Bureau of Applied Social Research records, 1938-1977

[Examples of data available about kind of audiences government agencies may reach by sponsoring radio programs, such as availability of people, general listening habits, station and program preference.]

[Discusses availability of people as listeners, information on station coverage and program structure. Questionnaire to stations included: What America Listened to on Wednesday, Dec. 4.]

[From interviews, which are given verbatim, two major themes were found in the various self-improvement programs. They offered explanations of psychological facts and they appealed to the listener to overcome difficulties or to accept unchangeable situations. The resultant good or bad effects upon the listener are discussed.]

[ A discussion of the total business setting which decides whether or not a song is to become a hit- Tin Pan Alley. A sketch of the life story of a popular song with emphasis on plugging of songs and how it is carried out. See also "The Popular Music Industry" by MacDougald, pp. 65-109 in Radio Research 1941.]

[Discussion and report on how to better the Hit Parade rating system which measures relative popularity of songs.]

[A comparison of Hit Parade ratings, using different methods. Description of moves of five places or more in one week by Hit Parade songs. How eight songs moved. Hit Parade weaknesses.]

[ (The People's Choice: Erie County Study: Sandusky Study) (note, there was no report submitted)]

[A content analysis of the socioeconomic aspirations expressed by the characters, background, plot and general philosophy of magazine stories and presumably aroused in the readers.]

[Desc: A scale was set up based on questions which reflected people's spending habits. B-0092-2 consists of interviewers' comments on the spending test survey.]

[Desc: Would customers feel Bloomingdale's service to them was curtailed, would prestige of store be lowered, do financial returns of restaurant justify its upkeep? Stratified by income of 421 respondents.]

[Report not available]

[A chart listing 11 separate sets of radio stations-all stations in U.S. and territories included. Discussion of station sampling procedure.]

[Preliminary analysis: number of hours and what language, types of programs, news items-domestic or foreign, drama-local or foreign, types of national appeals, etc.]

[This paper presents available evidence on the problems of such broadcasting. A questionnaire was filled out by 66 specially appointed listeners covering 800 hours of foreign language broadcasts across the country. They also could present summaries of their observations. Published. See pp. 3-64 in Radio Research 1941.]

[1 is missing, 2&3 are empty (copies in Vienna), Codebook, Questionnaire instructions. Report not submitted]

[A discussion of how the decision for whom to vote in the 1941 mayoralty election will be determined by racial and national fears and prejudices. Based on 57 detailed interviews among Jewish, Italian, Irish and German people.]

[This sets forth the social and commercial problems created by daytime radio serials, reviews what is known, and suggests areas which need further exploration. The research methods which might be used are also discussed.]

[Based on survey of 5000 women, this gives a broad general picture of women's daytime listening habits and the effect of listening upon actual use of product advertised.]

[Hughes was a commentator who took over Raymond Graham Swing's time spot on the radio. This is a discussion of his selection and treatment of topics, comprehensibility, voice, opinion shaping, and comparison with other commentators. How to sell the product advertised on his program is also discussed.]

[310 interviewed, questionnaire included. Attitudes toward stomach troubles, remedies.]

[75 respondents were asked to compare commercials and were then interviews about them and about their own dentifrice use. Scripts and questionnaire included.]

[100 women heard four sets of Kolynos Tooth Powder commercials and were then interviewed about them and about their own dentifrice use. Scripts and questionnaire included. (missing file)]

[76 people interviewed, questionnaire included. Problems posed were straight talk versus dramatized technique, personal versus straight descriptive approach commercial, as well as what properties of Bisodol should be stressed, sketchy versus detailed. (missing file)]

[Topics covered are who buys vitamins, how much do they spend, brands bought. Questionnaires included. Problems with the data supplied by Industrial Surveys Co. are discussed. (missing file)]

[Assembles available information on whether and what kind of daytime musical program would reach middle-aged, middle-class women. Main source of data: survey of 5000 women in 1941 by Office of Radio Research.]

[This contains several reports dealing with the characteristics of Saturday Evening Post readers.]

[193 persons interviewed by questionnaire and conversational interviews. Report discusses type of people interviewed, what greeting cards mean to people, resistance to them, cards as merchandise, the dealer. Questionnaires included.]

