This study explores the development of youth stratum consciousness in four groups of youth: white collar and blue collar students and nonstudents. The research employs a social movement paradigm suggesting an explicit developmental sequence from initial awareness through crystallized ideology and behavior expression. The data clearly provide…

Psychologists for Social Action showed how the American Psychological Association (APA) practices institutional racism by condoning employment practices of Lancaster Press, APA's major printer; a May 1973 postscript documents APA's continued hesitancy to influence its suppliers toward equal employment practices. (Author/JM)

The complex problem of discovering effective procedures for translating social science research into social policy and social action is examined through the history of the surgeon general's research program on television and social behavior. (Author)

This study focuses on the generational unit born out of the student protest movement and the long-range consequences of having been involved in a social movement. Three alternative sets of consequences were explored: maturation, dissillusionment, and generational conflict which creates a distinctive generational unit. The results strongly suggest…

An educational peace fair held at Clark University was successful in convincing individuals that they could do something to help prevent nuclear war; however, it revealed that the current peace movement was unable to portray convincingly a course of national action that could promote peace and justice. (Author/BJV)

Leftist students at the University of Puerto Rico are similar to New Left American students in father's political attitudes, religious attitudes, school enrollment, and intelligence. There exists an active leftist student organization which has grown in size and political prominence. (DM)

To investigate the quality of response to the personal interview, a survey was undertaken among Mexican-American migrant parents and children. Results demonstrate that the personal interview does not gather complete response. (Author/AM)

The historical roots of current child advocacy movements can be found in the period, characterized as the child-saving era, of political activities of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The historical discussion points to the contributions which developmental and social psychology can make to the study of children's rights.…

Notes that the social revolution which feminism represents can be sustained only by a through going intellectual revolution which first examines and then alters the way women are socially viewed. (Author/AM)

Notes that the values and beliefs that we hold as a nation have created institutions whose norms and rules create barriers to women's full and equal participation. Under the force of changing values of legislation, and of action by women, institutions will become tolerant of other than male norms. (Author/AM)

This paper presents recommendations concerning the reduction of child abuse and neglect. Some recommendations concern research toward further understanding the problem, while other recommendations concern policies that may help reduce the problem. (Author/EB)

Notes that the papers in this issue stress the need for a conceptual framework (historical, social, legal, and developmental) for defining the critical parameters involved in arriving at a sound basis for social policy and child advocacy. (Author/AM)

After a review of various nonmedical intervention procedures for child maltreatment, this paper examines specific, empirically evaluated psychological intervention treatments. Methodological and ethical issues concerning outcome research on maltreatment intervention are also discussed. (Author/EB)