The use of drugs is frequently a response to boredom, frustration, pain, powerlessness, and lack of hope for change. The alternatives approach suggests that drug use can be diminished as other and more satisfying means of fulfilling human needs are made accessible. This resource book grew out of the Alternative Pursuits experience, and concerns…

The effects of dropping out of the University of Washington on an individual's later life style were investigated by means of an eight page questionnaire responded to by 94 members of the class of 1966. Differences due to ability and sex as well as graduation versus dropout were investigated. Differences are reported in leisure time activities,…

This study explored some of the impacts of the presence of others on the most intimate human relationships: those of couples and parents and children in communal households. The shift from essentially dyadic to larger group relations in the home adds a number of complex phenomena: audiences, alternative resources, coalition partners,…

In recognition of the past and potential contributions of American Indian philosophy, this book presents discussions which came out of a week long conference at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. Conference participants included Native American elders (representatives from the Navajo, Mohawk, Crow, Kiowa, Pueblo, and Arapaho tribes) and officials of…

This paper concerns the place of women and men in education, and the education of future men and women about their places in society. It is written to help the National Institute of Education (NIE) formulate policies and Research and Development (R & D) programs to serve all who seek to enjoy both equity and individual differences. This paper…

The research explored whether or not the occurrence and degree of family disability introduced a distinguishable patterned set of social life views among homemakers and, if so, to what extent the patterns are general to different populations. Disability was defined as the inability to assume expected roles. Seven Mexican American migrant workers…

The problems of developing a low cost, quality institutional research program capable of longitudinal research, continuous broad bandwidth monitoring and data comparisons with other institutions, led to the development of the Hampshire Cycles Survey as an initial set of student quality of life indicators. Cycles is a multidimensional survey…

The impact of a college human sexuality course upon sexual attitudes and behavior was examined. A questionnaire, designed by the authors, was administered to students of a human sexuality course and a social psychology course at the beginning and end of the spring semester, 1975. On six of the seven attitudinal categories measured, students from…

Adlerians believe that change of any lasting value has a fundamental dependency on the client's awareness of how he incorrectly processes data in his life; he must develop the insight necessary to correct the errors in his life style. Also, the therapist must know the goals of the client's behavior in order to make relevant comments in therapy.…

A system of social indicators for the integrated and systemic study of rural socioeconomic development was constructed. Specific features of the system were that it: (1) embraced nearly all aspects of life activity of the rural population, ranging from work in the public sector to leisure behaviour; (2) included social indicators which measured…

Although it angers feminist critics that Eliot did not deal with liberated females like herself, we still can learn much about the conditions of women from her novels. (JH)

The relationships between change in individual life circumstances, perceived rate of social change, and anxiety level, are examined in two samples--one from England and one from the United States. (Available from Plenum Publishing Corporation, 227 West 17 Street, New York, NY 10011; $65.00 annually.) (Author/MLF)

Examines the data on how women are "'preparing throughout their lives to reap the full fruits of old age'" and how these activities affect those who are currently elderly. (Author)

Examines the relationship between the life course and social change in light of differing definitions of life situations by successive age groups of people. Also considers the consequences of these age groups' definitions for further social change. (DB)

This County in West Virginia is the scene of a continuing protest over the content of textbooks used in the public schools. This protest is interpreted as the politics of life style concern. Protestors are expressing a direct concern about the erosion of their control over their way of life. (Author/AM)