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The article provides an update on research being conducted by staff of the Industrial Research Unit at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce as of January 1971. Herbert R. Northrup, Richard L. Rowan and Bernard E. Anderson are examining training programs in the paper industry. Studies in the field of labor policy and collective bargaining are under way under the direction of John E. Abodeely. In addition, a study is under way concerning causes of rejections by union rank and file of contracts negotiated by representatives.

The article presents information about the journal "American Sociological Review." The Editorial Board, at its meeting in Philadelphia, December 27, 1939, decided that any member of the Society who is engaged in scholarly work may quote any material published in the Review, up to 500 words, without asking permission of the editor, provided that the user is not trying to make personal profit out of the author's or publisher's property, or to pass off as his own, work which is really that of another. Since all material in the Review is copyrighted, it is the property of the Society and its agent. The Editorial Board has the legal right to grant or withhold such permission. All members should encourage students to take advantage of the student subscription rate of $2.50. Letters from persons who are not actually members of the Society will not be printed. A number of matters were discussed at the Editorial Board meeting held in Philadelphia. For the benefit of the newer members of the Society, and as a reminder to others, it is perhaps advisable to make a statement regarding publication procedure and policy.

A conference paper that discusses the results of a research study conducted to establish a method and tool for preparing ground sections of calcified dental tissue is presented. The paper was read at the 18th General Meeting of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 14, 1940.

A conference paper that discusses the results of a research study conducted to determine the effects of a thyroidectomy or thyroid stimulation on the development of the permanent dentition in monkeys is presented. The paper was read at the 18th General Meeting of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 13, 1940.

This article reports on research programs conducted by the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce. The Industrial Research Unit's study on Negro employment, which was sponsored by the Ford Foundation, has been under the direction of Herbert R. Northrup and Richard L. Rowan. Grants from the U.S. Department of Labor's Manpower Administration supported two recent studies. One focused on paper-industry laborers who participated in company-sponsored adult education programs, and whether or not they were promoted. The second study focused on the impact of two Department of Labor "Philadelphia" type plans in the construction industry and the issue of nonunion labor. Bernard E. Anderson is conducting a follow-up study of Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC) graduates and researching the status of minority employment in the chemical and aluminum industries.

The article presents the 34th spring conference of the Woods Schools in cooperation with the Technical Planning Project of the American Association on Mental Deficiency and Other Private and Governmental Agencies that will be held on May 1 to 3, 1959 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It includes fundamental issues in research strategy, principles and philosophy. The diverse aspects of measurement problems as matching, cooperative utilization of data, analyses of populations in institutions for the mentally retarded and the study of personality development in pre-adolescent mentally retarded children. Also included are some concepts of medical, psychological and sociological variables in the etiology of mental retardation.

This paper examines the internal and external stresses which accompany the gradual shift of responsibility from local boards of health to a possible eventual domination by the state health department. Fifty seven members of boards of health in 14 communities in one county in Eastern Pennsylvania were interviewed on the present functions of the local boards of health. Our finding suggests that the local board of health is not simply an organization. It is symbolic of a way of life in a community and it represents many things-a part of town, individualism, self-rule. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The organization American Political Science Association held its thirty-fifth annual meeting at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D. C., during December 28-30, 1939. American Orthopsychiatric Association Inc. will hold its seventeenth annual meeting at Boston, Massachusetts, during February 22-24, 1940. The organization National Conference on Family Relations (NCFR) held its second annual meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during December 26-27, 1939. Members are entitled to a year's subscription to the magazine "Living," beginning with its first issue in January 1940. The significant articles presented in Philadelphia will be published in later issues of "Living." The program was organized under the leadership of Adolf Meyer, the eminent psychiatrist, who is president of the NCFR. Conference committees discussed significant subjects of special interest, including the economic basis of the family, education for family living, eugenics and the family, family counseling, marriage and family law, marriage and family research, and youth and its problems.

The article summarizes the data regarding national conventions obtained from the questionnaires distributed to the delegates during the 1963 Council for Exceptional Children convention held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The information is viewed as essential in future planning for these conventions. The summarized responses stated that national conventions should be held yearly and should continue to be scheduled as is the current practice. There should be a balance between speakers and the fields of interest should be adequately covered. There were also several recommendations made by the respondents stating to always have a panel, to confine research papers, to plan more demonstrations and others.

The article reports that the Council for Exceptional Children and the education section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) will co-sponsor two sessions at the AAAS 129th Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 26,1962. Both sessions which was organized and will be chaired by Jack W. Birch, will be held in the North Garden Room of the Bellevue Stratford Hotel. Each will consist of only two papers to allow more time for presentation and discussion. The one dollar registration fee includes admission to all meetings, exhibits, and evening programs.

