Contends that there have been three stages or eras of social science: the philosophic, the scientific, and the as yet unnamed present era. Maintains that the three eras match, in chronological development, the successive periods of Marxian thought and the three different views of utopia offered by Thomas More, Friedrich Engels, and Karl Mannheim.…

Tests two models of Black offender/White victim (BW) rape, using data from 443 rape cases. Results did not support the normative model which correlates BW rape with increased social interaction between Black men and White women and only partially supported the conflict model that correlates BW rape with increased Black politicization. (Author/AM)

Reviews causes of current despair within the field of sociology. Maintains that further creative, theoretical work is likely to happen in such areas as the micro-macro connection, an integrated theory of organizations, networks and markets, and sex and gender. Advocates increased efforts to relate empirical research and small-scale theories to the…

Discusses recruitment to religious cults and sects from the point of view of social science research and a more recent approach which argues that interpersonal bonds between members and potential recruits are the essential element. (Author/DB)

Describes paths in research and theory development which will reconstitute the relevance of each for the other and sociology for society. Maintains that a theory of purposive action for individuals must be the foundation for macrosocial theory. (JDH)

This study, involving 518 Wisconsin high school graduates and their brothers, found little evidence that failure to control family background leads to upward bias in estimates of the effect of schooling on occupational status. (Author/RM)

Discusses why the probability model of integration (P-type measure), which describes the relative isolation of groups, predicts perceptions of segregation more accurately than the more commonly used index of dissimilarity. The P-type measure is applied in a reexamination of intercity differences and temporal changes in segregation between 1960 and…

Discusses the difference of opinion between evaluators over the correct interpretation of the results of an experimental program aimed at reducing recidivism of ex-convicts by providing them with a monthly monetary allowance. This article explicates this difference and attempts to resolve it. (Author/AM)

The structure of a society's status hierarchy is usually investigated through the analysis of occupational mobility, that is, the association of fathers' and sons' occupations. This research study introduces another indicator that is conceptually similar but empirically distinct: the association of husbands' and wives' occupational statuses.…

Presents a study of the causes leading to the adoption of commission and managerial administrative structures and their subsequent abandonment by 267 of America's largest cities during the period 1900-1942. Event-history methods of analysis are used. (Author/AM)

Two models of political mobilization are examined--the developmental model (stressing class-based dynamics) and the reactive ethnicity model (stressing the importance of ethnic ties in addition to class-based dynamics). Results show ethnic ties to be important but suggest that a better understanding of the sociological context of economic…

Demonstrates the value of dynamic analysis of event-history data for the sociological study of change in categorical variables. An event history records dates of events that occur for some unit of analysis (i.e., an individual's marital or employment status, or outbreaks of riots or wars). (Author/AV)

Using data from a sample of 25 U. S. metropolitan cities, this study investigates the relationship between interracial marriage and violent interracial crime. Results show a positive relationship, one which was predicted by Blau's macrosociological theory of social structure. (Author/JDH)

Comparing human ecological and Marxist approaches discloses numerous parallels and significant differences. Both take a holistic approach and emphasize technology, but ecological theory emphasizes the openness of systems. Gaps in ecological theory are revealed, and some research problems to close the gaps in theory are presented. (Author/IS)

Examines how positive and negative selective incentives are analytically related to collective action and social movements. Examples are presented of many types of collective action and social movements including labor strikes, prevention of epidemics through immunization, political and educational policy formation, and landlord/tenant…