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A Critical, Review Of The Literature Dealing With Current Psychological Approaches To The Treatment Of Anorexia Nervosa, Pamela Jane Goy

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Response Preferences Of Blacks And Roleplaying Whites To Affirmative Action Subscripts In Job Advertisements, David Richard Macdonald

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Self-Reinforcement In The Classroom: Assessing Efficacy, Durability, Prior History And Unmerited Self-Reward, Mark Henry Lewis

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

On The Analytic Foundations Of Behaviorism, Samuel Yaffe

Masters Theses

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Stable Baselines For Single-Subject Experiments, Gerard Robert Brost

Masters Theses

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Western News, November 18, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Campus Holds Dad's Day, Issue Plea for Energy Conservation on Campus During Thanksgiving Recess, Food; Clothing Drive Underway, Sculpture Show Opens Friday, Zupko Tells of 'Storm', Burian Testifies on Human Service, Sex; Sexuality Series Continues, Ann Helgesen Dies Nov. 11, Stallman Presents Dramatic Readings, Western Has $78.5 Million Annual Impact on Kalamazoo, Elect Bernhard AASCU Director, WMU Co-Sponsors Metric Conference

Western News, November 11, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Look at Future of Language; Computer Talk, Former Nixon Adviser Visits, Panel Discussion on Alcohol Set, Art Auction Here Nov. 21, Assertiveness Workshop Set, Japan Seminar Here Saturday, Lofflers Report on Iran Research, Genetic Engineering Talk by Friedman, Explain Salary Progress Chart

Western News, November 4, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Korean Conference Here, Short-Term Loan Applications Due, Sex; Sexuality Series Continues, WMU Hosts Chicano Day, Holmes Heads Arts Congress, Art Seminar; Display Here, Obscene Concept is Lecture Topic, Faculty/Staff Motor Vehicle Registration is Underway, Goldfarb to Report on Spiritualism, Fred Waring at Miller, Biofeedback Conference Monday, Woman Admiral Visits Campus, Salvage Seminar Underway Here, How to Avert Info Chaos

Maximizing The Impact Of An Alternative Agency, Miriam Galper, Carolyn Kott Washburne

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

In the late 1960's and early 1970's the energy for change generated by the civil rights, black power and women's movements strongly affected many professionals working in social welfare agencies. Individually or with others in agencies, caucuses and unions, these radical professionals began to question the services provided by their agencies, the social and political functions of those agencies, and the part they played in their agencies. They began to critique the social welfare system in the United States and to develop some perspectives on what social services could be like if the country were truly committed to improving human …

Comunication Disturbances In A Welfare Bureaucracy: A Case For Self Management, Robert E. O'Conner, Larry D. Spence

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The survey data in this study of 1313 caseworkers and income-maintenance workers of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare provide some elements of a description of white-collar alienation in government bureaucracies. We interpret our findings to indicate that the hierarchical communication network of this department operates to deny implicitly the worth and intelligence of workers. As perceived by employees, the general pattern of message construction, message transmission and message acknowledgment takes no account of their needs for information and validation nor does it allow the information generated at the work place to be fed back to the administration. Thus, the …

The Politics Of Drug Addiction: A Comparison Of United States And Chinese Drug Policies Since 1949, Richard Fortmann

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

During the past decade the increase in drug use and drug addiction in the United States has been viewed with growing alarm. Drug addiction has been compared to a contagious disease, an epidemic which is raging in our cities and towns. Although the rhetoric has become more dramatic, the drug problem is certainly not a new one. This paper is concerned with the historic failure of United States policies to eliminate or even to contain drug abuse and drug addiction. It is the central thesis of this paper that drug addiction is a social disease, and as such is symptomatic …

Western News, October 14, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Five Teaching Awards Given, Two Join President's Club, Two Homecoming Dances Slated, Primitive Tribe Warfare Lecture; Movie Tuesday, ‘Night Music' at Auditorium, Horst to Report on Catastrophes, Adams' Love Letters in Reader's Theatre, Wife Beating is Series Topic, Homecoming Parade Saturday, Paolo Soleri to Speak, Police Acquire Additional Radar, Faculty Book Fair on Campus, Toledo is Bronco Homecoming Foe