This article focuses on sociologist Carl Kelsey, who was born at Grinnell, Iowa, on September 2, 1870, was graduated from Iowa College in 1890, served as a teacher in the high school at Marshalltown, Iowa, entered the Andover Theological Seminary, Andover, Massachusetts, in 1892, and completed his studies there in 1895. After a year spent in social work in Helena, Montana, he went to Germany for two years, studying at the universities in Berlin and Gottingen. On his return, he again held social work positions in Buffalo, New York and Boston, Massachusetts and from 1898 to 1901 he was engaged in child welfare work in Chicago, Illinois, where he participated in the drafting of the Illinois Juvenile Court Law of 1899. After graduate study at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he received a doctorate in 1903 and an appointment as instructor in sociology. Promoted to assistant professor in 1904 and professor in 1906 he remained until his retirement as emeritus professor in 1941. From 1904 to 1913 be directed the summer sessions of the New York School of Philanthropy, in 1914 and 1915 he taught in the summer sessions at the University of California, and in 1923 in the summer session at the University of Washington.

The article focuses on the principal address prepared by William Russell, an education professor, during the actual day when the National Teachers' Association was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 26, 1857. The address was read by the presiding officer Thomas W. Valentine, president of the New York State Teachers' Association. Among the issues that have been dealt with by Russell through his address was the issue on the recognition of teaching as a profession. Another concern is that the teaching profession should maintain its own standards, through a teacher's certification, to set a high degree of professional excellence.

The article focuses on two driver education programs for physically and mentally handicapped individuals in Pennsylvania. Since 1961, the Pennsylvania Rehabilitation Center (PRC) has been giving disabled clients a driving training program in order for them to increase the feasibility of their employment. Various equipment used by the client at PRC includes a station wagon with dual controls, steering knob for one handed drivers, and a fork for quadriplegics. The Occupational Preparation School offers a program for mentally retarded male adolescents. These adolescents received 32 class hours on the driving textbook, watched 8 films on safe driving and spent some 6 hours on actual driving.

A random sample of 1,067 adult arrest cases for non-summary offenses was drawn from Philadelphia Police Department files and each case was traced through the court proceedings to she point of exit from the judicial system. Careful statistical analyses of the passage times between wrest and exit revealed that a set of differential equations could be used to model the passage of a defendant between major events in the judicial process. The fit of the data to the descriptive equations is excellent and allows the model so be used for quantitative as well as qualitative aspects of court research, planning, and evaluation. Following an introduction to this study and a description of the characteristics of the random sample, passage states of the court system are defined and explicit model equations describing defendant flow through the court are developed. The equation solutions are then explored as they relate to defendant passage times extracted from the random sample. Finally, potential uses of the model are discussed, some of which are currently being explored by the authors. A number of examples of interest to court research personnel as well as court administrators are cited. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents news clippings and announcements related to American Sociological Association (ASA). The members of the Committee on International Cooperation of the ASA stand ready to advise members of the ASA planning a foreign visit as to sociologists in other countries with mutual interests whom they might wish to contact. It is recognized that many ASA members will already have the contacts that they need. Should a member wish to use the services of the Committee on International Cooperation, he is requested to write to the Executive Officer of the Association, stating the countries he expects to visit, the estimated length of stay, and whether or not he is chiefly interested in becoming informed about certain topics and the activities of sociologists in a given country. The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania have announced that three awards, each of $5,000, may be made for distinguished work in the humanities and the social sciences, to appear as succeeding volumes in the series.

This article presents information related to sociological affairs. The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania announce three awards, each of $5,000, for distinguished works in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, which may appear as the first volumes of the Haney Foundation Series. All decisions pertaining to the granting of these awards and the publication of the winning entries will be determined by the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and will be final. The final date for submission of manuscripts is August 1, 1965. The Institute of International Education announces scholarship opportunities for graduate study in Asia, 1964-65. Scholarship awards in most cases cover tuition, books, travel and maintenance. For eligibility requirements and details regarding application, students should consult the Fulbright Program Adviser on campus, the Summaries of Study Opportunities and the brochure, "the U.S. Government Grants for Graduate Study Abroad, 1964-65". Through the kindness of Judge Thurman Arnold, the firm of Arnold, Fortas and Porter, 1229-19th Street, Washington D.C., has agreed, in the public interest, to act as legal counsel for the American Sociological Association.

