An opinion on the roles of the staff development and audiovisual services at the university level and the relationship between them. (STS)

Examined role of intermarriage as indicator of intergroup relations and social distance between groups using marriage data in Singapore from 1955 to 1984. Intermarriage rates remained stable at five to six percent. Shared religion and social status, both closely connected to ethnicity in Singapore, encouraged intermarriage. Some findings suggest…

Argues that the term unemployment is used imprecisely and in ways that confuse different experiences and that "the unemployed" do not have anything like a universality of experience. They are not isolated individuals but are members of households, and the experiences of unemployment may not disturb pre-existing structures of social relations. (JOW)

Differences in staff perceptions of three aspects of school-based curriculum development (planning models, decision making, and satisfaction levels) were studied, using a sample of 277 New South Wales teachers. Results show status as significantly related to all three aspects, and underline the need for continuous staff dialog. (29 references)…

Using data from a sample of 25 U. S. metropolitan cities, this study investigates the relationship between interracial marriage and violent interracial crime. Results show a positive relationship, one which was predicted by Blau's macrosociological theory of social structure. (Author/JDH)

The state of Black-Jewish relations in the United States is far healthier, despite some differences of opinion, than the popular perception suggests. The issues that are usually cited as constituting the breakdown in harmonious Jewish-Black relations are discussed. (RM)

Women are just beginning to receive serious attention in the equal opportunity laws in the United States. (DM)

A model Home and School Association is described. (DB)

The results of this study on the relation of personality to vocational choice, suggests that personality patterns of occupational groups are more a function of those who enter and persist in the group than those who transfer to it. (Author)

Emphasis is given to the technical and ethical issues considered in the determination of immediate, intermediate, and ultimate conflict intervention goals, as well as to the various historical interpretations of intervention goals and strategies and their implications for social change. (JCD)

The Community Relations Service of the United States Department of Justice assists in the voluntary settlement of race-related disputes. The service is provided for prison administrators, private agencies, community groups, law enforcement agencies, school officials and parents organizations, business and industry leaders, and federal, state, and…

Outlines certain basic principles of dialectical interaction and suggests their applicability to interorganizational relations. The notion of resources plays a key role in this framework. (Author/IRT)