Western News, October 7, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Conference to Examine Morality of Ceasing Life 'Support Steps’, Directed Teaching Sets Meetings, Campus Ministry Offer Workshop, Offer Course for Undecided Student, Social Work Receives Grant, 'Naughty Marietta' On Oct. 13, Career Day Here Today, Computer Center to Purge Disk, Fountain' Fest Here Sunday, Ham Radio Conference Here, World Politics Symposium Set, KSO Begins 55th Season, Remind Faculty of Student Rights, Homecoming Pop Show Features Convy; Knight, Remind Students of Special Awards, WMU Students Earned $3.1 Million-Last Year, Trustees Approve WMU Foundation, Explain Job Listing Schedule, Kennett Joins Athletic Staff

University Magazine Vol. 2 No. 3, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• Letters
• The State of the University
• Graduate Education at Western Michigan University
• Whither We Go?
• An Alumnus' Advice at Christmastime
• On Campus
• Teaching Excellence Awards
• Homecoming '76
• Recommended Reading
• Distinguished Alumni Awards
• Alumni News
• Estate Planning Ideas
• Bronco Sports
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam

Black Dialect In Children's Books, Melvin W. Wells

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Black non-Standard English is different in grammar (syntax) from Standard English. The advent of the 60's produced authors who explored the full possibilities of language to deal with their themes. The increased use of dialect by black authors, particularly children's authors, was a sign that the nature of the black experience as they wanted to convey it did not have to rely on traditional forms, and literary devices; that they could treat familiar, realistic ideas and situations using a familiar dialect and relate that idea more effectively.

Philosophical And Cultural Perspectives On Reading, Nathan Kroman

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Candor requires that I disclaim any real expertise in the educational specialty of reading instruction. This probably accounts for my writing about it with such sublime confidence. I do, however, believe that I know how to read. Moreover I have related to large numbers of people who are representative of many and diverse occupational and regional sub-cultures across the United States and Canada all of whom believe that they know how to read. These people typically exhibit a rather particular pattern of thinking styles. Since thinking is related to language and language is related to reading and since they all …

Reading Horizons Vol. 17, No. 1

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 17, issue 1.

Self Concept Of Academic Ability And Reading Proficiency, John N. Mangieri, Henry D. Olsen

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Brookover and associates (1962, 1964, 1965) have investigated the nature of self-concept and its effects, and relationships, to the academic achievement. Results reported indicate that there is a direct relationship between self-concept and academic achievement.

The Effect Of Music On Reading, Patrick Groff

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

It is apparent that music and language reading are both perceptual acts. To read either language or music one obviously must pay close attention to selective details of a graphic display. To listen to music or to words read aloud also involves some common perceptual abilities. Therefore, it is predictable that some have claimed that children's experiences with music will help them to learn to read language. There are several "parallels" in music and language reading, Monroe contends.

Analogies: Word Attack And Reading Comprehension Skills In A Thinking Context, Jerome Axelrod

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Few cues give a teacher a more valid or quicker insight into her students' thinking abilities than analogies. The pupils' mental manipulations—or lack thereof—reveal to the aware and perceptive teacher a usually-accurate idea of the extent to which her pupils will be able to perform. Picture analogies for non-readers and word analogies for literate pupils can be used informally by the classroom teachers to approximate just how much pupils, individually, are capable of learningin an academic situation.

Study As Self Instruction: The P.O.W.E.R. Comprehension Model, Richard Burke

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Most reading expected of secondary and college students is ac complished out of class even though that reading is usually for the purpose of school achievement. Usually it is instructional behavior we are after when we have students read for class, but most management of the learning process ends when the students leave the classroom. If out-of-class reading is for instructional purposes and if the teacher's function is to manage the learning process, then consideration of learning behavior in out-of-class instruction is worth our attention as teachers. Rothkopf (1965) has coined the term mathemagenics to refer to behaviors which give …

Echoes From The Field: Philosophy For Secondary Remediation, Shirley Madsen

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Almost all phases of remedial reading, from teacher training to practical application, are aimed at the early elementary levels (and rightly so), but reading problems do persist among students at the middle school, junior high and high school levels. Therefore, a committee of the Montana Reading Council has compiled this Philosophy for secondary remediation.

