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Presents excerpts of papers presented to the IRRA during its winter 1966 meetings in San Francisco, California. Processing employment discrimination cases; Effect of economic change on the Michigan labor force; Technological displacement as a micro phenomenon.

Presents the schedule for the 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association at the Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan on December 27 to 30, 1970.

The article provides information on the program of the Eighteenth National Meeting of the Operations Research Society of America held in Detroit, Michigan from October 10 to 12, 1960. Thomas Killian of the Office of Naval Research delivered his keynote address in the first day. Many papers were presented as part of the meeting. In his paper, J. E. Mulligan stated a basic management problem in war gaming projects. Other topics discussed at the meeting include military operations research, logistics, management control systems, and information retrieval.

Presents a reply to the commentary of John W. Pawling regarding the author's paper "Early Perception of a High Plain in Michigan." Summary of the main points of the paper; Examination of the reviewer's comments; Contentions on Pawling's claims.

The article presents information on the preliminary program of the thirty-third annual meeting of the American Sociological Society to be held at Hotel Book Cadillac, Detroit, Michigan, from December 28-30, 1938. Papers to be presented on 28th include: "European Expansion and the Historical Process," by Robert E. Park, University of Chicago; and "The Negro in the State of Bahia, Brazil," by Donald Pierson, Fisk University. Papers to be presented on 29th include: "Social Participation and Social Intelligence," by F. Stuart Chapin, University of Minnesota; "Motivation of Human Actions in the Light of Time-Budget Data," by Pitirim A. Sorokin, Harvard University; and "Some Phases of Personality Development in Communities of White-Indian-Negro Mixture," by Guy B. Johnson, University of North Carolina. Papers to be presented on 30th include: "Objective Social Conditions, Social Status, and Corporate Organization," by Edward A. Shils, University of Chicago, and Herbert Goldhamer, Stanford University: and "The Professions and Social Structure," by Talcott Parsons, Harvard University.

This article reports on research programs conducted by Michigan State University's School of Labor and Industrial Relations. The Master of Labor and Industrial Relations program has options in collective bargaining and employment relations and in manpower policies and programs. The faculty's work can be categorized as manpower, labor-management relations, comparative and international industrial relations, organizational behavior and personnel management, social structure and community organization, and social and industrial psychology. Michael E. Borus studied the benefits of retraining in Indiana and the quality of information obtained in interviews. Einar Hardin studied control groups in manpower programs, methods of economic evaluation, and clerical worker salary differences. Subbiah Kannappan focused on the impact of educational expansion on equal opportunity.

This paper shows that public administration cases can provide data to serve as a basis for behavioral theories. It analyzes the distributions of specified meetings across time quartiles in the first seven chapters of R. J. Mowitz and D. S. Wright's Profile of a Metropolis. Findings can be divided into intercase stabilities that exemplify general characteristics of the Detroit decisional process, such as heightened meeting rates in the fourth quartile and a predominance of exclusively governmental meetings in all four periods; and variations that stem from the differing substantive issues described, such as the extent of early activity by nongovernment groups or the frequency of mass meetings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on the Eighteenth National Meeting of the Operations Research Society of America held in Detroit, Michigan from October 10 to 12, 1960. The mayor of Detroit delivered his welcome address in the first day. As part of the meeting, there were many sessions held discussing various topics including military operations research, logistics, management control systems, and information retrieval. George G. O'Brien of Touche, Ross, Bailey & Smart served as chairman of the meeting.

This article focuses on the political campaign in Detroit, Michigan that openly exploited the issues of race and religion. The character of this campaign is attested by statements rendered by both candidates following the election. Edward J. Jeffries, elected for his fourth two year term, declared: "This has been the most vicious, nasty campaign that I have ever witnessed. Many charges and countercharges have been hurled. Racial and religious issues have been raised." Richard Frankensteen, vice president of the United Automobile Workers-Congress lndustrial Organization (CIO), his defeated opponent, released a longer statement. He said in part: "Because the election which has now been decided was a unique one, and because the campaign was unusually bitter, I do feel that I should say something to all the people of Detroit, to those who supported me, and to those who did not." Various interpretations have been and will be made of the result of this election. Conservative papers have generally viewed it as the evidence of a swing to the right. They have pointed out that in Detroit the "left wing" possessed an ideal opportunity; that of the city's 1,800,000 citizens the CIO claimed a membership of 350,000. They have failed to mention that the Detroit and Wayne County Federation of Labor supported Jeffries. Moreover, they have not pointed out that division in the CIO prevented anything resembling unanimous do support of Frankensteen.

