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"The White House Conference on Child Health and Protection, called by President Hoover, assembled in Washington, November 19-22, 1930, with 3000 men and women, leaders in the medical, educational, and social fields as they touch the life of the child, in attendance. This conference included the following subjects: the dependent child; economic and social basis for child welfare standards; child labor, health of children and mothers; children in need of special care; and standardization of welfare laws. In addition the range of the conference was enlarged to consider all children, in their total aspects, including those social and environmental factors which are influencing modern childhood. Information is grouped in four main sections: medical service, public health and administration, education and training, and the handicapped"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved)

Covers the international economic trade relations of the United States during the early 20th century. An examination of current policies, with the purpose of addressing upcoming trade policy decisions. The author answers questions around the renewal of the Trade Agreements Act

Since the Soviet judicial system is patterned largely after the political system, the study is introduced with an explanation of the governmental plan of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and its constituent parts. The author, who is thoroughly conversant with Russian language, life, and politics, has discussed the political and social philosophy of the Soviet as it affects the administration of criminal justice. The material has been collected not only from published records but from firsthand observation in Russia. It has been brought up to date by a summary of a Project for a New Soviet Code of Criminal Procedure (August, 1931). Based on proletarian political philosophy, the Soviet Codes differ very widely from Russian Imperial Law and from European practice in general, the most striking instance being, the abolishment of trial by jury. By considering the social, economic, and human background of Soviet Law, the author has brought out these contrasts in a lucid fashion, and although the book is primarily a legal treatise, it provides a wealth of new information for general readers

"This volume is intentionally far from representing an attempt at exhaustive discussion, or even complete cataloging, of the data of criminology. The book differs from others in the general field in that it is, from first to last, an attempt at a psychologic approach. But it does not emphasize criminal-personality characteristics that were "before the world was." On the other hand the author believes that this personality is at least as much a product of social contacts as is the professional disposition of the physician, e.g. The acquired attitudes, he believes, are probably the greatest sources of our behavior whether it be making professional visits upon the sick or robbing banks. These attitudes develop out of infinitely numerous reactions to our environment; reactions that are facilitated or retarded by reason of our native capacities, our prepotent reflexes, etc. Whatever agencies are set up, therefore, for dealing with the criminal must be examined as to their merits by reference to their suitability for developing appropriate attitudes among criminals and all others who come into contact with these agencies"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).

This volume explores the phenomenon of personality disorganization as manifested in family life, domestic discord in particular. The author emphasizes that better diagnosis and better treatment result from the fact that one sees one's materials in terms of mental mechanisms on the one hand, and in terms of social interaction on the other--both of these projected upon a varying cultural and experiential background of the individuals involved. Specifically, the four most significant features of her standpoint and interpretation are: (1) the place of culture in personality differences; (2) the patterns of social interaction, especially those which develop in the early years of life; (3) the nature and direction of mental mechanisms as they are affected by culture and interaction; and (4) the problem of methods of analysis and that of treatment or therapy. Throughout the text, illustrative cases are presented to further enhance the reader's understanding of the subject matter. Overall, the text aims to present a central frame of orientation for studies of family adjustment from different points of view. This is in terms of husband and wife as two culturally conditioned personalities interacting with each other and with their social milieu. This volume should have a wide use as textbook and reference work for college and university courses, as a working manual for those employed in family interviewing and clinical treatment, and by all who are seeking further light upon an understanding of the factors at work in family interaction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved)

"The interest in social psychology has not been confined to any one section of social science. On the contrary, workers in sociology, psychology, economics, and political science, historians, psychiatrists, and even literary men have all written important and significant books which must be classified as directly bearing on this field. The attempt to understand social psychology is obviously greater every year, and the student who tries to avail himself of the heritage is confronted with a laborious and confusing body of reading which soon makes him aware of the need of some guiding clew. It is clear then that a historical guide like the present work ought to serve a very useful purpose, besides being of general interest to the intellectual reader. The author has chosen to use a sort of modified biographical treatment inherited from the tradition of histories of philosophy for this book, and by copious quotation and sympathetic condensation has set for herself the task of giving the reader the teachings of the various authors on the questions that interested them most. French, German, and English writers pass in review before the reader, for all these have left a tradition without which the views of the Americans could not be understood. Until the latter part of the work is reached the treatment of the Americans is roughly chronological, so that the development can be seen and the influences traced." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

"The beginner in experimentation too often finds himself supplied with a pair of elaborate mechanisms. In the one hand is a mass of data demanding simplification and interpretation, while in the other is a complex statistical methodology said to be necessary to research. How shall the two be geared together? Since the data can be only inefficiently utilized without statistical method, and since method is futile until applied to data, it seems strange that greater effort has not been made to unite the two. The biologist who has not been able to keep abreast of the progress of statistics finds himself a bit confused by the new ideas and technical terms. It is thought that he will welcome a statement of them in a form that will not require too much distraction of his attention from necessary professional duties. It is a fundamental belief of the author that statistical method can be used competently by scientists not especially trained in mathematics. The conditions surrounding the mathematical theorems can be set forth in terms quite readily understood by the lay reader. Since mastery of two sciences is possible for only few, it is necessary for most of us to advance by cooperation. To the mathematical statistician must be delegated the tasks of developing the theory and devising the methods, accompanying these latter by adequate statements of the limitations on their use. None but the biologist can decide whether the conditions are fulfilled in his experiments and interpret the results. The only mathematics used in this book is arithmetic, supplemented by enough symbolism to make the exposition intelligible"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

"This volume owes its existence first of all to the members of a college debating club, who invited the author to give them a lecture on the psychology of the audience. In complying with this request a search was made for such matter-of-fact and experimentally verified data as the literature of social psychology and of public speaking might afford. The search was but poorly rewarded. Rules and principles were found in sufficient number, and advice was freely offered in manuals; but little but personal opinion was offered in support of the various admonitions. The appetite of the debating club was easily enough satisfied, but by that time an intrinsic interest in the topic had developed. Investigations were found the results of which seemed directly applicable to the psychology of the audience, however foreign this interest may have been to the original investigator. A few experimental studies dealing directly with audience situations were discovered. New ones were instituted by students and fellow workers. Gradually the results appeared to lend themselves to systematic presentation. They were meager and often inconclusive, but they led to further inquiries and made it possible to conduct a short seminar on the topic. The topic was then laid by for maturation. But it soon proved to be a subject of interest to those outside the laboratory and the classroom. Teachers of public speaking, clergymen, extension institutes, and clubs asked to have the topic considered. The original one lecture expanded into several. The Christian Advocates then asked to be permitted to publish the material as an article, and this was done. Organizations of speech specialists undertook on their own account several experimental studies in this field. Some of their members urged that, however incomplete the material, it be made available through publication as a survey of our present information. When a publisher, through one of his editors, desired to produce a book on the topic, the last defense broke down and the manuscript was released. The author's hope is that, as an account of our more or less experimentally verifiable knowledge up to date, flavored with a mild touch of general psychological analysis, the survey may lead to more extended and more rapid advances in the study of a group of problems that have at once a genuine psychological interest and a widespread practical importance"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)