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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

The Socializer, February 13, 1976, Department Of Sociology

The Socializer

Volume 1, Number 15 of the Socializer, published February 13, 1976.

Western News, January 29, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Report on Budget; Rehires; Bargaining, Answer Queries About Administrative Salaries; Faculty Research Funds, Set TIAA-CREF Meetings, Mitchell Discusses Faculty Rehiring; Salaries

Western News, January 15, 1976, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Trustees Meet Here Friday, Bernhard Letter to C/T Staff, Set 4th Secretarial Seminar, Sex; Sexuality Series Play Here Tonight, U.T. Reopens Coupon Sales, WIDR-Studio in Contest, Host International Low Vision Talks, Milliken Appoints Mann To Board, Reissue Closing Policy

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

Turning Kids On To Language, Robert D. Hughes

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

One of the great problems we face as teachers is how to get kids interested in whatever it is that we want to teach them. Whether it is reading, writing, math, social studies, we know that the key to teaching success is motivation. "If we could just get them involved, we could teach them."

The Fallacy Of Elitism In General Education, Robert A. Dentler

Perspectives (1969-1979)

An address prepared for the Association of General and Liberal Studies Conference, 1976

Much has been written by academic historians about anti-intellectualism in North America, but the same academic brotherhood has had little to say on the subject of academic elitism. This subject may be too close to home. Elitism has been rife among North American academics for 300 years. The term elite springs from the French. It is related to the Latin for the elect. It refers to one who is chosen - to the flower, the cream, the aristocracy. Political scientists have extended the term to its natural …

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." …

Interdisciplinary Perspectives Vol. 8 No. 2

Perspectives (1969-1979)

No abstract provided.

Western Michigan University 1976, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Yearbooks (1906-1985)

• Pictures from across campus
• Pictures of students

Testing In The Arts: Aesthetic Perception Is A Part Of Human Intelligence, Warren Sylvester Smith

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Simply stated like this , who would argue about it? The recognition of forms and patterns - visual or aural - the sensitive distinction among colors, the interpretation of movement or gesture - all of these are patently human accomplishments , and mastery of them is generally recognized as evidence of a kind of superiority. The statement would seem more commonplace than revolutionary.

But, as with many a principle honored in the abstract, putting it into educational practice would be revolutionary. Although the notion of measuring intelligence is no longer fashionable, our aptitude and achievement tests do imply two major …

Perspectives Vol. 8 No. 1

Perspectives (1969-1979)

No abstract provided.

Reading Horizons Vol. 16, No. 2

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 16, issue 2.

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

Social Policies And Social Development - A Humanistic-Egalitarian Perspective, David G. Gil

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This essay explores the relationship of social policies and of policy-relevant societal values to social development. Its thesis is that the scope, direction, and quality of the social development process are largely shaped by the social policies and the dominant value positions of societies.

Social Change And Social Action, Bernard J. Coughlin, S. K. Khinduka

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

We define social action as a strategy to obtain limited social change at the intermediate or macro levels of society which is generally used in nonconsensus situations and employs both "norm-adhering" and "norm-testing" modes of intervention. In this formulation, the key concept is social change. This paper proposes to explore certain aspects of social change as they apply to social action.

The discussion is divided into two parts. The first is a brief summary of pertinent social change theory, presented as background for part two in which are presented and discussed certain propositions about planned change that are critical to …

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, …

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 3, No. 3 (January 1976)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Social Policies and Social Development-A Humanistic-Egalitarian Perspective - DAVID G. GIL, pp. 242
• Public Welfare: Utilization, Change, Appropriations, Services - JOHN E. TROPMAN, pp.264.
• The Punishment of Divorced Mothers - HERMAN BORENZWEIG, pp. 291
• Low Income, Ethnicity and Voluntary Association Involvement - NANCY G. KUTNER, pp. 311
• Social Change and Social Action - BERNARD J. COUGHLIN, S.K. KHINDUKA, pp. 322
• The Mystique of Expertise in Social Service: An Alaska Example - DOROTHY M. JONES, pp.332
• Humanism as Demystification -ALFRED McCLUNG LEE, pp. 347

Public Welfare: Utilization, Change, Appropriations, Service, John E. Tropman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

During the decade of the 1960's there was continually increasing interest in the programs of public welfare. This interest sprang from several sources. Citizens, always worried about welfare expenditures, developed resurgent concern. Recipients, long a quiet group, became more active, forming the National Welfare Rights Organization. And then there was the rediscovery of poverty as a social problem, and a realization that very many Americans were poor, many more than anyone had somehow realized.

