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Durkheim popularized the term anomie and stimulated a great deal of theoretical discussion and research. Subsequently, Srole constructed interview schedule items to measure Personal anomia, and his items have been used by a large number of investigators. Many of these researchers implicitly assumed unidimensionality while others explicitly tested for it by Gutttman scaling and factor analysis techniques. However, none of these researchers repeated Srole's latent class analysis. In this paper, representative samples of households in the Los Angeles SMSA and in a "suburban type" city responded to the anomia items as part of larger investigations. The responses were subjected to factor analysis and Guttman scaling for a test of unidimensionality, and latent class analysis as a test of scalability and typological construction. For both samples, the responses did not meet the generally accepted criterion of a "pure" Guttman scale. As a result of a principal axis factor analysis only one common factor was extracted in both samples. The Green solution was used for latent class analysis and the result was the minimum one would expect from a unidimensional set of items, or two classes--the anomic and eunomic. Major conclusions are that it cannot be assumed an item, or universe of items, will foster the same results in different universes or at different times, even under somewhat similar modes of analysis. If no tests for unidimensionality and scalability are made, gradations of the Guttman scale type appear to be contra-indicated and polarization appears to be more appropriate for the Srole items. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information of various developments and happenings in the educational front as of June 1, 1943. The Office of War Information, Educational Services Division is prepared to give a variety of services to adult discussion groups and to college and university student war organizations. The Northern Division of the Pacific Sociological Society held an abbreviated session in Salem, Oregon on April 6. John C. Evans, Superintendent of Oregon State Mental Hospital, was the host for the luncheon. More than 40 people, including Governor Earl Snell, administrators of state institutions, and other state officials, attended this noon session. The American Institute of Family Relations at Los Angeles is offering a summer workshop in family life education at Mills College, Oakland, California, from June 28 to July 16. The Association of American Colleges has established a Commission on Wartime Placement of College Faculties. It is the purpose of this commission to assist faculty members whose services will not be required by their institutions to secure posts in which they may aid in the war effort.

In a previous issue of the "American Sociological Review," the writer demonstrated the positive correlation between the relative economic status of various areas in Los Angeles, California, and the avenge denominational per capita wealth of churches located in the areas. Two tentative conclusions were drawn from this relationship, Protestantism. It was discovered further that the distribution of Los Angeles Protestant churches did not correspond to the distribution of population. In Los Angeles, the lower the economic status of an area, in general, the more churches there were per capita. It was suggested that this distribution, if not atypical, might be yet another manifestation of the operation of economic class considerations in American Protestantism. In the above-described study one important question remained unanswered: To what extent were the data in Los Angeles unique and therefore unreliable for generalization? This question is answered in part by the present paper, which is a report of a study of Indianapolis churches.

The author has attempted to categorize a set of suicide notes according to their formal aspects. The perspective adopted is that of the actor, what he must experience, how he must view these experiences, the social constraints restraining him from suicide, how he succeeds in overcoming them, and finally, the precautions he takes to prevent the recurrence of a similar set of circumstances after his death. The paper is based primarily on an analysis of 112 suicide notes of persons who succeeded in suicide in the Los Angeles area. Insights gained by the author through his work with adolescent suicide attempters and their parents also aided in the formulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the problem of differentiation of an ethnic group. According to authors of the article, the Jewish minority is well constituted for the analysis. The group is set in a complex metropolitan situation. There are varying degrees of isolation of and cultural differences within the group and there is a lack of direct measures of numbers and demographic characteristics of the population. These circumstances make the task of differentiation a precondition to intensive analysis. The basic instrument of analysis is an urban typology, framed by a tri-dimensional social space bounded by status, urbanization and segregation, which are based on census tract data. It is concluded that the ethnic institutional services are located with minor exceptions in the identifiable neighborhoods. The plotting of synagogues according to the social rank of their locations in Los Angeles, California, showed a bi-modal distribution. The Orthodox and Reformed components in the distribution were fairly sharply separated and Orthodoxy was negatively related to status.

