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Block Clubs And Social Action: A Case Study In Community Conflict, Mohan L. Kaul

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

A "Block Club" may be defined as a group of citizens in a neighborhood who get together and work together to improve their neighborhood. Kahn defines "block organizing as a highly manageable technique, usually "an urban technique" (1970:36). In this context, "organizing may be viewed as a means of achieving and guiding local control over problems that orginate elsewhere in society" (Ecklein & Lauffer 1972:11). shereas services focus on individual needs, organizing focuses on the location of common problems and joint efforts aimed at their solution. Community organizers have generally used a natural leader-informal association approach to organizing Block Clubs …

Praxis In The Human Services As A Political Act, David G. Gil

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

My purpose in this paper is to develop a rationale for, and to suggest approaches to, the conscious integration of a political component into professional practice. Involved in this is a re-definition or re-conceptualization of professional roles in the human services as potentially powerful means of a radical, revolutionary political strategy. The overall aim of such a political strategy is to eliminate the systemic sources and dynamics of social, economic, and political inequalities - in my view, the major underlying causes of the entire array of social problems with which the human services profess to be concerned.

Western News, February 24, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Clarify Governance Role; Past Practices in Letter to Faculty, Western's Annual Fund Tops Million Dollar Mark in 1975, Ferrante; Teicher To Perform In Miller Auditorium March 17, Complete Text of Bernhard Letter, Engineering Day Feb. 26

Western News, February 19, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Campus Briefs, Share-a-Ride Program Busy, Engineering Day Feb. 26, Project SCOPE For Sr. Citizens, Set Professional Development Workshop for P/A Employees, Plan Archeology Field School At Former Indian Village Site, Cite Young Award Winners, Tahitian Dancers to Perform Here

Western News, February 5, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Clarify Reappointment Conditions, AAUP Takes U. Proposal To Faculty, Seek to Curtail False Fire Alarms by Offering Reward, Utilities Cost $470/an Hour, Designate Bicentennial School, Bernhards; Area Legislators; Mayor To Perform in Concert, Polish Dancers Here- Feb. 12, 'W' Club Cites Tom Briscoe

Western News, January 8, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Biofeedback Workshop Jan. 9-11, C/T Union Vote Jan. 21, Meyer Heads Emerti Council, 'La Mancha' Here Jan. 14, Gabier Heads Development; Alumni; Clarkson Moves Up, Seek Whitney Young Applicants, Offer Gymnastic Youth Instruction, Couples Workshop Begins Next Week, Teacher Education Meeting Tuesday

The Informant Volume Viii, Number 2, Western Michigan University

Informant (1968-1981)

Volume VIII, Number 2

Winter 1976

• The Use of Para-Linguistic Features in the Teaching of Spanish to English Speakers
• Bicentennial Project
• Tutors Needed
• Hendriksen Publishes Article
• New Students (18)
• Winter Enrollment
• Alumna/Student News
• Conference on Non-Verbal Communication
• Musico/a, Maestro/a!
• The Last of the Susans
• Spring/Summer Schedules
• Course Changes
• Linguistics Department Fall 1976
• Call for Papers

The Social Sciences In General Education, Bobby G. Bell

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Proponents of general education maintain that every person is worthy of an education that is most general. Translated into a formal curriculum general education refers to that part of a student's education lying outside his area of specialization. Cultural and social literacy remain the dominant goals. Even though controversy surrounds the definition of general education and the philosophical approaches to its realization, the objective seems to be clear, that education "for an informed responsible life in our society" and "that part of a student's education which looks first of all to his life as a responsible human being and citizen." …

Western Michigan University 1976, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Yearbooks (1906-1985)

• Pictures from across campus
• Pictures of students

Perspectives Vol. 8 No. 1

Perspectives (1969-1979)

No abstract provided.