The general interest in poverty and the measures used to relieve it had an effect on the academic community, generating some sustained and critical attention to …

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 …

Low Income, Ethnicity, And Voluntary Association Involvement, Nancy G. Kutner

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Data on voluntary association participation among low-income members of major ethnic groups in the U.S. are reviewed. Low-income blacks are most likely to participate, followed by (2) whites and Mexican Americans and (3) Italian Americans and Puerto Ricans. Reasons for these ethnic differences are considered. More general factors affecting voluntary association patterns of low-income persons are also considered, and a means for increasing their voluntary association involvement is suggested.

The Mystique Of Expertise In Social Services: An Alaska Example, Dorothy M. Jones

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

In this paper I shall examine the roots and manifestations of the mystique of expertise, its consequences for agency evaluation practices, and its consequences for clients.

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

A Study Of Selected Variables For Prediction Of Success And Placement In General Chemistry At Western Michigan University, Stephen M. Yekeson

Dissertations

Chapter I

The Problem

Introduction

The traditional philosophy that a college-or a university is an exclusive institution in which only highly selected individuals receive a concentrated training in the traditional liberal arts no longer exists. In America, for instance, as early as 1870, Harvard, the colonial college with a narrow curriculum, was transformed rather rapidly into a modern university with many new subjects and the elective system (Garrett, 1949). Also, since 1642, when the first entrance requirements were instituted for American higher education, a continuing debate has developed over what constitutes a sound curriculum for education. There are those who …

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 …

Stability And Change In Self-Conceptions As A Function Of Perceived Consistency Of Evaluations Among Significant Others, Alan Mcevoy

Dissertations

This study represents an attempt to empirically test a theoretical model explicating the contingencies associated with stability and change in self-conceptions among highschool students. Specifically, this investigation is concerned with the cumulative and isolated impact of perceived parental, teacher, and peer expectations on student self-conceptions over time.

The basic postulate is that patterns of stability and change in self-conceptions are a function of the degree of perceived consistency in the expectations and evaluations of significant others. The data were supportive of the consistency model and suggest that some groups of significant others have a greater impact on the self-conceptualizing process …

Western News, November 20, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Chicanos Visit Here Today, WMU Short of its Goal, Trustees Meet Here Friday, Present Patron's Choice Act II, Center Displays Tibetan Artifacts, Establish Special Manske Award, Libraries; Student Center Set Thanksgiving Vacation Hours, Plan Grad Student Employment Forum, Cagers Host Panama Team, Plan To Expand Share-A-Ride

Social Service And Urban-Renewal: A Case Illustration, Brian J. Langdon, Norman N. Goroff

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The city of Stamford, Connecticut has an Urban Renewal project as have most Urban centers. The Family Relocation Divison of Stamford's Urban Redevelopment Commission (URC) entered into a contract with the Family and Children's Services (FCS) to provide one day a week consultation to the Relocation staff and client services to the families in the renewal area. This consultation involved in-service training programs geared toward helping the relocation staff increase their skills in identifying problems within families and in assisting families to obtain help. As a result of this consultation, the relocation workers frequently would discuss the problems of the …

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 …

Relocation Of Vancouver's Chinatown Residents Under Urban Renewal, Richard Nann

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Introduction. This is a study of the relocation patterns of Chinese-Canadian residents in an area undergoing urban renewal in Vancouver in the late 1960's. The study shows the inadequacies of simplistic social planning. The study indicates the need to understand the variety of responses to forced relocation, based on social class, the stage in the family life cycle and ethnicity. The study points out the different ways various families view the old neighborhood and the Chinese community as a whole, and, as part of this, how they view urban renewal. The study shows how housing and residential preferences relate to …