This article analyzes migration and occupational mobility in Norristown, Pennsylvania. It attempts to utilize local data to determine the changing patterns of occupational mobility among the male members of the Norristown labor force over the last forty years and to determine what relationship, if any, exists between these patterns of occupational mobility. Norristown was able to meet either its increased or its changing labor force needs by attracting persons from outside the borough. On the other hand, once this outside supply ceased to be attracted, the labor force needs of the local area were met by a constant readjustment within the resident population. However, as this period of rapid expansion slowed and the economy became more stable, the attractiveness of Norristown as a place of economic opportunity diminished. As a result, the net rate of migration decreased to a point where by the 1930-1940 and the 1940-1950 decades the number of in-migrants just about balanced the number of out-migrants. During this period, however, while the economy may not have been expanding, its internal structure was changing as new types of jobs were created and old ones were eliminated.

In the Fall of 1952 a research project dealing with racial factors and law enforcement was begun under the auspices of the Greenfield Center for Human Relations, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. An attempt was made to discover the extent to which Negroes were being integrated into urban police forces, and to this end employment data were collected from our 20 largest cities. Another phase of the project dealt with an investigation of the relationship between race of offender and race of arresting officer. Still another area involved assignment policies and efficiency patterns as they pertained to the interrelation of Negro and white police; for example, the extent to which Negroes and whites were being assigned as partners to the same patrol car, and the interaction between white patrolmen and Negro commanders. The latter two phases were conducted in the City of Philadelphia and entailed the gathering of district arrest figures by race, as well as an extensive interviewing program with police commanders, Negro policemen, Negro community leaders, and editors of the Negro press.

In Philadelphia, where city and county are coterminous, there are three separate courts having jurisdiction over marriage and family matters. The Orphans Court has jurisdiction over the issuance of marriage licenses and their custody; the Court of Common Pleas has jurisdiction in matters pertaining to divorce, annulment, and legal separation; while the Municipal Court has jurisdiction over virtually all other family areas, including desertion and non-support, and child custody. Since 1950 was a Census year, the Municipal Court Statistician, Mr. Frank S. Drown, acted upon the suggestion that the data on desertion and non support for this year be assembled in greater detail, thus adding some new dimensions to his material. The divorce data were procured from the divorce testimony of cases heard in Court Number Six, one of the seven Common Pleas Courts in Philadelphia which handle divorce actions. In the assignment of the cases to the courts a mechanical numbering device is used which assures the randomness of cases among the courts.

The purpose of this study is to investigate problems which confronted the German settlers in 18th century Pennsylvania as far as they found reflection in the immigrant press. The period investigated covers about the third quarter of the 18th century. The study was begun in the expectation that trouble letters and news items would form the major source of information. However, this was not so. Trouble letters are not to be found in the German language press of that period, and the news items dealt mostly with foreign affairs and other questions of general political interest. Only the advertisements dealt with problems concerning the immigrant group to such an extent that an analysis seemed to promise satisfactory results. It is the plan of this study to present problems which beset the early German immigrant in the chronological order of their probable occurrence by means of an analysis of advertisements which arose out of the various situations consecutively confronting the newcomer. These situations are subsumed under these three headings indicating different phases in the immigrant's career: Upon Arrival, While Indentured, After Regaining Freedom.

The article presents information on the thirty-fourth annual meeting on sociology to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 27, 1939. From 10: 00 to 12: 00 A.M., a session titled "Division on Social Theory," by chairman of Indiana University John H. Mueller and other sessions viz. "Conflict of Ideologies and Wissenssoziologie," by Louis Wirth from University of Chicago; "The Emergence of the Concept Social Disorganization," by F.N. House from University of Virginia; "Criteria of Institutional Disorganization," by John F. Cuber of Kent State University, would take place. During the Division on Social Biology Session discussion will be on topics like "Rural Population Increase and Social Disorganization," "Workers, Migrants, and Jobs," "Sociological Aspects of the Agricultural Depression." From 1 :00 to 3 :00 P.M. Sections on sociology would cover community, family, political sociology, sociology of religion. From 3: 00 to 5: 00 P.M. a Joint Session Section on Social Statistics and the American Statistical Association would cover topics like, "Importance of Family Type Analysis for Expenditure Studies," "Family Composition Study of the Social Security Board."