Wmu Board Of Trustee Minutes 1976, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• MEMBERS AND OFFICERS OF THE BOARD
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• MINUTES
  • January 16
  • February 20
  • March 26
  • April 23
  • May 21
  • June 18
  • July 16
  • September 17
  • October 15
  • November 19
  • December 17
• APPENDIX A - HONORARY DEGREES
  • DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARDS
  • UNIVERSITY DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
• APPENDIX B - WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY GRADUATES
  • April 24, 1976
  • June 23, 1976
  • August 20, 1976
  • December 18, 1976
• INDEX

Humanism As Demystification, Alfred Mcclug Lee

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Under a variety of labels, many academic disciplines focus on the unsettling impact of fresh and vivid interpersonal experiences upon pre-existing beliefs and behaviour patterns. Reference is to philosophical discussions of sophism and humanism, historical theories about frontier influences, anthropological interest in culture shock, psychiatric concern with empathy and with perceptive listening, and sociological analyses of marginality, uses of participant observation and life-history data, and clinical studies of social behavior. Their significant similarity is that they are all discussions of demystifying influences on social thought and action. They are demystifying in the sense that they tend to translate the distant, …

The Punishment Of Divorced Mothers, Herman Borenzweig

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

As the clinical social worker to seven young divorced mothers I began to wonder why the lives of these women had become so remarkably unbearable. I compared the experiences of the women who were coming to me for group psychotherapy with about thirty similar divorced mothers who were also members of the West Side Jewish Community Center of Los Angeles. All the women were experiencing similar difficulties. I also explored some of the literature about the problems faced by divorced mothers! This essay is the culmination of my research. It summarizes some of my conjectures about the disadvantaged social status …

Western News, December 11, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: WMU State Appropriations to Be Cut Another $500,000, Revised Schedules Set For WMU Energy Conservation, Campus Violent Crimes Report Shows Decline, Student Nominations For Teaching Excellence Awards, Cite Student Musicians in 'Voices From Michigan's Past' Production, Kurzen Captains Bronco Cagers, Geology Seminar Features R. A. Davis

Western News, December 4, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: What Are Legal; Economic Effects If Faculty Strike?, Phone Changes Reduce Costs, American Nut Show Tuesday, Black Poet Here Today, Music Department to Present Community Christmas Card, Para School Receives Grant, Bernhard Sees No Increase in 1976-77 State Funding, Marion R. Spear Story Kicks Off O.T. Fund Drive, Trustees Grant Emeritus Status to Hannon; Van Den Berg, Western Receives CETA Support, Matthew; Forrest Chalk Up Career Football Records

Statural Growth In Down Syndrome, Christine E. Cronk

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Sex And Curriculum Differences In Conceptions Of The Teacher Role: A Role Theoretical Analysis, Steven Michael Koning

Masters Theses

This study is concerned with factors which influence the way individuals conceptualize and define their social roles. Role theory suggests that role conceptions, which are individual orientations to a role, are affected by expectations associated with the role and personality characteristics that an individual brings to the role. These suggestions are tested by examining sex and curriculum differences in conceptions of the teacher role among education students at a midwestern university. Conceptions of teacher control and nurturance are assessed by two scales developed by the author. Results indicate that factors associated with a student's curriculum influence orientations toward teacher control …

An Analysis Of The Stone Artifacts From Gallinas Springs, New Mexico, Marvin G. Keller

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

An Interpretation Of The Determinants And Development Of The Cheyenne Council Of Forty-Four, David J. Pfundt

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Social Research On Housing In The United States: Directions And Themes, Shirley S. Angrist

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

I shall present a selective overview of recent themes and directions in social research on housing in the U.S. I narrowed the topic by focusing on research centering on the family and on neighborhood. These topics offer ways to concentrate on "social" research and to narrow a rather broad topic.

