This book studies characteristics and needs of the aging in an attempt to relate the resources of the local church to the needs of older persons. It assumes that older persons have many individual needs which are not subject to large scale solutions and must therefore be approached locally. The purpose of this book is to deal with these more…

This monograph reviews and analyzes relevant decisions dealing with the control of student activities by public school authorities. The report focuses on recent court cases that reaffirm, amplify, or extend entrenched constitutional and common law principles undergirding the public educational system in the United States. After setting the legal…

As a part of the Final Report of the National Study of American Indian Education, this document presents data related to suicides among Indians. Its purpose is to contribute to a better understanding of the problems of Indians in this society. An overall comparison of Indian and non-Indian suicide rates indicates no difference with reference to…

Rural and urban seniors from all-black high schools in Louisiana were given group-administered questionnaires to determine the influence of 5 primary contacts on the formation of occupational aspirations of youth. The 5 primary contacts generally acknowledged to have some influence were parents, relatives, friends, teachers, and guidance…

A 1-year study was completed in August of 1969 by the University of Alabama on procedures to identify the children of migrant workers and of former migrant workers in 6 school systems in Alabama (Blount, Cullman, Pike, and Washington County School Systems and Demopolis and Elba City School Systems). The report of this study (1) includes detailed…

Several determinants of the growth of bureaucracy in schools have been isolated. Proliferation of bureaucratic rules is directly related to the size of the school, but inversely related to socioeconomic status of the students. Also, as the proportion of female teachers in a department rises, the number of rules increases, even though more female…

This study investigated the degree to which mothers of 4-year-old children placed specific behavior of their children in a meaningful context and whether such degree was a function of the socioeconomic status (SES) of the mother and/or of the particular situation involved. The subjects were 137 mother-child pairs of Negroes, who ranged in SES from…

The analysis of the factors affecting job mobility and migration in a high income rural community is based on a model developed in this document which proved to be a generator of fruitful hypotheses. The study of the Brookston, Indiana, community revealed that job-mobile individuals tended to be younger, had lower incomes, and had lower social…

This study investigates the educational participation of adults from the learner's viewpoint. Purposes were to develop a technique to determine the extent of adult participation; to apply the technique to determine the underlying structure among activities and patterns of participation; and to examine the relationship of selected demographic…

The purpose of Howard University's pre-"war on poverty" experiment, operating a 2 year, full day nursery school for disadvantaged 3-year-olds, was to determine whether and to what extent a standard nursery school program in which parents are involved could help children in their later schooling. This booklet gives an overall view of the…

The purpose of this paper is to assess the societal benefits of outdoor recreation and to determine the relationship of social stratification to utilization of outdoor recreation facilities. Conclusions are that many of America's outdoor recreation sites are located at considerable distances from population concentrations and require substantial…

The purposes of this 1969 study were to determine: (1) if differences existed in the self concepts of Negro, Anglo, and Spanish American adolescents and (2) the extent to which these differences were influenced by ethnic group membership, socioeconomic position, and sex. The sample for the study was made up of 425 Anglo, 40 Negro, and 142 Spanish…

Backgrounds of rural medical doctors were compared with those of osteopathic doctors, metropolitan medical doctors in general practice, and metropolitan doctors in specialties in order to establish factors contributing to the unbalanced distribution of physicians in society. Interview data were obtained from all physicians in a 20-county rural…

Statistics on job tenure of American workers are presented which are based on a January, 1973, survey conducted by the Bureau of the Census. Three tables are presented: length of employment of workers on their current job, by sex; median years on current job, by sex, age, and race; and median years on current job, by occupation, industry, and sex.…

Recognizing that interest is essential to motivation, this study was designed both to identify and describe the content interest patterns and media preferences (print and television) of middle-grade children and to determine any relationship between these interests and sex, race, or socioeconomic status (SES). An inventory was administered to 250…