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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 …

Gemeinschaft Vs. Gesellschaft In A Finnish New Town, Stanley F. Wiseman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

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This article has a dual purpose: (1) to describe report on the creation and progress of one of the most famous New Towns, Tapiola, in Finland, and (2) to "operationalize" in this scene the dual concepts of Ferdinand Tbnnies' Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, or al they have come to be identified modernly, cimunity and contract bureaucracy. (T~nnies, 1963:12-25) This approach is used because the major attempt in the world today to restore the peopleoriented element of Geeinschaft to local government is being taken in the New Town setting, and one of the most successful (according to …

Social Equality And The Housing Allowance Approach To Assisting The Poor, Elizabeth Huttman, John Huttman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This report discusses the role housing assistance has played in the United States in decreasing social inequality of America's poor, and then, in more detail, discusses the degree to which a housing allowance program, now being experimented with, might do a better job of diminishing social inequality. The report is based on the author's ten years of research on subsidized housing programs, especially public housing, new towns, housing for the elderly, and most recently, the HUD experymental housing allowance program and European housing allowance programs.

Residential Alienation, Home Ownership And The Limits Of Shelter Policy, Peter Marcuse

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

There is greater public confusion over housing policy today than there has been in any comparable period in the last thirty years. The Nixon-Ford administration's wholesale program terminations and budget slashes only cloak the problem temporarily. Everyone agrees that the ostrich ought to get his head out of the sand, but few agree where he should go once he doel so. Housing allowances, at this point, seem to many the best answei; at least they haven't been proven wanting yet. But others disagree, and certainly there is reason to be wary.

Environmental Influences On Decisions Regarding Structure And Function Of Homes For The Aged, Jordan I. Kosberg

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Many of the stereotypes of homes for the aged* are carryovers from the past. By and large, these homes had rather limited objectives which revolved around the notion that homes should be custodial institutions. It can be said that these institutions had been extensions of the poor farm, giving shelter (and little more) to the aged who had nowhere else to go. In the past, social norms required grown children to care and provide for their aged parents, and the three-generation family under one roof was common-place. The nature of American society during these years (before urbanization and large-scale industrialization) …

The Impact Of Urban Removal From A Child's Point Of View, L. K. Northwood

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

It is the premise of this paper that forced urban resettlement has more devastating consequences for children and their families than the usual voluntary moving process. The moving process, whether forced or voluntary, involves the following phases: a decision to change the place of residence, an exploration of housing opportunities in various areas, the final selection of one of these, activities associated with making the move, and activities associated with getting settled in the new house and neighborhood.

Western News, October 30, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Campus Bicentennial Plans 'Unrivaled', 47 Drives In One!, English Teaching Conference Friday, Jewish History Expert To Visit, Slate Foreign Language Exams, Faculty and Staff Motor Vehicle Registration Here November 3-18, Plan Old House Workshop, Volleyball Here; Others on Road, Wisconsin Win Boosts Harriers

Western News, October 9, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Job Search Series Here, Hike Hospital; Medical Rates, Car Pooling Interest Up, 77 in Career English Program, Alumni To Give 5 Teaching Excellence Awards Saturday, Health Center Issues List, Administration to Resume Roles in Faculty Senate, D. C. Correspondent to Lecture Here, AAUP Wants $12.5 Million; Salary Demands Total 37%, Euell Gibbons To Speak Here, Offer Roommate Matching Plan

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

Vocational Personality Type, Personality Characteristics, And Satisfaction With College Major: An Investigation Of Holland's Theory, Kent Allen Laudeman

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The United States' "Guest Workers": A Case Study Of Korean Temporary Workers On Guam, Rose Marie T. Franklin

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Teacher Roles In England: A Study Of Differential Teacher Socialization, James D. Jones

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Admitted Non-Enrolled Students At Kalamazoo Valley Community College For The 1974 Fall Semester, Laurence Bruce Kocher

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Problem Of Differential Treatment Of Males And Females In Juvenile Court, Nancy A. Woods

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Systems Approach To Operationalizing Community Education, George S. Wood Jr.

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Western News, July 24, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Summer Session Enrollment is Up Again, Propose Paper Recycling Unit, Auditorium; Herald Ads Honored, Students Take Part in Summer Seminar, Family Production Coming to Shaw, Family Production Coming to Shaw, Annual Bronco Golf Outing is Monday, Oil Company Awards Grant, Campus Calendar, Job Openings, Doctoral Examinations Announced

Ten-Second Reviews, Betty L. Hagberg

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

No abstract available.

