A survey of existing community centers governing bodies, activities, and directors was made in order to prepare a graduate course for center directors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Difficulties in defining and identifying a "community center" were found due to the great diversity of organization. (MF)

Offers a behavioral definition of a public, demonstrates how the definition can be used by public relations practitioners in researching and analyzing their publics, and reports on a formulative study of a suburban hospital that can serve as a model for public relations practitioners who wish to do similar research. (Author/GW)

Described are developments in the dynamics of a 13-session group discussion project for nine visually impaired older adults. (CL)

This paper analyzes development of group structure in terms of the stimulus-sampling perspective. Learning is the continual sampling of possibilities, with those reinforced possibilities increasing in probability of occurance. This contingency learning approach is tested experimentally. (NG)

Investigated relationship between aspects of organizational structure and alienation as experienced by personnel (N=603) employed in nine social services organizations. Interviews with personnel making executive decisions, those making supervisory assessments, and those concerned with client interaction revealed that the best predictions of…

Conflict episodes among first-graders were videotaped and analyzed. It appears that the function of social conflict among children is to build their small-group society and its structure: while arguing, children create political alignments, and thereby realize their practical interests within a changing set of social relationships. (KH)

This essay analyzes how the Afro-American intelligentsia has inherited and has been critically influenced by the idological postures of bourgeois thought, and utilized it in the study of the Afro-American experience. (Author/AM)

This paper is an attempt to understand the results of the structural location and life experience of blue-collar white Americans. (DM)

This paper argues for an alternative method of structuring classroom behavior that is more democratic, giving students a chance to discipline themselves. (Author)

The hypoethsis that Ss in two incompatible affection groups would gain significantly more on dimensions of self-actualization than Ss in two compatible affection groups was supported. (Author)

Develops an analysis of law as a network of small group interaction, using the constitution of a particular experimental group confined for about three months in a penthouse on the Berkeley campus of the University of California as an illustration. (JM)

A scale is developed by employing a form of item analysis called trace line analysis. Statistically significant associations with variables expected to be related to familism support the validity of the scale. (Author)

Compared performances for male and female groups using three different group problem-solving procedures: unstructured, structured-open, and structured-forced. Results indicated that female groups performed better with the structured-forced procedure than with the structured-open procedure. Male groups performed better with the structured-open…