Relates how Pima Community College was selected to assess the health, education, and welfare needs of South Tucson, Arizona. Describes the use of an advisory committee; panels for health, education, and welfare; interviews with selected residents; and a survey of service agencies. Enumerates study findings and recommendations. (AYC)

Anthropologists have often treated certain factors of community organization as given, rather than as potentially important variables to be investigated. Results of two community studies, however, suggest that community structure may be as important a variable to be investigated as either ethnicity or occupational status. (Author/GC)