Examines the effect of a central cultural value, individualism-collectivism, on social loafing in an organizational setting. In the study, 48 managerial trainees from the United States and China worked under varying conditions of accountability and shared responsibility. Collectivistic beliefs influenced the incidence of social loafing. Includes…

This study focuses on the use of parables, proverbs, and metaphors as codifications in an educational program in rural Zaire. Its thesis is that Freire's concept of codification has tremendous conceptual power for transforming perspectives and providing hope in the face of dominance. (CT)

Describes the relationship between education, career/job, aspirations, social group, and life styles in Danish society. Also examines a model constructed to ascertain the level of welfare of individuals in Denmark. (CT)

Offered is an example of how contradictory macrostructural social tendencies are enacted in schooling. The central point of the paper is that socioeducational processes can be analyzed as a set of methods by which the fundamental social contradictions represented in educational settings are ordinarily continued. (Author/KC)

This third volume of the 1981 Report of the Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health presents a compendium of background data on various aspects of maternal and child health in the United States. The volume is divided into two sections. Section I consists of six chapters of text and Section II consists of 120 tables. The text is designed to…

This paper evaluates the success of a new specialization in library science, Social Information Science, developed by the author at Bar-Ilan University (Israel). The aim of Social Information is to expand the role of the library, to build new Social Information Banks, and to create a new profession, Social Information Scientist. The paper…

Research which studied women truck drivers showed that the extent of tensions suffered due to being in a nontraditional occupation is less than expected, due largely to the influence of male support, sponsorship, and protection. (Author/CT)

Argues that using the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale outside the standard hospital setting introduces variations in the physical and social context that influence scores on some of the behavioral items. (Author/BH)

The report examines the operation of Florida's child protective service system based on analysis of 2,889 representative cases of child abuse or neglect received by the State of Florida Child Abuse Registry from 1970 thru midsummer of 1977. Associations were investigated between antecedent variables (child's sex, race and age, and family structure…