The videotape "Central American Children Speak: Our Lives and Dreams" begins and ends in a U.S. classroom where students are studying Central America. The video, which was designed to help children gain a basic understanding of one another, follows seven Central American children through a typical day of school, work, and play. Their…

This paper is a rebuttal to Garrett Hardin's thesis that long-term survival of human beings can be threatened by environmental devastation caused by brief humanitarian desires to save lives. Discussions include population dynamics, resource distribution, ecological stability, and ethics of developed nations and undeveloped nations relationships.…

This paper examines the role that comparative analysis and global policy studies can play in explaining the human condition in the contemporary world. It investigates economic well-being, one dimension of the human condition, and examines some of the attributes that represent it and some of the forces that affect it in villages, social groupings,…

THIS COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS INVESTIGATED MOONLIGHTING, MINIMUM ADEQUATE FAMILY INCOME, TEACHERS' SALARIES AS AGAINST THOSE IN OTHER OCCUPATIONS, AND POTENTIAL EARNING POWER. THE AVERAGE ANNUAL INCOME OF ALL TEACHERS IN THE UNITED STATES DURING 1966-67 WAS $6,820, BELOW THAT OF MOST INDUSTRIAL, TECHNICAL, AND PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES. IN THE 50 LARGEST…

This study is the twentieth in a series of twenty reports completed by the Children's Environments Advisory Service for the International Year of the Child, 1979. The objective of the investigation was to examine the use of incentives to encourage desired housing quality improvements in new housing being built. Findings, conclusions and…

This paper reports on a historico-sociological study describing the current situation of Vietnamese refugees who settled in the New Orleans, Louisiana, area between 1975 and 1980. The paper begins with a historical background section which presents information about the fall of the South Vietnamese government in 1975, the resulting influx of…

Utilizing an ex-post-facto experimental design, all occupied households located within the rural area of Canton San Carlos in Costa Rica (La Fortuna) were studied in August of 1972 for purposes of testing the hypothesis that electricity use is positively associated with level of living. Interviews with 452 heads of households (when possible)…

The 1966 resident survey was conducted to gain definite information on the numbers and locations of Indian residents of Duluth, Minnesota. The report focuses on the socioeconomic conditions of the 160 Indian families surveyed. Lack of education was reported to be one of the main problems; only 7% of the city's Indian population had completed high…

The purposes of Southern Regional Project S-48 were to study: (1) educational and vocational goals of rural teenagers; (2) educational and vocational goals that parents hope their teenagers have for themselves; and (3) comparison of above points. Data were obtained from a sample of 388 ninth and tenth graders and their parents selected from 10…

Since the migrant family has unique economic and educational problems which substantially influence the children, this annotated bibliography was compiled to present literature which is directly related to these problems. More than 50 entries, published from 1957 through 1967, comprise the bibliography. The document is appended with evaluations of…

The goals of the Caltech Population Program are to increase understanding of the interrelationships between population growth and socioeconomic and cultural patterns throughout the world and to communicate this understanding. This series of occasional papers is one step in the process of communicating research results. The papers deal primarily…

A historical overview of events through which regional research has evolved among rural sociologists in the South is presented in this report. The report is divided into 3 sections. The first section, an introduction, contains 2 articles. The first discusses the general climate of rural sociology activity during the first half of the 20th century.…

Problems in the Appalachian region are described in this report. The realities of deprivation are documented through low income, high unemployment, lack of urbanization, deficits in education, deficits in living standards, and a changing citizenry. It is noted that the program recommendations must be regarded as a total effort. The Commission…

Commissioned by the New York State Center for Migrant Studies, this study examined the rate and causes of agricultural mechanization in New York State and its effect upon the economic and living conditions of migrants, as well as the possible solutions to the problems uncovered. Examined in various stages of mechanization were 3 specific areas…

As subject populations, Indians have been denied success in the goals of corporate collectivism and Protestant ethic individualism set for them by the federal government and local Whites. As a result, Indians have few skills, little education, no capital, poor housing, poor health, and no influence or power. (Author/EB)