Scientific advancement is crucial to our national welfare, yet the science curriculum fails to address current social problems relevant to scientific inquiry. Moreover, scientific technology is regarded by many as a threat to their security. Possible solutions include addressing societal issues in science classes and creating regional science…

Elaborates on the problem of expanding human activity to the world's plant and animal species. Concludes that preserving an individual species is largely a waste of time and effort and that the best way to protect the most species of plants and animals is to save their environments over large tracts of land. (DB)

Presents evaluation sheet for secondary school students to use in understanding specific social issues and the implications of particular decisions. Students rate the action in terms of implementation, implications of results, what historians will say later, and what the public will say at the time. (KC)

Maintaining that people in modern society stand in need of statistical literacy, the article explains why education needs to provide this kind of literacy and evaluates the degree to which education to date has been sucessful in achieving its statistical literacy goals. Offers suggestions on using social indicators to enhance learning in the…

Included in this article is a discussion of operations research and systems analysis which attack large-scale problems and challenges other relevant sciences to unite with society to solve widespread social problems. (Author/SA)

Presented are perspectives on the emergence of environmental problems. Six major trends in scientific thinking are identified including: holistic approaches to examining environments, life support systems, resource management, risk assessment, streamlined methods for monitoring environmental change, and emphasis on the global framework. (Author/SA)

Six articles focus on various aspects on violence in American society. Titles are "Evolving a Science of Violence,""Violence by Youth; Violence Against Youth,""Victims and Aggressors in Marital Violence,""Television Violence, Victimization, and Power," and "Violence in Business Settings." (DB)

Analyzes the development of the runaway problem and the dramatic increases in number of runaways. This typology classifies runaways by level of alienation with family and the degree to which the child internalizes running away as response to stress. Treatment is discussed. (Author/NRB)

Discusses the social role of science and the social responsibilities of scientists, along with the concomitant roles that philosophy, history, and sociology of science have in current social concerns. (CS)

Describes the secondary and college level courses in social biology taught in the early 1960s that first linked the human situation to basic biological principles and concepts. Provides a general description of the present status of social biology in England. (CS)

This editorial outlines desirable content for a comprehensive text on social biology and discusses the relevant areas of hominid evolution, ecology, ethology, and archaeology. (CS)

Summarized are responses to a 1980 "Natural History""You and the Ecology Movement" questionnaire on ecological problems and the environmental movement. Returns indicate that concern for environmental quality is still very much in evidence, but some new directions and emphases are apparent. (WB)

A study of college students showed the more supportive students were about the right of people to commit suicide, the more anxious they felt about death, the less strongly they were committed to a religion, and the more seriously they had thought about committing suicide. (Author)

Provides a view of the problem of illegitimacy by focusing on the unmarried father. Examines charactersitics of unmarried fathers, their legal status, and the provision of social services for them. A policy approach utilizing several guiding principles is suggested to improve the provision of services for the unmarried father. (Author)

Describes and analyzes a run of the roughest and most basic version of the ABZ GAMES, a family of games for teaching about social group interaction in situations where oppression is a key element. Adaptations for a migrant farm version and a women's rights version are noted. (Author/CMV)