Designed to provide Nevada's school population with information that will facilitate awareness and understanding of past and present Native Nevadan lifestyles and contributions, this generalized curriculum guide might constitute a social studies unit for upper elementary and/or junior high schools. Emphasis is on the cultural-historical influence…

This volume examines a number of facets of the labor market experience and behavior of middle-aged men. It is based on a unique set of longitudinal data collected by personal interviews among the same sample of men in 1966, 1967, 1969, and 1971. The data contain a complete record of the labor market activity of the men over a five-year period,…

This conference report discusses four viewpoints on the changing makeup of the family unit. Reasons for these changes in the family (i.e., communes, unmarried couples, unisex marriages) were seen as deeply imbedded in the philosophical, religious, psychological, and moral components of life and in the technological and urban civilizations within…

Washington County, Mississippi was selected as the site for this study because it manifested many of the rural social problems of the larger 11 county Yazoo Mississippi Delta region. During the spring of 1971 a sample of 418 males, 45 years of age and younger, were interviewed to investigate achieved level of living. The sample was about evenly…

The deprivations of poverty seriously restrict the ability of millions of rural Americans to develop their potential and obtain "quality of life". If development of potential is to be maximized and if deprivations are to be reduced, structural changes are needed. The 4 change approaches that encompass much purposive social change at the locality…

Conducted in the Punjab in Jhok Sayal, a predominantly Muslim village, this narrative study described: the environment and living conditions of women in this rural village (comprised mainly of tenants and landless labourers); the attitudes of the women toward education, marriage, family planning, and skills; and the woman's daily and annual…

This booklet reports on a community project in Texas involving a day care center for senior citizens. It contains an analysis of successes and failures in attempting to satisfy the project's goals of: (l) keeping individuals out of institutions as long as possible; (2) providing social contact and enrichment experiences; (3) making the burden…

Reviews depiction of Asian women in literature by Asian writers within the context of development of basic human rights for men and wormen. Information is presented to help students analyze the literature selections. (Author/DB)

This paper examines the effect of alternative family forms on children's personalities, social behavior, and school achievement. Presented at the Sixth Annual Family Research Conference, Brigham Young University, February, 1977. (Author)

Discussed is how education can be reorganized to respond to the needs of the individual over the life cycle unconstrained by the traditional compartimentalization of educational levels and structures. (MP)

Three case studies involving a high, medium, and low-energy family are presented to illustrate the relationship among family lifestyles, decision making, and energy consumption practices. The author discusses ways the family can conserve in both direct and indirect energy consumption and how home economists are helping families adopt energy-saving…

Appropriate curriculum development strategies can result in the organization of instructional objectives, content, and activities around broad themes and the students' real-life experiences. Four basic areas of living, with substantial culturally pluralistic elements, are family life, community life, human relations, and the American cultural…

A significant correlation has been found between life satisfaction in the later years of life and the accomplishment of developmental tasks, which is taken as indicative of a person's continued growth. This study explored another variable of the same theme: the relationship of the exercise of responsibility to life satisfaction. (Author)

The expected difference between accident victim rates in modern Papago reservation communities and Tucson, Arizona did not materialize in this study of the relationship between accident victim rates and community and individual modernity. (JC)