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Reviews the book "Inter-American Education Occasional Papers V, VI, and VII."

Reviews the book "Rural Sociology in a Changing Urbanized Society: Background Papers for a 1964 Illinois Seminar," edited by Harvey J. Schweitzer.

Reviews the book "Research in Sociology of Education and Socialization: International Perspectives on Education," vol. 6, edited by Alan C. Kerckhoff.

Reviews the book "Community Life and Social Policy: Selected Papers by Louis Wirth," by Elizabeth Wirth Marviek and Albert J. Reiss.

Reviews the book "Fertility Decline in the Less Developed Countries," edited by Nick Eberstadt.

Reviews the book "Differential Social Impacts of Rural Resource Development," edited by Pamela D. Elkind-Savatsky.

Reviews the book "The Research Paper," by Florence M. A. Hilbish.

Reviews the book "Locality and Rurality: Economy and Society in Rural Regions," edited by Tony Bradley and Philip Lowe.

Reviews the book "Communities Left Behind: Alternatives for Development," edited by Larry Whiting.

Reviews the book "Employment in Developing Nations: Report on a Ford Foundation Study," edited by Edgar O. Edwards.

Reviews the book "Concepts, Theory, and Explanation in the Behavioral Sciences," edited by Gordon Direnzo.

Reviews the book "Studies in the Transformation of U.S. Agriculture," by A. Eugene Havens, Gregory Hooks, Patrick H. Mooney and Max Pfeffer.

Reviews several books. "Determinants of Fertility in Developing Countries," edited by Rodolfo A. Bulatao and Ronald D. Lee; "Supply and Demand for Children," vol. 1; "Fertility Regulation and Institutional Influences," vol. 2.

Reviews the book "Institution Building: A Model for Applied Social Change," by D. Woods Thomas, Harry R. Potter and William L. Miller, and edited by Adrian F. Abeni.

Reviews the book "Families in East and West: Socialization Process and Kinship Ties," edited by Reuben Hill and René Kônig.

Reviews the book "Land Economics Research," edited by Joseph Ackerman, Marion Clawson and Marshall Harris.

Reviews the book "Approaches to Problems of High Fertility in Agrarian Societies."

Reviews the book "Holding on the Land and the Lord: Kinship, Ritual, Land Tenure and Social Policy in the Rural South," edited by Robert L. Hall and Carol B. Slack.

Reviews the book "Migration," edited by J.A. Jackson.

Reviews the book "Diffusion of Innovations," by Everett Rogers.

Reviews the book "Country Life Programs," by Carl C. Taylor.

Reviews the book "The Cooperative Extension Service," edited by H.C. Sanders.

Reviews the book "Improving Impact Assessment: Increasing the Relevance and Utilization of Scientific and Technical Information," edited by Stuart L. Hart, Gordon A. Enk and William F. Hornick.

This paper examines a maritime community currently undergoing change as it has increased contact with mainstream institutions. Based on participant observation techniques, it concentrates on the interplay of change pressures and resistance mechanisms, which results in tension on the institutional level and ambivalence on the individual level. Vertical ties to mainstream institutions are becoming more important than community horizontal ones, calling into question the power of the sole decision-making institution on the Island, the church, and overloading existing mechanisms of social control. Questions are raised concerning how the community will become more tightly linked into mainstream society. Two outcomes--"seasonal autonomy" and "museum community"--are viewed as possibilities, depending on whether control of the linkage is with development capital or the state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Agricultural Mechanization: A Comparative Historical Perspective," by Hans P. Binswanger.

Reviews the book "The Dying Community," by Art Gallaher Jr.

Reviews the book "Social and Technological Management in Dry Lands: Past and Present, Indigenous and Imposed," edited by Nancie Gonzalez.

Reviews the book "Comparative Research Methods," by Donald P. Warwick and edited by Samuel Oshershon.

Reviews the book "Manpower and Education: Country Studies in Economic Development," edited by Frederick Harbison and Charles A. Myers.

Reviews the book "Traditional Cultures: And the Impact of Technological Change," by George M. Foster.

Reviews the book "Human Relations in the Industrial Southeast," by Glenn Gilman.

Reviews the book "Trends and Differentials in Mortality."

Reviews the book "China's Gentry: Essays in Rural-Urban Relations," by Hsiao-tung Fei, edited by Margaret Park Redfield.

Reviews three books on Rural Community. "Structure and Function of Rural Communities in the Sphere of Influence of a German Medium-Sized Town," by Herbert Kötter; "Rural Population in the "Magnetic" Field of a Town," by Karl G. Grϋneisen; "The Part-Time Fanner and His Family at the Meeting Point of Rural and Urban Life," by Gerhart Teiwes.

Reviews the book "Proceedings of the National Conference of Social Work."

Reviews the book "Post-War Problems."

Reviews the book "Proceedings of the National Conference of Social Work."

Reviews the book "The Economics and Sociology of Rural Communities," by Daniel Thorniley.

Reviews the book "Farms in Transition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Farm Structure,"edited by David E. Brewster, Wayne D. Rasmussen and Garth Youngberg.

Reviews the book "Black Migration in America: A Social Demographic History," by Daniel M. Johnson and Rex R. Campbell.

Reviews the book "Qualitative and Quantitative Social Research," edited by Robert K. Merton, James S. Coleman and Peter H. Rossi.

Reviews two books on agricultural policies and economic development of rural areas. "Agricultural Policies in the USSR and Eastern Europe," edited by Ronald A. Francisco, Betty A. Laird and Roy D. Laird; "The Peasantry of Eastern Europe," vol. 2, "20th Century Developments," edited by Ivan Volgyes.

Reviews two books. "Perspectives on State Demographic Activities," by the Southern Regional Demographic Group and Oak Ridge Associated Universities; "Population Forecasting for Small Areas: An Examination of the State of the Art As Applied to the Problems of Planning," by Oak Ridge Associated Universities.

Reviews the book "Demographic, Economic, and Social Interaction," by Ake E. Andersson and Ingvar Holmberg.

Reviews the book "Mediterranean Family Structures," edited by J.G. Peristiany.

Reviews the book "Sociological Perspectives of Domestic Development," edited by George M. Beal, Ronald C. Powers and E. Walter Coward

Reviews the book "Perspectives in Development Change," edited by Art Gallaher Jr.

Reviews the book "Social Change," by Richard T. La Piere.

Reviews books on biotechnology. "Biotechnology and Agricultural Cooperatives: Opportunities and Challenges," edited by William B. Lacy and Lawrence Busch; "From Farming to Biotechnology," by David Goodman, Bernardo Sorj and John Wilkinson.

Previous research on rural-urban differentials in family behavior has generally focused on cumulative fertility. These studies generally conclude that there has been substantial convergence in these differentials, and that much of the remaining difference can be attributed to differentials in socioeconomic and demographic traits. More recently, family demographers are turning their attention to the timing of specific family formation events. In this paper, three key family formation events are examined: first sexual intercourse, first birth, and first marriage. Using life table techniques, the timing of these events for different levels of urbanization is compared. The four levels of urbanization considered are central cities, suburbs, nonmetropolitan urban places, and rural areas. Multivariate life table regression analysis is also used to determine whether rural-urban differentials persist once other socioeconomic and demographic variables are taken into account. Data for this analysis are taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Work Experience of Youth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]