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Modern information technology gives even young students access to tools & data resources that until recently were the exclusive privilege of a minority of university graduates. Focus here is on the concept of social science laboratories -- a teaching environment in which students are allowed to practice the role of social scientists through confrontation with concrete research material. Several ongoing projects & plans for future developments are discussed, & four laboratories based on comparative data for Europe are described. 2 Tables, 2 Illustrations. Adapted from the source document.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- PART I: IMPLICATIONS OF ALTERNATIVE DATA-COLLECTION APPROACHES -- 2. A Fully Nonmetric Unfolding Technique: Interval Values from Ordinal Data -- 3. Social Attitudes: Magnitude Measurement and Theory -- 4. Reladons between Scales -- 5. Memory and the Assessment of Behavior -- 6. Measurement Error in Sociometry -- PART II: MULTIPLE INDICATOR APPROACHES -- 7. An Empirical and Algebraic Analysis of Alternative Techniques for Measuring Unobserved Variables -- 8. Multiple Indicators: Some Criteria of Selection -- 9. Quantifying Unmeasured Variables -- 10. The Causal Approach to Measurement Error in Panel Analysis: Some Further Contingencies -- PART III: ORDINAL MEASUREMENT -- 11. Measures of Association for Bivariate Ordinal Hypotheses -- 12. Ordinal Measures of Association and the General Linear Model -- 13. Nonparametric Partial Correlation -- 14. Ordinal Partial Correlation and Causal Inferences -- 15. Beyond Ordinal Measurement: Weak Tests of Stronger Theories -- Index

(Originally published in the International Social Science Bulletin, 1949, 1, 1/2.) Discusses the integration of the social sciences into UNESCO in the immediate post-WWII period. While the need to include the social sciences was evident to all, several dilemmas were immediately raised: unrealistic expectations that the social sciences might contribute to global problems in a similar manner as the sciences; difficulties in integrating different conceptions of the social sciences developed in different regions of the world; establishing the relation of the social sciences to the humanities; & the absence of national social science organizations that might contribute to an international body. Efforts to solve these dilemmas over the organization's first 18 months are described. It is suggested that four main lines of activity were particularly fruitful: a project on tensions affecting human understanding; an international collaboration project; intensive work in political science as especially requiring international treatment; & a progressive international organization of the social sciences. D. Ryfe