[Based on 60 detailed interviews, a tentative analysis tries to answer such questions as: Do people have more subtle desires to which we could link the use of a refrigerator? Could we mobilize psychological forces which usually are not thought of in refrigerator ads?]

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[A statistical picture of distribution of newspapers and radio stations, and some of their main characteristics in the whole country.]

[An analysis of 93 1-1 communities for which newspaper ownership of more than 50% is claimed. (1-1 community: radio stations and newspaper associated.) Power, frequency, population, newspaper circulation, network affiliation are variables taken into account.]

[Discusses in what communities newspapers disappear and the role in this disappearance played by radio and newspaper-radio affiliations.]

[50 radio stations were selected which were associated with a newspaper. 50 stations and 50 newspapers were selected which were not associated or owned one by the other. Then the 50 associated and non-associated stations were compared. Same was done for the 2 groups of newspapers.]

[Report based on 264 interviews in 13 cities, concerns attitude toward drugstores and pharmacists.]

[intensive interviews were conducted toward a better understanding of the function of Life magazine as a medium of communication and as a social and political magazine.]

[Perceptions of Life's editorial policy, Life compared with other magazines, why some don't read it, how thoroughly it is read as a news magazine, as a non-news magazine, as a picture magazine. Based on 200 interviews. Questionnaire included.]

[General reading habits of Life, Saturday Evening Post, Collier's and Liberty readers; relation of multiplicity of magazine reading to intensity of reading.]

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[Excerpts from three broadcasts were studied to find their relative merit in terms of audience appeal and their effectiveness in "scotching" rumors. Program Analyzer and supplementary questionnaire were used. Questionnaire included.]

[To establish the appeal of radio health programs, 14 people were interviewed and these interviews are given verbatim. A combination of factors was found to explain their continued interest.]

[Previous discussions of customs and wine drinking, social factors involved, special characteristics of wine drinkers, types of drinkers and the marketing of wine are summarized. Topics for further study are suggested. Original discussions are contained in interim reports under B-0160.]

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[copy in Vienna. This report discusses the test group, their "like" and "dislike" reactions, reactions to Eleanor's voice and to the program as a whole. 18 women were in the sample.]

[Based on data obtained from Life, Inc., and Hearst Publications, Inc., this report investigates the changes in people's reading habits as a result of Pearl Harbor, especially with regard to the reading of nonfiction articles concerned with the war.]

[Discussion of unfavorable aspects of the programs and of technical problems.]

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[Summary of findings of a reader test of 15 people to determine reactions to characters, plot, etc., of readers of a preliminary version of a novelette. Interviews and questionnaire included.]

[163 interviews were conducted with Protestant, Catholic and Jewish men and women to find out if the wedding ring on the Golden Wedding (whiskey) trademark was offensive to their religious and social feelings. Questionnaire included.]

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[The successful commercial use of radio rests upon an understanding of the interrelationship of the commercial and the informing and entertaining aspects of radio. This memorandum then, deals with "general psychology of radio, its power as a selling force, and some particular aspects of retailers' use of radio."]

[This report explores the meaning of influence in a community and its relation to the reading of Time magazine. In two field trips 86 interviews were secured from three groups of people: 1) influential people, 2) Time subscribers, 3) random people. Suggestions for further research are made and interview schedules are included.]

[315 people were interviewed, showing American Magazine steering a middle course between Cosmopolitan and Saturday Evening Post. Among people who read American Magazine, four main gratifications came to light.]

[Outlines responses of 70 Blacks interviewed to pamphlet itself and to idea conveyed by it that they should strongly support the war effort.]

[200 housewives were interviewed as to how local stores' advertising could be made most helpful with emphasis on use of radio. Questionnaire included.]

[A discussion of how people felt about Kate Smith herself and in relation to her bond drive.]

[On the basis of interviews conducted with persons who bought bonds from her and with persons who heard her but did not buy "some of the strong points of her campaign and types of resistance she encountered" are indicated.]

["A report of the public's choice as to who is best qualified to sell bonds on the radio, in which Kate Smith gets her share of attention." 978 people-a cross-section of the population of Greater New York-were interviewed.]

[Explores some of the general aspects of the radio marathon and then analyzes Kate Smith as a war bond salesman. Intensive interview guide (100 cases) and polling questionnaire (1000 cases) included.]