The article discusses the process by which prices are set for the egg market in Los Angeles, California at the time of publication. The author notes the role of the Produce Exchange of Los Angeles in determining egg prices. A chart depicting exchange quotations of prices is presented. Elements of pricing determined by egg size and grade are also discussed. According to the author, the United States Department of Agriculture plays a role in the price of eggs by quoting prices of case lots delivered to retail stores and restaurants.

The article reports on retail sales and store analysis in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills and Hollywood, California. Censuses from the years 1929, 1933 and 1935 included information from all three geographic regions, despite different populations and business prosperity. A chart is presented which tracks the total market share of sixteen regions within the entire Los Angeles market. Relative gains and losses in sales volume changes are presented. Additional analysis and charts seek to evaluate the changing patterns between downtown Los Angeles and the county as a whole, potentially suggesting a decentralized retail trade industry.

Many artistic organizations are not in business for profit. Almost all such organizations end up with a deficit at the end of the year. This article is an exploration of the union role in the management of performing and visual arts enterprises in Los Angeles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an extension of a study on social class and income in the article "Corrolates of Buying Behavior: Social Class vs. Income," by James H. Myers, Roger R. Stanton, and Arne F. Haug appearing in the October 1971 issue of "Journal of Marketing." The study presented in this article extends the earlier work to include certain durable goods items and select services. The methodology of the study is discussed, as well as the items studied. The findings of the study are examined as they relate to social class and income.

This article presents information regarding the 1963 annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. The meeting will be held in Los Angeles, California on August 26 to 29. August 26 will be devoted to meetings arranged by the Sections of the Association. Communications on contributions to the program for that day should be addressed directly to the chairmen of the sections. The regular sessions on the 27th, 28th, and 29th of August will be arranged by chairmen appointed by the president of the Association and the 1963 Program Committee except that in those fields where there is a Section, the Committee has collaborated with the Section Chairman. Besides the sessions and chairmen listed in this article, there will be four plenary sessions devoted to the discussion of intellectual and scientific frontiers of sociology and to its contribution to social life. The regular sessions are in general charge of Leonard Broom while Lewis Coser will have general charge of the plenary sessions.

Presents news briefs on several universities and colleges in the United States as of January 1974. Election of Doris Cook to the National Council of Β Α Ψ; Retirement of Professor A.B. Carson from the University of California, Los Angeles; Promotion of Gene McClung and Robert J. West at the University of South Florida; Staff members at the Georgia State University that have joined the Department of Accounting.

The article presents information about developments related to accounting as of July 1966. University of Alabama posted news briefs on A.J. Penz. Penz spent the fall semester of 1965 in Peru on a project of accounting and control training for small firms. University of Southern California posted their brief on A.N. Mosich. Mosich has been appointed as an examiner by the California State Board of Accountancy. Briefs from Stanford University informs that Charles T. Horngren has been appointed as professor of accounting, Robert K. Jaedicke has been promoted to professor and appointed co-director of the business doctoral program. Robert T. Sprouse conducted two three-day seminars in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, in June 1966. R. Gene Brown will participate in a management development program in Johannesburg during August. Gerald Wentworth has been appointed joint coordinator of the International Center for Management Education at Stanford for the coming year. The program brings about fifty professors of business to Stanford from developing countries for a period of eight months.

