Proposes a model to explain gender-role linked trend of occupational sex segregation, summarizing evidence to support the proposed mediating psychological mechanisms, and discusses the social experiences that shape gender differences on these mediators. Reviews the economic and psychological costs associated with traditional female choices.…

Develops a perspective for studying institutional procedures for assigning incoming patients to available wards and for transferring patients between and among wards. Presents ethnographic data collected in one extended-care facility. Discusses staff-patient and patient-patient interactions surrounding ward assignments and transfers. (Author/ABB)

Response-contingent learning capabilities of six profoundly retarded, multiply handicapped infants were examined using an operant conditioning paradigm. Results showed that infants learned criterion behavior although conditioning latencies were likely to occur when the children were required to produce free-operant responding. Findings are…

Considered the school's role in establishing a social attitude in the teaching profession and the development of the attitudes of students and teachers. (RK)

Traditional society, viewed as static with little differentiation or specialization as well as low levels of urbanization and literacy, and modern society, characterized as having thorough differentiation, urbanization, literacy, and exposure to mass media, are examined in situations of change as different models of social and political order…

Author suggests a clue for the kind of thinking and abstraction that can lead to achieving or redirecting goals for a more viable society. (Author/MM)

The author describes the outline and content for an English course entitled Man's Search for Utopia." (LF)

An application of the Interrupted Time-Series, a quasi-experimental research design, in the sociology of law (law and social change). The effects of British Road Safety Act of 1967, concerning drinking and driving, were analyzed. (SE)

Criticizes the preparation of teachers, and offers several ways in which important changes in teacher education could come about. (Author)

The school as a social system is examined as it is and as it ought to be. The author argues for more concern with the process of being and becoming rather than with outcomes in the accumulation of knowledge. (JMF)

The application of nonequilibrium thermodynamics could lead to new ways of understanding social processes. (BB)

Reviews the theoretical and empirical literature dealing with functionalist and conflict perspectives of the social processes of rule-creation, rule-maintenance, and the relationship of these processes to deviant behavior. (DR)