[Part I-A survey of the literature of morale studies. Supplementary report: Music in Industry-a survey of the literature of research on music in industry. Extensive bibliographies included in both sections.]

[No report available]

[Tide was an "entertaining" business magazine. Survey gained ideas on how different types of business executives varied in their opinions of Tide and its rival, Printer's Ink and on what problems needed further research; 56 interviewed, questionnaire included. See also B-0220.]

[218 respondents were interviewed for the purpose of determining whether the picture of the black man on the Green River trademark connoted, (an inferior whiskey" or a "whiskey just for colored people." Interviewing was done in five cities of the deep South. Questionnaire included.]

[60 people were questioned on whether enough of the old trademark remained in the new to make it easily identifiable. Questionnaire included.]

[This was a comic book sponsored by the American Jewish Committee. About 350 persons were interviewed in groups of about 10-given preliminary questionnaire, shown comic, answered questionnaire a second time, then group discussion. Study # 1 discussed the reactions to the comic book as a whole, reactions to specific pictures, and whether or not comic books could be accepted as authoritative.]

[After a single reading of the comic "There Are No Master Races" the average person's information score rose substantially. However, willingness to accept persons of other races was not much affected.]

[334 interviews completed to determine the extent to which one issue of the cartoon strip "The Story of Labor" was read by trade union members in their union publication, to identify the readers' characteristics, and to estimate the readers' comprehension of the strip. Questionnaire included.]

[This study tried to determine the comprehension, miscomprehension or non-comprehension by 300 respondents of a cartoon. Questionnaire included.]

[1) Magazine Section-an analysis of American minority and foreign groups in popular magazine fiction. 2) Daytime serials- an analysis of previous study material as to treatment of minorities in daytime serials. 3) Summary of the literature on anti-minority prejudice. 4) Newsreels-an analysis of treatment of minority and foreign groups in newsreels. 5) Interviews on anti-minority prejudice in advertising copy. 6) Comic books and anti-minority prejudice.]

[The focused interview will shed light on why an ad is or is not successful, will indicate possible ways to improve the ad, will show how the ad affects readers' attitudes toward the company. The appendix discusses the three processes involved in this type of interview.]

[Discusses how audiences reacted to the film as recorded by the L-S analyzer, by group interviews, by "before and after" attitude tests, and by an "opinion of the film" questionnaire.]

[Summarizes what is known about opinion leadership and its relation to magazine reading based upon two surveys.]

[A detailed report on how the choice of towns for the study was narrowed to three.]

[24 people listened to a transcription of an Al Schacht broadcast, filled out questionnaires covering background information and their general impressions of him and then were interviewed in some detail as to their reasons for liking or disliking him.]

[This study tries to answer such questions as "What do its readers think of Tide's editorial policy? What articles do they like? What are the high spots in Tide? To what extent is it really read?" 395 advertising, manufacturing, and business executives were interviewed in detail. See also B-0210.]

[Questionnaires filled out by 384 people were used to determine which of four commercials was best remembered.]

["The object of this study was to gauge the degree of public receptivity toward the proposed subscription radio plan, as indicated both by the degree of interest in the plan itself and by the degree of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with current radio offerings." Questionnaire included. 1000 interviews in upper 3/4 of all economic levels around New York City were conducted.]

[14 programs of this radio series which portrayed a community service organization helping a person in distress were reviewed. This memorandum offers "observations which may be of some practical value in the planning of a similar program series in the future."]

[This memorandum was designed to show why "Finders Keepers" should be kept as a morning program rather than return to daytime serial format and how to strengthen its particular appeal.]

[This paper "defines the audience potential for a non-story program and suggests a 'double-attack' approach in a revamped 'Finders Keepers' program leading eventually to a new policy for NBC in building its morning audience."]

[Based on interviews with 3500 women who listened to morning radio programs, this study describes the behavior of the audience and gives a psychological interpretation of that behavior. Non-listeners are also considered. See also, "Research for Action" by Lazarsfeld and Dinennan in Communications Research 1948-1949.]

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[This report contains tables which list 1) the number of counties with radio stations in each state, 2) state totals for counties with radio stations, 3) assignment of ballots in counties with radio stations and 4) counties without radio stations. A complete list by state of all cities and towns in counties which have radio stations is also included.]

