Examines societal institutions that promote sexism and powerlessness, including the family, police and courts, and marriage. Considers the political implications of research generated from biological/psychological disciplines which focus on individual psychopathology and fail to account for cultural determinants of rape. (JAC)

Responds to "A Nation at Risk" from the perspective of home economics. Indicates that problems are caused not by a lack of math and science but by a need for education in human relationships and social issues. (JOW)

Child neglect prevention is discussed at three levels: the individual, the social system, and fundamental beliefs and cultural agreements. An outline of a preventive child neglect intervention strategy is presented. Practices of government, the impact of business and technology and economic theory, and practice are shown as plausible areas for…

A sampling of titles published during 1976 representing to young readers: death, freedom, the handicapped, the Holocaust, the human condition, life styles, minority cultures (inside our country and beyond our shores), relationships, the search for identity, the look of tomorrow, and the continuing wonder about life and the world. (Author)

Draws examples from rhetoric of the Gay Lib, Women's Lib, and Black Power movements to illustrate an emerging conservative voice. (RN)

The poem describes the American Indian and his acculturation into white society. (FF)

Reviews three films dealing with problems of the aging. (SP)

It is essential that we learn how to secure the attention of people who make the kinds of decisions which will in the long run determine whether mankind survives or dies. (Author)

films can be effectively used in social science curricula to focus on and dramatize social problems. Such an approach used at Everett Community College (Washington) is discussed. (NF)

The author describes a way of teaching biology that opens up discussion of societal problems after giving students the hard facts for dealing with them. (Editor)

This brief introduction sets the stage for this issue's topic of the libraries' role in social problems. (MF)

These reports were compiled as representative of the broad spectrum of socially-concerned activity that can be observed in the library profession at almost any given time. (Author/ MF)

It is the responsibility of teachers to imbue in their students the idea that settlements to today's problems are not necessarily just or permanent. In a democratic society, all segments of the populace have the right to be considered. (CK)