This illustrated booklet for delegates provides a very brief overview of the White House Conference on Families (WHCF). Contents include a welcoming statement by the conference chairperson, a review of preconference activities leading up to the conference, and lists of conference goals and themes. Officers of the conference as well as WHCF staff…

This report on the White House Conference on Families (WHCF) was prepared by the J.C. Penney Company for corporate leaders. Background information on the WHCF, issues related to families and work, a depiction of the changing work force, and policy recommendations are included in the report. Recommendations focus on flextime, flexible leave…

Numerous methods of categorization have been devised to define the cultural types of Chinese living in America. However, an understanding of Chinese ethnicity in America is not limited to understanding ethnicity alone, but to how America itself is perceived. The underlying assumption in considering Chinese in America and Chinese-Americans as two…

A content analysis of "McClure's Magazine," often cited as initiating the muckraking era, was undertaken to assess whether muckraking content constituted the dominant element in the appeal the magazine had for its readers. The publication period 1903-1905 was chosen for the study; each monthly issue was examined; and each article,…

The University Urban Interface Program (UUIP) at the University of Pittsburgh provides a major challenge to the university. Through study and research of various issues, it is the hope of the project directors that they will be able to assist other interested institutions in preparing themselves to respond and adapt to the challenges of urban…

A kaleidoscope of how citizens in the United States have been answering the question, "What can the average citizen do to protect and enhance the environment?" is presented in this bulletin. Voluntary citizen organizations, environmental organizations, interested individuals, and educational groups are pictured as having combined to fulfill a…

Article described Jane Addams' Hull House and the broad arts programs which she brought to the near west side immigrant neighborhood of Chicago. (Editor/RK)

Research indicates that the impetus to solve pollution problems may have to come from processes outside the realm of ordinary problem solving institutions. Mass media exposure and involvement in the political process are ineffective in generating antipollution sentiment. "Grass roots" movements based on informal communication may emerge to combat…

Research indicates that public concern about pollution is either passive or nonexistent. Concern with pollution correlated substantially with concern with other socioeconomic issues. Environmental activists were found to not think of themselves as working class, to not feel politically alienated, and to prefer liberal political party…

Discusses various subjects such as the American Indian Movement, the urbanization of the native American, the effects of the mass media on Third World minorities, and the probability of spiritual reunification of native Americans. (Author/AM)

Analyzes the structure of relationships between streaking faddists on the campus and elsewhere in the country and the conditions, including the actions of the university officials, which gave rise to the fad on the campus and ultimately led to its termination. (Author/AM)

Author concentrates not on the fiery anarchism for which "Red" Emma Goldman was internationally famous, but on the dilemmas of an anarchist-educator as reflected in her attitude toward children. (Editor/RK)

Harvard University has not fully divested from South Africa. Alumni Against Apartheid (AAA) is increasing the pressure by gaining a seat on the board of overseers and rallying support of students and alumni. This issue may become the spearhead of a general change in the institution's social policies. (VM)

Two conflicting developmental accounts of how mental states are used in evaluating actors were tested by varying actors' intentionality, foreknowledge of outcome, and the values of motive and outcome. Findings suggested that children use intentionality before knowledge in judgments of action sequences and that actor's foreknowledge of an outcome…

Examines the history of U.S. political primaries, discusses Democratic Party reforms in the presidential nomination process since 1968, and cites important generalizations about how the process works today. States that the system lessens party leader influence, giving the media power to set public expectations and declare winners and losers. (GEA)