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["This study is the first ... which has attempted to get any direct information about the impact of comic book reading on children." 100 children were intensively interviewed to get some impression of the motives in and effects of comic book reading among different groups in relation to their general behavior, interests and attitudes. Interview guide included. See also pp. 3-50 in Communications Research, 1948-1949.]

[Six chains of three men were used to discover how much of the original contents were communicated and what additions and distortions were introduced in each retelling of a cartoon about minority groups within the labor movement.]

[60 intensive interviews were conducted to get at the basic problem, the function of the modern newspaper for its readers. Questionnaire included. Published. See pp. 111- 129 in Communications Research, 1948-1949.]

[A report on the existing materials covering the role of professional personnel, organized interests, economics, government, comparative studies, and proposals for changing the control structure.]

[150 men were interviewed as to their understanding of three "Mr. Biggott" cartoons. Interview guide included. ]

[Three "Mr. Biggott" cartoons were shown to 692 women in Decatur, Illinois. From the interview data gathered, it was possible to study who did, and who did not understand them]

[Methodological comparisons are made between B-0250-1 and B-0250-2 which used two different techniques to test the understandability of these three "Mr. Biggott cartoons. Questionnaire for B-0250-2 included. See also "The Analysis of Deviant Cases in Communications Research" by Kendall and Wolf, pp. 152-179 in Communications Research, 1948-1949.]

[312 firemen were interviewed. Questionnaire included.]

[An analysis of data collected on aspects of the job other than pensions.]

[This study determined people's reactions to a meat-packing company making soap. Questionnaires included.]

[Mail questionnaires sent to 2505 executives asked them to list in order of preference the business and general news magazines they read regularly.]

[Reading preferences of 602 textile mill executives among 14 selected trade magazines were solicited.]

[This report represents the preferences of 1024 textile mill executives among 14 selected trade magazines. Questionnaire included.]

[Arguments on both sides are presented, then statistics picturing the state of employment of musicians, finally a review of the musical interests and activities of the American people since the advent of radio and broadcasting.]

[An analysis of serious radio programs available in the New York area and the extent to which they were heard was made to help determine whether Columbia University should operate an FM station.]

[After careful study a recommendation was made that no further analysis of this panel be made as the nature of the sample and structure of the study precluded the derivation of valid and reliable conclusions from the available data.]

[Report not available]

[Analysis of Flint, Michigan, newspapers as to their treatment of the UAW-CIO strike against General Motors Corporation. Both public and union newspapers were studied.]

[This presents a preliminary questionnaire with results of the pretest interviews along with recommendations for revision of the questionnaire and a proposal for its city-wide administration.]

[This report attempts to ascertain what goes on in people's minds when they read newspaper ads and hear radio commercials. It also considers how people are attracted to these advertisements, and the general attitudes of individuals toward them. Questionnaires and sample advertisements included.]

[28 women were shown a selected newspaper advertisement and questioned immediately about their response to that advertisement. The respondents then heard an advertisement of the same product on the phonograph in an attempt to analyze what effect the use of each media has on the response to an advertisement. In half the interviews the order was reversed so that the respondents heard the advertisement before reading it.]

[In addition to primary emphasis on "immediate" psychological responses to the two media, this study investigates how people come to pay attention to the advertisements in their newspaper and on the air and it seeks further information on the attitudes people have developed toward newspaper and radio advertising in general. 700 housewives interviewed. Questionnaire included.]

[All members 18 and older in a random sample of 800 households in Oneonta, New York, and contiguous rural area were to be surveyed. Object: to obtain statistics on the health status and health needs of the community. Questionnaires included.]

[Re-examines question of ethnic voting by relating sex, age, economic status, and education to ethnic groups: Jews, Blacks, Italians, and Irish.]

[Forty-one people interviewed expressed favorable attitudes to the product-45 rpm record player and records, more unfavorable ones to the general situation and the ad.]

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[This is a report on attitudes and opinions toward installment buying in which 103 people were interviewed.]

[Five depth interviews were conducted with housewives on different economic levels to determine factors which influence purchase of ready-to-eat cereals and to provide incidental information about cereal eating and buying behavior. Interviews given in full and analyzed to illustrate the kind of data this type of interview affords.]

[This pilot study, based on material gathered for B-0331-1, evaluated the effectiveness of Pyequick ads in terms of feelings, images, thoughts and buying dispositions stimulated by these ads and also dealt with specific psychological resistances to them.]

