Discussing migration and migration patterns in the third world, this paper asserts that the failure of plans for controlling rural to urban migration is due to: lack of knowledge about the phenomenon; the favor given to one-dimensional interpretations stressing certain aspects of urban economies; and the implicit assumptions underlying most…

The composite American College Test (ACT) scores of 7,928 Nevada students (University of Nevada Office of Counseling and Testing data for the years 1968, 1970, 1971, and 1972) were used as a measure of district educational quality to investigate the relationships between educational quality and various factors hypothesized to have an effect upon…

Examines the past 30 years of research on gender. Discusses lessons learned: to study difference in context, make real comparisons, look for similarities as well as differences, examine variation within as well as between groups, investigate exceptions, note failure to find effects, allow equifinality, and move beyond gender as a category per se.…

Professional social work developed and evolved in the United States, although the traditions and notions about poverty were derived from England's experience and the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601. The first higher education program for social work in the United States was established in 1898. In Australia, the profession of social work took a…

Recent predictions suggest that because of the increase in the number of women acquiring gainful employment, work in the home should be divided in more egalitarian ways. Recent research, however, has shown that traditional male tasks were more likely to be shared than were traditional female tasks. This study investigated further the…

Tested was the hypothesis that among current urban residents those with farm family backgrounds will score lower on a scale of individual modernity than those with urban family backgrounds. Results indicate a significant effect of farm family background on modernity, even with controls for other theoretically significant variables. (AUTHOR/EDE)

This report studies patterns of violence among White youth, aged 15 to 24. Results show that youth death rates have been far higher in the rural West than in other areas of the country for most of the twentieth century. One possible cause may be the rural White ethos of the American West. (PS)

Focuses on assessing the effects of conflicting discussions within undergraduate dyads consisting of partners at the same or different levels of moral judgment. The experimental procedure consisted of: (1) an Opinion Questionnaire; (2) pretest Kohlberg interviews; (3) assignment to experimental and control conditions; (4) experimental discussion…

Reports on a comparison made between the videotaped behaviors of primary caretaker mothers and both primary and secondary caretaker fathers during face-to-face interactions with their four-month-old infants. (Author/SS)

Details a study undertaken to determine the amount and nature of discrepancies between Cataloging in Publication (CIP) entries and Library of Congress copy on a sample of 620 titles. Significant differences occurred on 24.1 percent of the sample. Recommendations are made for closer parity between Library of Congress' CIP Office and cooperating…

South Africa's new language policy recognizes 11 official languages. For a multilingual policy to succeed in education requires flexibility for provinces, schools, and classrooms to implement it to meet the needs of specific populations. (SK)

Compares two methodologies used by California State University, Los Angeles over the past two decades for formal strategic planning and discusses important lessons learned. (EV)

In the 1960s, companies were required to hire "different" workers. Trainers must understand what difference is and is not; they must be able to relate to it and to serve as role models on how to teach and live it. Knowing how to work with difference comes from personal experience and is generated by emotions and thoughts. (JOW)

Observed mothers and fathers (from 98 mother, father, and sibling pairs) interacting with children. When younger siblings received significantly higher negative emotionality ratings from both parents, parents enacted higher rates of differential treatment favoring younger sibling. When older siblings were rated as significantly more negative in…

A comparison of results of two studies regarding the actual practice of clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners revealed a shared core of advanced practice competencies as well as distinct differences between practice roles. (JOW)