This paper discusses the relation of urbanization with group participation. This paper is a report of the data obtained in one metropolitan community which bear on this relation. The data were collected by the Detroit Area Study. Interviews were obtained from a cross-section sample representative of the Detroit Area population. The sample size was 749 and was a probability sample selected by the method known as "area sampling." Findings indicate that: a majority of the population had formal group membership. However, membership was neither markedly intensive nor extensive for most organizational members, and at least one-third of the population had no such membership. Formal group membership and participation were not randomly distributed throughout the population, but were related to what are considered to be some basic and fundamental differentiating characteristics in society. In the population studied informal group association was well-nigh universal with only a small segment entirely devoid of such association. Relatives emerged as the most important type of informal group association. Formal and informal group participation were found to vary positively together.

The first part of this paper discusses a few important questions which social scientists should consider when faced with the problem of communicating with the general public and with special publics. The second part describes some recent efforts of the University of Michigan's social research laboratory, the Detroit Area Study, to feed back findings to Detroit and the nation. S. Joseph Fauman is Director of Community Relations and Research for the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit. Harry Sharp is Director of the Detroit Area Study of the University of Michigan. Once it is agreed that the findings of social science ought to be available to the community, this question arises as how can the researcher describe his activities to the public in such a way that they will be "generally understandable and properly informative"? Shall research findings be disseminated to the public at large via press releases on the theory that if the facts and conclusions are made available? This generally results in an increased awareness of the value of social research and a greater willingness to cooperate with and support the academic researcher.

This paper describes the impact of a professional social workers' strike on graduate students at the School of Social Work, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Comments on the paper "Early Perception of a High Plain in Michigan," by Bernard C. Peters that was previously published in the 1972 issue of "Annals of the Association of American Geographers." Inappropriateness of the paper's title; Ambiguity of the topic under discussion; Failure of Peters to document the reality of the interior plateau.

What are the effects on retail sales of a newspaper strike? This article discusses the sales effects of the 134-day Detroit newspaper strike of 1964, with respect to the various cities within the Detroit Metropolitan Area. This case history leads to some interesting hypotheses as to The effects of newspaper strikes on individual consumers and retailers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reports on research programs conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research (ISR). The Institute consists of four units: the Survey Research Center, the Research Center for Group Dynamics, Center for Research on Utilization of Scientific Knowledge, and the Center for Political Studies. The ISR research project, Economic Behavior Program, has been directed by George Katona since its development in 1946. ISR collects data through an annual Survey of Consumer Finances, quarterly surveys of consumer attitudes, and the Surveys of Consumer Finances.

Christians from Middle Eastern European nations have been less inclined than Muslims to identify with Arab nationalist causes, but a growth of Arab identity has been observed among Middle Eastern Christian immigrants in recent years. Recent immigrants are more likely to identify with Arab nationalism than immigrants who have been in the United States for some time. This paper analyzes religious and nationalist identity in a Chaldean Iraqi community in Detroit, Michigan. It rejects the notion that the earlier immigrants' nationalist sentiments have been "lost" through assimilation, and suggests that the increased nationalist identity, of recent immigrants is due in, part to a, increase in urbanism and bureaucratic participation in the modern Middle East. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the acetylene reduction in relaxation to levels of phosphate and fixed nitrogen in Green Bay. This paper reports data collected during the summer of 1971 in the southern part of Green Bay of Lake Michigan. This study undertook to characterize acetylene reduction and nutrient levels throughout the summer. Water samples were collected. Phytoplankton characteristically increase rapidly in the spring. A high soluble phosphate concentration in the water preceded all major increases in the population of heterocystous, nitrogen-fixing blue-green algae.

The ‘high plain’ shown on many early maps of Michigan was not a fanciful creation, but reality as perceived by early travelers. Their perception of a high plain was as much the result of a change in vegetation as of an actual change in landforms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]