Part I of two parts. Considers interrelationships of social and population planning and discusses reasons for continued high birth rates in some human populations. Indicates living space, not food supply, will ultimately limit population growth. (AL)

Examines the plight of migrant workers who travel from developing to developed nations in search of jobs and a higher standard of living. Maintains that migrants, especially when they are a visible minority, are often victims of individual and institutional prejudice. Identifies Sweden as a country which has developed widespread government aid…

Discusses the emotional impact of divorce on children and adolescents and, after reviewing the literature and findings from a five-year longitudinal study, describes the implications of the spiraling divorce rate for practice, research, and social policy. (Author)

Reviews prior research on homelessness and describes what remains to be done. Calls for greater attention to the socioeconomic causes of homelessness, its image in the media, and public attitudes toward the problem. (DM)

Examines the life of W.E.B. Du Bois, looking at his autobiography and his 3-year stay in Berlin as a graduate student from 1892-1894. Uncovers an excellent example of learning outside of one's own culture through the series of social, political, and ideological encounters Du Bois experiences, reflects on, and remembers. (Author/VWL)

A conceptual model for teaching and practicing social policy is presented, that distinguishes between social policy practice at macro- and micro-levels in order to sort out functional tasks, skills, and the consequent knowledge base. Suggestions are made regarding organizing social policy practice content in both the class and the field.…

As a result of the impact of economic industrialization on the U.S. economy, the extended family in the United States has fragmented; nuclear families have lost contact with sources of parenting information and, increasingly, when parenting problems have occurred, the assistance of social service agencies has been requested. The lack of parenting…

A typology of time-related concepts is put forth as a step toward the building of comprehensive theory in aging. The concepts derive from statistics (age, cohort, period effects), the theoretical writings of Sorokin (life course role sequences, durations and rates), the writings of Riley (on the synchronization of life course socialization and…

PROPOSED IS THE CREATION OF THREE NEW, INTERDEPENDENT MECHANISMS OF CITY GOVERNMENT--ELECTED DISTRICT COUNCILS, A DIVISION OF SOCIAL PLANNING, AND A BUREAU OF SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY. BECAUSE THE FUNCTION OF EACH UNIT IS CLOSELY INTERRELATED THEY SHOULD OPERATE IN CLOSE COLLABORATION. THIS REORGANIZED ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE WOULD BE ABLE TO DEAL…

This extensive bibliography contains a listing of 1,095 research topics completed by graduate students in the field of planning during the period 1965-70. Citations are organized into separate sections for dissertations, theses, and thesis alternatives. Within each section, entries are listed alphabetically by author's name. Data for the…

Comprehensive planning, defined as the work of those who engage in efforts, within a delimited geographic area, to identify and order the physical, social, and economic relationships of that area, is discussed in the four sections of this paper. Section I, Introduction, describes what "planning" and "comprehensive planning" are. In Section II, Why…

One hundred eighty 4-man groups (90 of men and 90 of women) using 3 types of net (All-Channel, Wheel and Circle) under 3 conditions (Planning Period (PP), Rest Period (RP) and Control) were run in a single session with 5 complex problems to determine whether a single 2-minute planning period after solution of the first problem would result in…

Article described the efforts of Apeldoorn to assist in the evolution of a new methodology of local administration, viz, that of democratic integrated planning, i.e., "...to provide local authorities with certain means to help them to rationalize their cultural policy". (Author/RK)

Examines the experience of Special Services for Children, a New York City public agency which has a specific department charged with carrying out agency planning on a formal, systematic, overall basis. (BR)

American patterns of cultural growth are sometimes said to be characterized by "crash programs"--indifference or neglect followed by a crash emphasis on air and water pollution, urban decay and ghettos, population growth, etc. Considers the neglect-and-crash approach as it relates to three areas within the field of education. (Author/RK)