and Society in London and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna. Indicates that both groups are planning to function as a multinational interdisciplinary organization. (CC)

Corporations wielding greater power than many states and some nations make decisions having far greater implications for communities than do the local laws governing those communities. It is speculated that the constitutional framers may have provided checks, balances and constraints for them as they did for government if their potential power had…

This service, offered by The Family Coordinator, is a report of articles found in journals which are not likely to be read regularly but offer an article or special issue of particular usefulness in the family field. Topics included in this issue are paternal rights, student marriages, women's studies, sex, Kibbutz Children, intermarriage and…

A narrative of the author's experiences in attempting to bring a white racist speaker before his integrated class on black-white conflict at the University of North Florida at Jacksonville. (JM)

The author first describes a new way of doing ethnographic research, contrasting it with the prevalent academic style, and then discusses the studies of black prostitution done by him and his wife. (JM)

Discusses the thesis that the administration of physical punishment to children may pre-dispose them to violence as adults. Child-rearing practices, physical punishment within the schools, modeling of violent behavior by adults, and the self-fulling prophecy, i.e., you are bad,'' are types of practices considered. (LK)

Needed changes in methods of law instruction for police officers and in society's attitudes toward law enforcement are discussed. (JB)

The University Year for Action is a federally funded program that lets students work firsthand with some of the problems of our society; drug abuse, poverty, the elderly, and the mentally ill. (PG)

Discusses "Pather Panchali, "Apur Sansar, "The Music Room, "Aparajito, "Devi, and "Mahanagar. (SW)

Describes a project in which student discussions of social problems were videotaped and the tapes exchanged with schools whose student bodies had decidedly different ethnic compositions. (LS)

Analytical comments by Russell Kirk, Charles Lewis, E.G. Williamson, William Watts, Sherman Teichman, Dennis Winkler, Carole Remick, and William Pollard, on two articles in same issue by Edward J. Shoben, Jr. ("The Campus Community and the Futureless Generation , and "Student Unrest: The Climate of Protest .) (CJ)

The multifunctional aspects of the modern metropolis predetermine that the diverse elements of the population must be considered in planning schemes. The anthropologist, the planner, and the social scientist may no longer view the city from their quite different perspectives. (JB)

Describes a course at Kansas State University intended to bring together students of all disciplines for intensive discussion of technology and society. (Author/TS)