This paper provides a chronological examination of the effects of cultural values on the psychotherapeutic definition of "normal" human sexuality over the last century. (Author/AM)

Suspicion and hostility of the ghetto population is cited as the reason for low return on research surveys. It is argued that survey research should be more closely articulated in goals and methods with the population being studied--a strategy called intervention research." (DM)

Many different factors enter into riots and other forms of social violence. Often, aggression is impulsive rather than instrumental. These expressive" acts are responses to aversive conditions. Social comparisons contribute to unpleasant situations. It is suggested that unfavorable comparisons with one's own kind are particularly important.…

In an effort to seek theoretical clarification, a modified version of Rokeach's typology of belief systems is used to examine the evidence for a gap between generations on different levels of beliefs. It appears that writers who have argued that a counterculture is emergin among the younger generation are concentrating on the value orientation…

This discussion encompasses how people come to recognize moral obligations, how they arrive at moral judgments of themselves and others, and how the individual employs moral judgments to guide his own behavior. (Author/AM)

Reviews the literature from the three standpoints of learning theory, psycho-analysis, and cognitive developmental theory and suggests that investigations explore specific socialization practices that contribute to both personal integration and moral maturity. (Author/AM)

The theoretical explorations of philosophers have led to rethinking the basic concepts of self'' and other'' as preparatory to answering the question of what principles ought to or might govern helping relations between people. (Author/JM)

This paper discusses psychoanalytic contributions concerning both the development and the facilitation of qualities such as empathy, love for neighbor social-mindedness, identification, sympathy, and altruism; and neurotic manifestations of altruism and of other positive qualities. (Author/JM)

Suggests that a fundamental idea embraced today in Sweden is that one must aim for change which emancipates men as well as women from the restrictive effects engendered by the traditional sex-roles. (Author/JM)

Describes a study on the value patterns of a midwestern municipal police force, and compares police values with those of representative samples of black and white Americans. (JM)

Notes that to the extent to which solutions to major worldwide distributive problems require a cooperative-communal orientation, such solutions will not be achieved as long as the economic sphere and socializing agents persist in viewing agency-equity-competition as the natural state of mankind. (Author/AM)

Notes that the social revolution which feminism represents can be sustained only by a through going intellectual revolution which first examines and then alters the way women are socially viewed. (Author/AM)

The world view of students was investigated, measuring covert causal assumptions about the relationship between the person and physical and social reality. The results indicate that people place themselves in particular intellectual arenas because of their preexisting ideology. Suggestions for further study are made. (PS)

Unlike the social insect, man is profoundly ambivalent in his social role: the behavioral dispositions which produce complex social interdependence and self-sacrificial altruism must be produced by culturally evolved indoctrination, which has had to counter self-serving genetic tendencies. (Author/JM)