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Foreword, by R.F.Nichols.- Preface, by R.Wessel.- Editor's note.- Economic myth and fact in social work, by E.Clague.- Nature and moral choice, by P.B.Sears.- The past as a guide to the function and pattern of social work, by K.deSchweinitz.- Today's frontiers in social work education, by R.E.Smalley

"An attempt to analyze the cause and character of a profound revolution taking place from Morocco to Pakistan. This Report examines the forces, groups, ideas, and institutions now in motion and estimates the direction which politics may take in the future in the area. While the transformation here under study embraces both the pervasive nationalist revolution and the ensuing "revolution of rising expectations," its sources and ramifications are broader and run deeper than nationalism and its discontents: (1) a way of life 1300 years old is being destroyed by challenges for which it was almost entirely unprepared; (2) a social system with new values is taking the place of traditional society; (3) a different range of ideological choices has opened up for a new kind of elite; (4) new political instruments are at the elite's disposal; (5) the fact that new men are using new means to attain new ends in their attempts to deal with the politics of social change entails widespread revolutionary consequences."--Author's report.

"An attempt to analyze the cause and character of a profound revolution taking place from Morocco to Pakistan. This Report examines the forces, groups, ideas, and institutions now in motion and estimates the direction which politics may take in the future in the area. While the transformation here under study embraces both the pervasive nationalist revolution and the ensuing "revolution of rising expectations," its sources and ramifications are broader and run deeper than nationalism and its discontents: (1) a way of life 1300 years old is being destroyed by challenges for which it was almost entirely unprepared; (2) a social system with new values is taking the place of traditional society; (3) a different range of ideological choices has opened up for a new kind of elite; (4) new political instruments are at the elite's disposal; (5) the fact that new men are using new means to attain new ends in their attempts to deal with the politics of social change entails widespread revolutionary consequences."--Author's report

I. Signs and Symbols. The Linguistic Sign -- II. The Communication Process -- III. Preliminary Expression Analysis. Acoustic and Physiological Variables. Information -- IV. Segmentation. Forms of Expression. Oppositions and Distinctions. Paradigmatic Structures -- V. Redundancy and Relevancy. Levels of Abstraction -- VI. The Distinctive Feature Concept. The Binary Choice -- VII. Syntagmatic Structures. Distribution and Probability -- VIII. Content Analysis -- IX. The Functions of Language -- X. Perception and Linguistic Interpretation -- XI. Primitive Structures and Defective Language -- XII. Linguistic Change -- Bibliographical Notes.

"This book is a social psychology in the Galilean tradition. Our contention is that the conditions under which human behavior occurs are primarily meanings, for the most part common meanings. In this sense we may think of this book as a logic of symbolic interaction. Some twenty years ago signs of a new trend began to appear, and it is our belief that this book is a product of that trend. The new trend showed increasing emphasis on social interaction, on analysis of dynamic processes, as against the more static attributes or entities. The new trend seemed to portend a movement toward synthesis and the emergence of an integrated system for social psychology, a system competent to describe and analyze in the same vocabularies the phenomena of both individual and group in terms of intrapersonal and interpersonal behavior. This book is presented as a beginning in that direction; it is an attempt to synthesize in a systematic heuristic form some of the more advanced contemporary thinking about human behavior in the fields of social psychology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, psychiatry, and semantics. The book purports to be an integrated conceptual formulation for social psychology in a form which synthesizes the situational or field approach with the symbolic interactionist approach. The viewpoint is therefore field-centric rather than organocentric or envirocentric. It is a descriptive analysis of how man perceives, makes judgments and choices, thinks, and otherwise behaves and comes to behave, as a social being; it is a study of 'the person in the body'." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved)

Family life- an interdisciplinary study / Joseph K. Folsom -- Education and family life / Muriel W. Brown -- American culture and family life / John Sirjamaki -- Marriage in middle-class families / Earl Lomon Koos -- Race, religion, and nationality in mate selection / Milton L. Barron -- Social psychological factors affecting fertility : the Indianapolis study / Charles F. Westoff -- Sex and the social order / Georgene H. Seward -- Divorce and its effects / Kingsley Davis -- The wise choice of a mate / Ernest W. Burgess -- The diagnosis of love / Henry A. Bowman -- Courtship and engagement / Evelyn M. Duvall -- Premarital sex relationships / Anna O. Stephens -- Premarital physical examination / Morris Fishbein -- The wedding and honeymoon / Ada Hart Arlitt -- Anatomy and physiology of the sex organs / Robert L. Dickinson -- Technique of marriage relations / G. Lombard Kelly -- Sexual adjustment in marriage / O. Spurgeon English -- Measuring and predicting marital success / Lewis M. Terman --

"Social science is the science of human interaction. In recent years, behavioral studies, which attempt to interpret human relations in empirically specifiable, if not quantitative terms, have been fruitful, especially in defining concepts such as influence and power. Felix Oppenheim in this book extends the behavioral analysis of power to the key concept of freedom. He uncovers in the process significant connections among influence, control, power, "un-freedom," freedom, dependence, and independence. Like power, freedom is a matter of degree, and Mr. Oppenheim analyzes it in its several dimensions. He distinguishes freedom in the social sense from other empirical meanings, such as freedom of choice, "free will," free actions, and self-determination, as well as from valuational usages of the word, such as "freedom from want" and "government by consent." Indeed, those who proclaim "freedom" as a supreme political goal are often mistaken about their own valuations, or exploit to their own advantage ambiguous notions of freedom held by others. Mr. Oppenheim employs familiar political doctrines to illustrate the confusion stemming from failure to make these distinctions. In his conclusion, which is an inquiry into the meaning of valuing freedom, Mr. Oppenheim carefully avoids propounding value judgments. Though this is an analytic study, Mr. Oppenheim has written it in lucid, non-technical language. It should appeal to readers in many fields--philosophy, political science, sociology, psychology, economics, and law"--Jacket. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved).