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Information about several papers discussed at the 15th annual meeting of Southern Sociological Society held on March 28-29, 1952 in Atlanta, Georgia is presented. The interrelationship of social theory and social service programming for the handicapped was illustrated in the paper "Planning for the Blind in North Carolina," by Howard E. Jensen. Papers presented at the Friday evening session are "Some Applications of Cultural Anthropology in Modern Life" and "On Political Ecology."

This article provides information on the Social Living course incorporated in the curriculum of community high schools in Atlanta, Georgia. Since September 1947, all senior boys and girls in Atlanta's community high schools have been required to take a one-semester course entitled Social Living. This is a short name for the longer, but more accurate title, Personal and Family Living. The course is based on recognized interests and needs of the students in this area and on recognized values in the life of the community. One of the goals of Social Living teachers and students has been to bring parents into the program to gain a sympathetic understanding of the course and that all may have the benefit of teacher-student-parent discussion of personal and family living problems. Another goal has been the continuous evaluation of the course to discover needed changes and emphases. Throughout the year 1951, Brown High School have used the method of open discussion, due to the fact that they had so many parents present. All of them have decided they greatly prefer this method. It is more informal and gives everybody an equal chance to participate. Since the inception of the course at Henry Grady High School it has been the plan to ask each student to appraise the semester's work in terms of what has been of greatest help to him or what he has felt a need for that was not included in the course. These papers are written after report cards have circulated and are unsigned in order that the student may have perfect freedom in expressing himself.