My meaning of "social" research encompasses work not only by sociologists. It also includes the separate or collaborative work of other disciplines, especially psychology, anthropology, social psychology, architecture and urban planning. Research on housing has from its Post-World War II flowering been an interdisciplinary enterprise. And it continues to be …

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 3, No. 2 (November 1975)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Issue Editor - Dr. ELIZAJETH HUTTMAN, Dept. of Sociology, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY – HAYWARD

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction, pp 115
• Social Research On Housing in the United States: Direction and Themes - SHIRLEY S. ANGRIST, pp 117
• Relocation of Vancouver's Chinatown Residents Under Urban Renewal - RICHARD NAMM, pp 125
• New Towns and Social Welfare Prospects: 1975-2000 AD - ARTHUR B. SHOSTAK, pp 131
• Operational Problems of New Communities - CHESTER C. McGUIRE, pp 136
• Gemeinschaft vs. Gesellschaft in a Finnish New Town - STANLEY F. WISEMAN, pp 141
• Alternative Methods of Providing Services For the Elderly In Independent and …

New Towns And Social Welfare Prospects: 1975 - 2000 A.D., Arthur B. Shostak

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

America's 15 HUD-aided new towns are mired in such serious financial problems as to make likely the emphatic close of the 1968-1974 Golden Age of modern new town development. Contrary, however, to present-day indications there is reason to expect a revival of new town prospects in the late 1970's, and social welfare components may be center stage in the matter.

There is no gainsaying the seriousness of the 1975 collapse of the American new towns movement: HUD, for example, from a prior commitment to approving at least ten projects a year between 1968 and 2000 A.D. is now refusing to …

Western News, October 23, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Biology, geography seminar Wednesday, New telephone directory here, Student research deadline Nov. 1, Lynton Caldwell here next week, Wind ensemble concert Nov. 2, Discuss philosophy of Law, Housing; food officers here, Winter registration underway, ERISA seminar here Nov. 7, Robert Theobald lecture at KVCC

Western News, October 16, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: United Way Drive Starts, Polymer Research Director to Visit, Food; Energy Talk Wednesday, Sexuality; Rape Series Continues, Open Radio Series Auditions, State Society Honors Gernant, CEO Offers Free Tutors, French National Band Returns For Bicentennial Celebration, Ice Show Here October 22-26, Discuss Impact of Privacy Act

The Informant Volume Viii, Number 1, Western Michigan University

Informant (1968-1981)

Volume VIII, Number 1

Fall 1975

• The Germanic Cognates of Modern English and Modern German: An Overview of the Principles of Semantic Retention and Divergence
• Faculty News
• Notices
• CEP Aids Foreign Students
• Miss America Majors in Linguistics
• New Students in Linguistics Programs (29)
• Modern and Classical Languages
• The Spear-Wart Hypothesis
• Critical Language Vacancies
• Linguistics Department Winter 1976

Western News, September 25, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Special Film Shown Tonight, Campus Blood Drive Oct. 6-9, Fall Academic Forum Begins, Last Threshold Here; On Sale, Young Lectures on Forest Land, Writing Workshop to Help Women, Guy Lombardo; Royal Canadians Perform Wednesday at Miller, Students Produce 'Menagerie', Gridders Host Northern Illinois, Women's Sports Now Underway

Western News, September 18, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Set Moratorium on Remodeling, Establish Car Pool Service, Plan Alcohol Awareness Week, Local M.D. To Discuss 'Human Sexuality and College Student', Newsprint Recycler To Address Annual Paper Tech Foundation Meeting Here, University Health Center Discontinues Night; Some Weekend Service Hours, Depreciation Program Underway, Sammy Cahn's 'Words and Music' At Miller Auditorium Sept. 29, Broncos Face Big Ten Gophers, Postal Rates Effect Campus

Self-Concept And Reinforcement: Two Paths To Achievement For Black And White Elementary School Children, Kirby L. Throckmorton

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Survey Of Cross-Cultural Determinants Of Mental Disorders, Janet Lesniewski

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Substance Abuse Prevention Plan Proposal For The State Of Michigan, William Lucien Macleod

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.