New conceptual approaches affecting academic disciplinary organization and social science research are evaluated. Few changes since the late 1940s are said to be significant enough to alter the general shape of the social sciences. (GC)

In this article the author speculates about the future of research, methodology, and education in the social sciences. He calls for a greater consensus among social scientists in regard to terminology and research operations. (GC)

Interdepartmental and interdisciplinary trends in social science education and research are projected for the coming decades. The five social sciences are envisioned as maintaining separate curricula through sharing many of the same concerns. (GC)

The author interprets the way worldwide changes have shaped our thinking. He then discusses institutional responses to emerging trends, especially in the social sciences. He examines interdisciplinary collaboration and concludes that more productive efforts will be found in centers and interdepartmental organizations. (GC)

Discusses the role of the social sciences in applying the knowledge they contain to the illumination of the problems, values, and concerns of society. (GC)

International trends in the social sciences since the 1952 establishment of the International Social Science Council (ISSC) are reviewed. Developments at the level of theory and methodology and interdisciplinary links among social sciences are evaluated. Some implications for the future are noted. (GC)

The women's movement may show us some of the changes to come in the content and form of the social sciences. Among issues which will be increasingly addressed are those of work and the family, personal growth and social responsibility, and the emotional component in rational, objective, and scientific enterprise. (Author/GC)

Social science researchers should combine theoretical interests and methodological competence with applied concerns and knowledge of institutional settings that must serve as social laboratories. Social science education should prepare researchers along these lines. (Author/GC)

Predicts that the Carter administration will differ from the Ford one chiefly by resumption of a quasi-populist program of governmental initiative along fairly standard or at least predictable lines: health insurance improvements, more outlays on health research, welfare scheme modification, and more support for general education. There is little…

Notes and predicts persistence in the nature of the links between social scientists and the polity, and speculates that we may also be on the threshold of basic alterations in, or at least challenges to, these traditional arrangements. This prognosis is essentially hopeful for those of us who are social scientists and socialists. At issue is how…

Argues that as important as what the Carter administration will do is what the Carter victory has already done: it decisively ended the Nixon era in American society. The Carter administration will attempt to synthesize the striving for excellence of the Nixon era and the push for participation of the King era. (Author/JM)

The author sees a serious need to encourage training and research activities relating to long-term normative change in social, economic, political, and cultural systems, especially of transnational and global scales. He makes the judgment that we are in the midst of a transition process as fundamental as the convulsive process that accompanied the…

Concludes that the idea of practice is so important at this time because the notion of practice (of the fusion of theoretical practical knowledge, of the public and private life, of expert and citizen) is threatening to the institutions and groups whose continued dominance rests in part on their privileged claim to truth: the large corporations,…

Discusses contributions of E. O. Wilson and others to the development of sociobiology. Considers sociobiology's origins, the study of social behavior, the inclusive fitness theory of behavior, haplodiploidy, reciprocal altruism, ecological perspectives, species richness, social evolution, societal explanations for infanticide, sociobiology and the…

Sociobiology, although in its formative stage, is the most promising paradigm for bridging the gap between biology and the social sciences. (Author/AM)