Western News, July 10, 1975, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: New FM Radio Station is On the Air, Red Cross Blood Drive on Monday, Tribute Paid to Housemothers, Fund Provides for Special Ed Grants, Make Sure it goes First Class, Photo Exhibit Continues this Month, Design Center Wins Award, Book and Tool Exhibit Today, New Information Center Opens

University Magaizine Vol. 1 No. 2, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• Letters To The Editor • WMU China Trip • Campus Scenes • Entertainment • President's Club • Alumni News • Mentor-Mentee Program • Meet Charles Starring • Bronco Sports • Class Notes • In Memoriam

Barriers To Knowledge For Practice: The Casework Effectiveness Dilemma, Alan Siman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Within the social work community there exists an acknowledged need for evaluating the effectiveness of casework services. This need developed and was sustained over time because of pressure exerted by the profession for internal accountability: understanding practice to improve intervention and insure professional growth. But more recently, evaluation endeavors arose from pressure to demonstrate external accountability: the need to prove the validity of casework services. This shift was produced by the change in casework financing from private voluntary contributions to public tax dollars. Claims made in the early 1960's that expansion of casework services could reduce existing, and prevent future, …

Therapists Or Helpers? Notes On A Youth-Type Free Clinic, Michael W. Agopian, Robert W. Dellinger, Gilbert Geis

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This paper builds upon a helpful typology of free clinics that divides then into four major kinds - the street, neighborhood, youth, and sponsored. While the typology tends to weave among characteristics of clientele, locale, and source of support in setting up its units, it nonetheless has the advantage of being based on an empirical assessment of the major forms of clinic operations through the country. Youth clinics - the type that particularly concerns us here - are defined as "generally organized by adults, service clubs, or official boards... because of their concern about drug use among high school students." …

The Welfare Calculus Allocations And Utilization Within The American States, John E. Tropman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Within the history of the American states, the attitude toward "welfare" had been fundamentally ambivalent. On the one hand there is a great thrust in this country toward charity, and toward helping the poor. Much is given each year to United Funds across the country (860 million in 1972-73), and the Christmas listing by the New York Times of the 100 "neediest cases" results in much spontaneous offering of aid. On the other hand, Americans are singularly suspicious of institutionalizing this impulse. These suspicions leave the United States behind other comparable countries in providing social welfare benefits. Indeed, so suspicious …

Program Research As Social Practice, Harris Chaiklin

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Excerpt from the full-text article:

What is done with the information developed by any researcher involves ethical and political considerations out of his control. In administrative research the sponsor has been able to dictate all conditions. We believe that this has contributed to the crisis in confidence about whether or not developing knowledge makes a difference in solving the problems of this world. It is time for professional societies to take more responsibility for the behavior of their members and to provide them with more protection.

Journal Of Sociology & Social Welfare Vol. 2, No. 4 (Summer 1975)

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• The Welfare Calculus: Allocations and Utilization Within The American States - JOHN E. TROPMAN, pp 416
• The Politics of Funding: Human Needs and Social Welfare - ROBERT F. KRONICK, pp 436
• The Socially Constructive Aspects of Outside Agency in Community Decision Making in a Rural Area - BARRY R. GORDON, DANIEL I. RUBENSTEIN, pp 451
• Evaluating Explorations and Demonstrations for Planning in Criminal Justice - LEONARD RUTMAN, pp 460
• Client Costs and Early Discontinuance from a Community-Basec Treatment Program - RONALD A. FELDMAN, MORTIMER GOODMAN, JOHNS. WODARSKI, WALLACE J. GINGERICH, pp 469
• Barriers to Knowledge for Practice: …

The Politics Of Funding: Human Needs And Social Welfare, Robert F. Kronick

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Sociological theory has provided two models that attempt to explain social power and decision making in America, the elite model (Mills) and the pluralist model. Mills saw power in America like particles dispersed in a triangle--with more and more power at the top, but more people at the base of the triangle. For Mills there was a powerful elite that ruled almost like a monarchy and decision making on all fronts was vested in them. Rebellion as utilized in Merton's paradigm would turn this triangle upside down in setting up new goals and new means, as well as distributing power …

The Socially Constructive Aspects Of Outside Agents In Community Decision-Making In A Rural Area, Barry R. Gordon, Daniel I. Rubenstein

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The "outside-change agent" is dangerous, something to be feared (based on past experiences, long since blurred by boredom and powerlessness) and not taken into the community. The outsider offers few, if any, tangible immediately useable resources -- only promises and fancy talk. Limited experience has taught the Appalachian that promises fade into misery and fancy talk to poverty. The self-fulfilling prophesy of inhospitality and disbelief in oneself, turn the Appalachian against the change agent and challenge the agent to leave the area out of self-felt persistent futility.