The article discusses depression and pre-depression marriage rates in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Survey reports that most of the people in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania classified as of Russian nationality are Russian Jews. Seventeen census tracts were selected in which the native-born white of foreign parentage plus the foreign-born white predominated among the marriageable males, and in which Russians predominated overwhelmingly among all males in the tracts. In these tracts, 32,920 are marriageable males. In 16 of them, the marriage rate rose during the depression. In one, a tract of higher economic status, it fell slightly. The composite predepression rate for the 17 tracts was 35.3; the depression rate was 45.4. Marked variations seem to coincide with changes in the racial and nationality make-up of the marriageable males. So far as Philadelphia is concerned, the conclusion is inescapable that the presence in large proportions of Negroes, Russian Jews, and, to a lesser extent, of Italians, among the marriageable males of areas in the city, coincide with a rise in the marriage rates of those areas during the depression; while a preponderance of older native-white stock, and of northern and western European stock, coincides with a lowering of the rates.

Miss Hildreth, Assistant Professor of Education at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, New York, spoke as President of the Division of Educational Psychology, American Psychological Association, at The Pennsylvania State College, September 5, 1950. in her address she challenged teacher-education leaders to a reexamination of many commonly accepted assumptions and widely used procedures in the education of teachers. Her plea for an enlarged role for experiential learning throughout the entire period of preparation is backed by concise argument in this article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Much of the research regarding interfaith heterosexual socializing has been addressed to the problems surrounding interfaith marriage. Recently, while carrying out a study of attitudes and values of Jewish teenagers in a middle-sized city in Pennsylvania, the author had an opportunity to examine some of the social and attitudinal precursors of marriage presumably influencing subsequent intermarriage behavior. The information was obtained by means of a questionnaire developed originally by the American Jewish Committee, and adapted for use in the present research. Scattered throughout the questionnaire, whose overall purpose was to elicit responses regarding a wide range of topics related to Jewish identity, are a number of items designed specifically to yield some estimate of interfaith heterosexual attitudes among Jewish teenagers The primary concern of this article is with the results obtained through this group of items. The sample consisted of 225 Jewish teenagers who came to the Jewish Community Center on a Sunday in January, 1965, in response to mailed invitations.

Eleven year old children in educable (N=378) and regular (N=319) classes from the five county greater Philadelphia area were compared on the Slosson Intelligence Test for Children and Adults, an adaptation of the Test of Social Inference, an adaptation of the Temple Informal Reading Inventory, and the Auditory Reception and Verbal Expression subtests from the 1968 Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities. The distributions for the total sample were converted into T scores, and the children scoring above and below a T score of 45 (equivalent in our data to an IQ of 75) on each of the variables were identified. Applying Jastak and his colleagues' concept of multiple criteria suggests that 25 percent of the children in educable classes ma), be misplaced since they scored above the cutting point on at least four of the five criteria. Only 31 percent of those in the educable classes failed either four or five of the five criteria. The combination of a reading problem and a lower IQ is highly associated with educable placement. The findings support efforts to place most children found in educable classes into the regular classroom through the use of tutoring and resource rooms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the programmed instruction in written language for deaf children. The University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania has initiated a program of research in the special education and rehabilitation of the deaf. A report on some aspects of the first investigation in the program concerned with the written language of the deaf is presented in this article. The findings of the first study has led investigators to the studies reported concerned with programming as a technique in language instruction for the deaf children. The second study has examined the relative effects of programmed and conventional instruction on the acquisition of written language by young children with hearing disorders.

The article presents a report regarding the problems of advanced graduate training in special education by the committee on teacher education in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The study is concerned on the standards for universities interested in developing advanced graduate training in special education. The committee suggest that there should be a differentiation between a doctorate in special education and a doctorate in a more general field of special education. The committee has expressed that the requirements for the administration, teacher training and research should not vary.

The article presents a study on the adjustment and progress of mentally advanced children who were accelerated one year through the school age-grade placement in Pennsylvania. The regulation of the State Council of Education permits admission of children less than five years and seven months but over five years of age if recommended by a public school psychologist. Information used by psychologists in determining whether early admission should be recommended included evidence from interviews or other data of superior social maturity, emotional maturity and evidence from observation, interview and other data of reasonably normal height, weight and robust physical health.

One persistent explanation of the distribution of delinquency rates in urban areas relates concentrations of offenders to stress situations. Its advocates, usually coming from the fields of psychology or social work, reason that children in high delinquency rate areas are more likely to be disturbed, unhappy youngsters, especially in their experiences at home, than are those in low rate areas, and these different tension levels in urban areas are of major importance for explaining the difference in delinquency rates among those areas. If one uses scores from validated tests as measures of children's "emotional stability" and of their satisfaction with family life, and if one relates these scores to the delinquency rates of the census tracts in which the children live, the problem becomes one of determining whether variations in the test scores of emotional disturbance seem useful in accounting for the differences in delinquency rates. This problem was tested out in selected schools in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

This article reports on research programs conducted by the University of Pittsburgh's Management Research Center. David H. Blake is researching unions' responses to globalization, their strategy to counteract multinationalism, and their potential for organizing in different states. His study also focuses on union and management policies. Donald D. Bowen and Jacob P. Siegel finished their project, "Process and Performance: A Longitudinal Study of the Reactions of Small Task Groups to Periodic Performance Feedback." Edward Sussna and Harry N. Heinemann used capital investment analysis to compare investment costs and expected lifetime earnings in "Program Analysis of Community College Education of Health Manpower." They also completed "The Development of Program Analyses of Investments in Nursing Education."

