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This paper is based on the proposition that law can also provide a clue to normative arrangements at the micro level since societies often codify rules which are common to inter- personal relationships and are especially likely to embody rules thought to have positive moral value in their legal codes. In this paper the author tries to do three things. First, the author points to deficiencies in the exchange theory model of interpersonal interaction which have not been elaborated on by recent critics. Second, the author develops a theory of "norm-making" which suggests a mechanism by which parties can attach social guarantees to highly particularized modes of inter- action. Third, the article draws on American contract law to specify the conditions which must be fulfilled if attempts by parties to introduce particularized norms into their relationship are to be successful. Contractual agreements are one kind of agreement in which parties endeavor to create norms which will govern their future relationship. The process of creating such norms, while analogous to the more widespread norm-making which occurs in informal social relationships, is in many ways different from what occurs at the informal level.

The article presents an insight to the colleague relationships among Indian lawyers. For the litigants of an Indian district, the court is an important occasional social arena. In the lives of lawyers outside the courts, caste is significant. In general, however, caste does not have the role- summation significance for city professionals that it has in village life. For almost everything that goes on in the courtroom, there exists somewhere a set of written rules namely government manuals on court upkeep and organization, textbooks on advocacy, codes and case law. Colleague interactions here are highly legalistic in content. The constant struggles of lawyers to prevent conflicting hearings from getting on their appointment books suggest that there is scope for some division of labor even if not amounting to formal specialization in fields of law. Unlike, the linkages of an action set, the alliance does not have a variety of possible bases. All the ties that are used in alliances are those created by mutual involvement in the day to day working of the courts.

This paper reports the results of a sample survey of ZPG members undertaken in April 1971 to ascertain if any changes had occurred in membership attributes since the first survey in September 1970 and to investigate additional characteristics. Age, education, religion and student/ non-student status are considered in relation to length of membership of ZPG. Income, political activities, intended family size and opinions about ideal population size and population control are also examined, including attitudes towards vasectomy and abortion.It is concluded that, among members of voluntary organizations, demographic factors such as age, education, religion and sex do not possess a causal relationship with social behaviour. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents a list of published materials related to law and society. The list of research papers include, "Response to Judicial Decisions"; "Judicial Administration, Selection, and Education"; "Judicial Process and Behavior"; "Jurimetrics and Controlled Experiments"; "Lawyers, Legal Education, Legal Profession"; "Penology and Crime Prevention Police Administration and Criminal Justice"; and "Law and the Disadvantaged." The list of books include, "Judicial Fitness: A Comparative Study," by G.O.W. Mueller and F. Griffithes; "An Analysis of Courtrooms," by S. Van Der Ryn; "The Dimensionality of Judicial Voting Behavior," by S.S. Ulmer; "Legal Frameworks for Human Experimentation," by P.A. Freund; "The Law Schools and the Negro," by E. Gellhorn; "Behavioral Psychology: Springboard for Imaginative Legal Educators," by C.D. Kelso; "The Social Organization of Legal Contact," by L. Mayhew and A. J. Reiss and "Law Schools and Law Firms," by R. Nader.

The article presents the paper, the first of a series of reporting a five to fifteen year follow-up study of children with infantile psychoses, which attempts to provide a fairly detailed description of the children and their disorders in England. The group consisted of the 69 children who were all those who attended the Maudsley Hosspital between 1950 and 1958. The group is compared with a group of non-psychotic children who attended the same hospital at the same time, and who were individually matched for age, sex and intelligence levels.

An essay is presented on the consequences of alternative theories of Congressional-Presidential relations in the U.S. It investigates the central premise of the theory underlying the ongoing debate between the Congress and the President. The authors suggest a model for both institutions that could produce a more stable politics.

The article focuses on the theories of behavioral development from early childhood to maturity and adulthood. Three broad categories of socialization theory are psychoanalytic, social-learning, and cognitive developmental. The author remarks that spokesmen for the socialization theories suggest how a child acquires the norms of moral behavior that are critical to ensuring that his actions contribute to, or at least do not threaten, the persistence of the social order. They all consider a child's awareness of his obligations toward others to be rooted in norms of moral behavior. They concur that for these norms to be effective in directing a child's judgment, he must internalize them. Internalized norms can be counted on to set continual restraints on a child's behavior. According to psychoanalytic theory, conscience, manifest as guilt feelings, induces the child to comply with social norms. Some scholars suggest that a child can feel guilt at any age because it results from his experiences rather than from a conscious understanding of taboos. In fact, he contends that a child can feel guilty over his misbehavior before he can understand why his behavior is inappropriate or wrong. A psychoanalytic theory of development attributes guilt to experiences and feelings.

This study is concerned with a problem central to comparative politics in a world of new nations pursuing stupendous goals: how, and to what extent, political power--and specifically, legal engineering--may be deliberately used in the revolutionary transformation of societies, especially those generally called as "traditional societies." It pursues that concern through a study of the interaction between central power and local traditions in one of the peripheral areas of the Soviet land mass, Soviet Central Asia. And it is most especially concerned with the meaning and impact of large, abstract, impersonal political blueprints of great movements and figures when pursued by ordinary men in the small, concrete, and intimate worlds of human relations, on the manipulation of which the achievement of all revolutionary goal ultimately depends. Specifically, this study examines the role of legal rules and institutions in inducing, in conjunction with a series of other political drives, a full-scale revolution in traditional Islamic societies under Soviet rule in the late 1920s.

The article focuses on the integration of the term "irresponsibility" by Stuart Hampshire. It cites that irresponsibility is used to describe or set apart creative activity of an artistic sort from a code of behavior as defined and practiced by society. Further, it emphasizes that such code serves as the product of the value system of the society in the formulation of responsible behavior.