Much of what passes for professionalism is self-serving elitism and not relevant to librarianship. Librarians, most of whom are women, should continue to improve service to the public and strive by pragmatic means to overcome low pay and status. (RAA)

In most Arab countries, the emancipation of women has been retarded due to social conditions that are alien to Islamic precepts. Improvements in women's status are being made under the impact of modernization, mass education, and national struggles for liberation. (SK)

The Life Complexity Inventory was designed and administered to 140 adults in order to investigate those variables present in their day to day experience that might relate either to stability or decline of intellectual ability. Results suggest that individuals with similar life styles display similar ability patterns over time. (Author/GC)

Panel data on children's friendship choices are used in this paper to investigate the effects of sex, race, and academic achievement on the formation of new friendships and on the stability of existing friendships. (Author/EB)

Examines how the organization of the labor process generates the need for low wage powerless labor and shows how this is achieved through the use of immigrant and minority workers. Utilizes examples from large urban centers in the northern and northeastern United States. (Author/GC)

Reviews major theories of criminal justice, proposes an alternative analytic framework which focuses on cultural factors, applies this framework to several cases, and discusses implications of a cultural perspective for rule of law values. Journal available from Office of Publication, Department of Political Science, University of Florida,…

Evaluates changes which have occurred in Europe since 1960 in birthrates, rate of participation of women in the labor force, and divorce rates. Relates these changes to equality between the sexes, sex discrimination laws, equal pay legislation, abortion laws, and availability of reliable contraception. Concludes that, in spite of reforms, women…

Despite the world wide absolute and relative increase in the size and longevity of the aging population, there is a virtually universal trend toward earlier retirement from industry and even from agriculture. (Author)

Three studies examined the hypothesis that aggressive-rejected children are unaware of their social status because they are self-protective when processing negative peer feedback. Found that aggressive rejected boys could accurately assess others' social status, but aggressive rejected boys and girls were more unrealistic in assessing their own…

Faced with increased responsibilities, little social status, modest salaries, and leaner materials budgets, teachers contribute significant amounts of their own money (perhaps $1 billion yearly) for instructional purposes. A southern Minnesota study found that a typical teacher spent about $492 yearly to enrich students' learning experience. Such…

Using equal status contact theory, three school communities are examined, one in which racial differences and racist discourse are unquestioned, one that attempts to support youth in a community of difference by working the authority boundary, and one that moves toward communities of difference through bold pedagogies. (Author/SK)

This study investigated 4- to 9-year-olds' understanding of social rules and authority by asking them about stories in which the status (adult or child) of rule inventors, transgressors, and changers varied. Findings indicated that children considered children's transgressions and alteration less permissible than adults', and adult-invented…

Reexamines Cowgill and Holmes' hypothesis of an inverse relationship between industrialization and status of the aged. Suggests that status of the old throughout history fluctuates between low and high, and concludes that the elderly may receive a somewhat higher status in the postindustrial period. (Author/TE)

Examined issues facing Singapore youth. Major problems reported by 220 high school aged youth were pressure about schoolwork, worry about future, and needing help with schoolwork. Significantly larger numbers of lower-class youths reported problems with parents, sex education, self-concept, worries about work, worries about future, recreation…

Examines the following theories proposed by social psychologists to explain popular resistance to affirmative action strategies: (1) the naivete explanation; (2) the symbolic racism theory; and (3) the "realistic" group-conflict theory. Argues that social psychology ignores the public's perception of Blacks as members of a social underclass. (FMW)