Western News, September 30, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Career Day Next Thursday, Sport Sociologist to Lecture Here, United Way Appeal Made, Plan Caravans to Away Games, American Art Film Wednesday, World Politics Symposium Set, List Homecoming Contest Entry Deadline Dates, Motor Pool Policy Conserves Energy, Old Campus Photos Sought, Special Workshop Saturday, Miller Adds Mexican Ballet, Faculty Report on Solar Energy, 4 to Join Athletic Hall of Fame, Field Hockey Squad Perfect

Western News, September 23, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Bert Convy Replaces Vale, Writing Lab; Tutor Service Available Free, Duval Addresses Paper Foundation, Pegasus Tutors Seek Volunteers, Equus Opens Patron's Choice Series, Name Two New Dept. Chairmen, Title Changes; Transfers Okayed, U.H.C. Acquiring Flu Vaccine, Capital Growth Seminar Here, Award 10 Gerontology Assistantships, Western Faces Big Ten Foe, Dr. Fatzinger Dies

Western News, September 16, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Black Arts Conference Here, PA Program Gets $213,042, Paul McCracken to Lecture Wednesday, Bernhard Says Progress Made Despite New Environment, Life Estimation Program Here, Dietrich Heads Women's Services Center, 'State of University' Told, Assertiveness Workshop Set, Broncos Visit' Northern 11 Illinois, Harriers Entertain Ball State; Purdue, Name Three Women Coaches

Western News, September 9, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Campus Briefs, World Politics Symposium Here on Campus Oct 7-9, Western Recycles Cherry Orchard, Assertiveness Workshop Set, Oceans Course in Newspaper, Parker Supervises Catering Services, Kalamazoo Symphony Sets Series, Energy Conservation Efforts Are Paying Big Dividends, Football Opener Here Saturday, Homecoming Fountain Fest

What Kind Of Sociology Is Useful To Social Workers?, Alfred Mcclung Lee

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Both social workers and sociologists have been trying desperately for more than a century to live down their miscellaneous ancestry. Both are still embarrassed that their disciplines are rooted historically in the work of oldtime clergy, police, utopian philosophers, sentimentalists, reactionary manipulators, and radical thinkers and agitators. Nevertheless it was from those men's and women's concerns, their perceptions of social problems, their efforts at social amelioration and reform or revolution, and their inter-cult conflicts that the two corps of modern professionals sprang.

Phenomenological Social Science And Holistic Social Policy, Thomas D. Watts

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The reliability of positivistic social science knowledge poses seminal problems for social policy. Needed is more sound phenomenological and qualitative research within the conspectus of the twin theoretical movements of ethnomethodology and the Frankfurt School, towards the goal of a more holistic social science knowledge base as well as a more holistic social policy.

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 4, No. 1 (September 1976)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Editorial - pp. 3
• What Kind of Sociology is Useful to Social Workers? - ALFRED McCLUNG LEE - pp. 4
• Toward a Working Model for Community Organizing in the 1970's - JOHN L. MUSICK, NANCY R. HOOYMAN - pp. 14
• The Incremental Trail in Developing False Doctrine and its Consequences in the American Drug Scene - AVRON HEILIGMAN - pp. 19
• A Locality-Oriented Public Welfare Agency: A Case Study of Boundary Maintenance in a Hostile Environment - RAY H. MACNAIR, GRETA HAWTHORNE - pp. 27
• An Economic Analysis of Economic Inequality - JOHN P. HUTTMAN - pp. …

Towards The Development Of Theory: Cultural Pluralism Redefined, Antonia Pantoja, Wilhelmina Perry, Barbara Blourock

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The authors are attempting to move beyond the descriptive position, evidenced in the current writing, towards a theoretical approach to cultural pluralism. A series of definitions are presented concluding with the authors' definition of cultural pluralism - redefined. The new definition is discussed, as an operational concept, emanating from participants in the new cultural pluralism movement.

The current societal conditions that impede the realization of cultural pluralism are discussed in relation to a conceptual model, Criteria for Assigning Preferred or Unpreferred Status, that is used to explain our society's idealization of certain personal, social, and economic characteristics.

The authors conclude …