A close contest for the mayoralty of Los Angeles in 1969 between the incumbent and a strongly supported Negro candidate is the context for a structural analysis of the areal pattern of the vote. A factor model is used to define four major patterns of interrelations in a wide range of socioeconomic and voting variables. Each isolates significant aspects of the voting pattern, but they are unable to determine clearly the reasons for the defeat in the final election of the Negro candidate who gained a substantial lead in the primary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The functional composition of three ethnically based samples of retail and service establishments in Los Angeles County, California, corresponded closely to the pattern that might be predicted on the basis of income, available physical facilities for shopping, and subcultural consumer preferences. Functional diversification was inversely related to income. Interethnic differences were particularly pronounced in the food, financial service, professional service, and vacancy categories at the two-digit level. The food, eating and drinking, personal service, and ‘other retail’ categories exhibited significant variations at the four-digit level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This report is based upon a pilot study of differences in social participation between sample populations in two Los Angeles areas, that is census tracts 35 and 63. The two tract populations are nearly identical with respect to two of the indices, social rank and segregation and differ on the third, urbanization. The field study included scheduled interviews on the participation of adult members of households in formal organizations, neighboring, cultural events, visiting, domestic activities, the mass media, the kin group, and other social structures. The low-urban sample differed sharply and consistently in the direction of more participation in the local community. The low-urban sample had a higher rate of membership and participation in formal organizations other than church, and, more important, a larger proportion of their organizations were local in nature. Furthermore, the members of formal organizations to which the low-urban sample belonged were more apt to live in the immediate local community. In the high-urban sample other members were most apt to be scattered over the metropolis as a whole.

At the present stage of sociological research it amounts to a cliché to observe that social class lines are hardening in the U.S. But the degree and type of visible class consciousness is another question. About such matters less is known. In the present study, an effort has been made to determine the actual extent to which class consciousness in an economic sense appears to manifest itself ecologically among certain Protestant church denominations. It is a matter of common observation that church edifices representing denominations known to be wealthy are frequently found in upper-class residential areas, just as it is known that "store front" churches are located in disorganized neighborhoods. But the real extent of this phenomenon has apparently not yet been measured. This article reports an attempt to make such a measurement, using as data all Protestant churches of Los Angeles as representatives of their denominations. The procedure has been as follows: using a six-fold scale ranging from "wealthy" to "below average," was determined for the geographical area surrounding each white, non-Mexican Protestant church existing in Los Angeles, California in 1940.

This article seeks to investigate sources of influence on the Junior College Board vote for the Junior College Board of Trustees in Los Angeles, California in April 1969. Multiple regression analysis was used so that the independent impact of a number of potential factors can be estimated. Important cues for the voters in the election seem to have been endorsement by the area's largest newspaper, the persuasions of a conservative campaign group, the appeal of a familiar name and, at least for Mexican-Americans, ethnic identification. It must be stressed that one important cue, incumbency, was entirely missing in the election and that another, party identification, could play only a very minor and indirect role, if any. In elections in which these factors are involved and also in those in which campaigning by the candidates become more visible, it is to be expected that the effects of order, name and ethnic identification and newspaper endorsement would diminish greatly. The results of the study suggest that the outcome is likely to be determined by authoritative endorsement, the activities of small organized groups, various semi-relevant cues associated with the names of candidates and the order in which their names appear on the ballot.

This article reports on a new kind of group instrument using modern crisis theory in treatment methodology and structural design that emerged from a six-month pilot study at a crisis service In Los Angeles. Now, a significantly larger number of people can be offered definitive crisis help than was possible previously. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents abstracts pertaining to area analysis. They include "The Number of Businesses by Size & Kind in the Los Angeles Area," "The Planned Community," by Morris L. Sweet and Finn B. Jensen, and "Plant Location and Community Changes," by Kenneth E. Merrill and David L. Ryther.

Skid rowers are members of a group made up of marginal men, living in geographically segregated, low-income, Skid Row communities, who are involved in a chronic cycle of unemployment, dependence on welfare assistance, alcoholism, vagrancy, and so forth. The Career Clinic in Los Angeles, California, a unique joint effort of the religious, private, and public sectors, represents an innovative approach to solving this major problem. The process begins with a referral of the skid rower to the employment unit of the Unattached Men's Center by his caseworker following application for relief. After sociological data for research analysis are obtained from him, he is asked to report to the Career Clinic, which is located a short distance from the welfare agency. There he is asked to take a battery of psychological and attitudinal tests. Additional information is gathered for future research analysis through the use of standard psychological instruments: the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, California Psychological Inventory, Edward's Personal Preference Schedule, and the Strong Vocational Blank.