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)

Special issue devoted to the topic of standard spoken usage. (VM)

Earlier draft of this paper prepared with the fellowship support of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and a grant from the National Science Foundation, and distributed as Working Paper No. 39, Language-Behavior Research Laboratory (March 1971). (VM)

Clash of cultures produces the defeatism erroneously called shyness in the Spanish-speaking child. (Author/ML)

The authors conclude that Daniel Bell's thesis (AA 511 929) does not, as he claims, prove the independence of culture from socioeconomic systems. They then conduct their own exploration of American culture and values. (Authors/JB)