The article cites a study on the construct validity of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA). This research was participated by 167 selected children with ages ranging from eight to nine years old coming from five schools in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The intelligence level of the participating children was within the normal range on standardized tests. There were two types of criterion tests involved in each ITPA subtest including tests that satisfy each specification of the Osgood model but differed in content and tests in which content and the psycholinguistic dimensions of level and process were held constant while channel was different.

Qualifications of the effective teacher of today are, and must be, described in terms of the task confronting the educational system in a democratic society. Here Mr. Eisenhower, President of The Pennsylvania State College, at State College, concisely describes some facets of the challenge which must be met by institutions engaged in the education of teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In many colleges throughout the nation we observe lip service to the concept of selective admission to teacher-education curricula. Everywhere we note a readiness to admit that the central problem to be solved in the professionalization of teaching is found in this challenge. But where do we find evidence of really courageous action? How many programs have gone beyond the ‘talking’ stage? Mr. Heiges, Dean of Instruction, State Teachers College, Indiana, Pennsylvania, reports progress in one institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the official charters granted to representatives of one division, one federation and twenty-two chapters of the Council for Exceptional Children in several states in the U.S. The division, federation and chapters includes, (1) Division for Children with Communication Disorders, (2) No. 458 Saskatchewan Federation, (3) No. 55 North Metropolitan Chapter, Michigan, (4) No . 91 Alamo Chapter, Texas, (5) No. 147 Charlotte Mecklenburg, Chapter, North Carolina, (6) No. 247 E. George Payne Chapter, New York, (7) No. 256 San Mateo County Chapter, Alberto, (8) No. 270 San Francisco State College Chapter, California, (9) No. 344 Shasta Chapter, California, (10) No. 346 Kappa Chapter, Pennsylvania, (11) No. 379 Central New Jersey Chapter, New Jersey, and (12) No. 414 Northwest Washington Chapter, Washington.

The article reports that the Board of Governors of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) will vote on the acceptance of the Council for Children With Behavioral Disorders as a CEC division at the Council's International Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The objectives of the proposed division are to promote the education and general welfare of children with behavioral disorders and to encourage and promote professional growth and research as a means of better understanding the problems related to children with behavioral disorders.

The article reports developments related to education in Pennsylvania. The State Council of Education has implemented a new regulations concerning the educational requirements for teacher certificates. It has been mandated that the college certificate to act as home and school visitor is valid for three annual school terms. The Northeastern Convention District of the Pennsylvania State Education Association held its second annual conference on teacher education and professional standards. The theme of the conference was "Strengthening the Profession of Teaching."

The article highlights the sixth annual Eastern Pennsylvania School Library Conference held at Millersville on April 1951. The event was sponsored by the State Teachers College at Millersville and Kutztown and recorded almost 300 people in attendance. Guidance Through the School Library was the program theme, and there were addresses by William H. Bristow, director of the Bureau of Curriculum Research, New York City Board of Education, Ashley Montagu, chairman of the Dept. of Anthropology, Rutgers University, and Amelia Munson, Librarian of the Teachers' Library, New York Public Library. A popular features of the conference was a panel discussion on the subject of publishing children's books.

The article reports on the certification regulations in Pennsylvania (PA). The State Council of Education has approved the programs of education and certification regulations for home and school visitors, that has been effective on September 1, 1951. The certification may be issued to an applicant who has earned a baccalaureate degree in an approved college with the following courses: (a) education (b) psychology (3) sociology (4) legal provisions. The higher qualifications for the preparation of public nurses have been effective on September 1, 1952. The state-standard limited certificate will be issued for 3-years upon satisfactory completion of the following: (a) graduation from an accredited 3-year-approved school of nursing curriculum (b) licensure as registered nurse in PA.

The article reports that Helen C. White, principal of Henry Burk Public School, is appointed as chairman of the International Council for Exceptional Children's meeting which will be held on July 1, 1957 at the National Education Association Centennial Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.