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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- In Memoriam -- Chapter 1 - Families and troubles -- Definitions -- Problems -- Issues -- Auto-constructing a New World Order -- New families -- Chapter 2 - Globalization and its discontents -- Global culture and global values -- Ecumenical/religious orientations -- Economic/materialist orientations -- Universalist/humanist orientations -- Seven rings of Gaia -- Global discontents -- Chapter 3 - Families and values -- The value of families (for society) -- Social resonance and multiple identities -- Chapter 4 - The global in the local -- Intentional socialization -- Doing peace in families -- Doing respect for diversity in families -- Doing gender-equity in families -- Doing environmental care in families -- Chapter 5 - Global dreams and global nightmares -- Five conundrums wrapped in a paradox -- Roles for families -- A quixotic proposition -- Appendix Participants - Budapest Symposium -- Bibliography

Originally published in 1987, this book provides insights into what Robert Rapoport calls 'social inventions', in contrast to technical inventions. The author looks at ten projects in which behavioural science researchers collaborate with innovative action agencies in the children's mental health field. Each of the projects is described and analysed as a case study - revealing how the intervention took form, what contribution was expected from a collaborative relationship with a behavioural scientist, and what the actual experiences were in attempting to apply and disseminate knowledge arising from such a relationship. Though the book confronts the difficulties of action-research - both for practitioner and researcher - it emerges with an optimistic note and a wealth of practical and conceptual insights illuminating the way forward

Book reviewed in this article:OTHER.: The Urban Process: Cities in Industrial Societies. Leonard Reissman.OTHER. Social Change. Richard T. La Piere.