[Report not available]

[I. VD attitudes in the community-Herzog; 2 waves of 1000 interviews each in between which a comprehensive educational program was staged to provide systematic information on knowledge, interests, and attitudes of the general population with respect to syphilis and to ascertain the educational efforts' effectiveness. II. The VD sufferer and his motives-Morsell; 1000 interviews of persons who came to a VD clinic for help. Questionnaires for I and II included.]

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[ This is an analysis of organized group radio listening and the structure of French radio at the end of 1949. Also includes a statement outlining a long-range program of international communications research and the kinds of problems which would be met whenever it was undertaken.]

[Using data obtained in studies conducted in France, Austria and Finland, this experiment was to provide information leading to 1) the ability to arrive at a single estimate of the size of the VOA audience in each country, 2) the use of a minimal number of questions to provide such an absolute figure and 3) the possibility of designing a scale of intensity of listening to the VOA.]

[Pre-test of four slogans for possible use in a whiskey advertisement, focusing on interest in and comprehension of them. 400 men interviewed. Questionnaire 'included.]

[230 men interviewed, questionnaire included.]

[This report reviews the procedure used and presents the findings. Questionnaire included. 931 respondents.]

[Three Parts. Repeat of earlier mail questionnaire survey. Questionnaire included. Section I summarizes overall statistics and analyzes primary significance of survey results. Section II compares attitudes of underwriters. Section III contains all their written-in suggestions.]

[Trial run to provide a base for estimating cost of further work; information for charting the advertising effectiveness analysis of North Carolina newspapers.]

[Three Parts. Depth interviews administered to individuals of varying age, sex, occupation, and socioeconomic status. Complete interviews included.]

[300 individuals, mostly male radio listeners, were interviewed on their attitudes toward the people, ways of life and foreign policies of the four above countries. All B-0370 reports on Greece are based on the same 300 qualitative interviews.]

[This covers the role of radio in the lives of the Greeks, including their image of radio, listening habits and preferences and attitudes toward foreign broadcasts.]

[This is a comparative evaluation of the three media, in an attempt to assess the relative advantages and disadvantages of each of these means of communication in Greece.]

[A consideration of the illiterate tavern owner who may own the only radio in a village, and the priest and teacher who can read the newspaper.]

[ 300 qualitative interviews "designed to study the comparative role of the several mass media and face-to-face communications in the lives of various segments of the Turkish population."]

[115 interviews were conducted with four key groups in Turkish society in order to study radio listening in general and foreign broadcast listening in particular.]

[An analysis of newspaper reading habits and preferences of the same four key groups, reading patterns of foreign publications, and comparison of reading of American and other foreign language publications.]

[This report describes their patterns of moviegoing, reactions to foreign newsreels and reactions to foreign documentaries.]

[The role domestic mass media played in their lives was determined.]

[A survey of personal contacts among members of these key groups with foreigners-domestic contacts, those abroad, and impressions of Americans.]

[A study of the potential audiences within an Arab country. Based on 300 qualitative interviews.]

[An analysis of the attitudes and communications pattems of four numerically and structurally significant groups in Jordan. Based on about 150 qualitative interviews.]

[The psychological and political contexts of the communications behavior of four occupational groups are studied. Based on 331 qualitative interviews.]

[Their communications behavior is studied in an attempt to determine the effect of attitudes upon receptivity to foreign broadcasts in Egypt.]

[Based on interviews with controlled sample of 300 persons. Sets up political typology and studies attitudes and communications behavior in relation to that typology.]

[A study of U.S. and Russian partisans in the Iranian population to establish the relationship between political opinion and mass media behavior; 201 qualitative interviews.]

[201 qualitative interviews conducted to form a description of adherents to the extreme left and the extreme right.]

[ A statistical summary of studies of communication and opinion in four Middle Eastern countries, emphasizing differences related to nationality and education.]

[This report brings together and codifies the implications of the entire communications behavior study (B-0370) which are most relevant for the International Information Administration's program in the Near and Middle East. The three parts of this report make suggestions for the handling of the media along the Soviet periphery, deal with the content and presentation of the IIA communications and discuss the best ways of communicating with different nationality groups.]

[100 pilot interviews, 28 observations of actual shopping behavior, with particular reference to refrigerators and television sets. Main objectives were to find some major problems in this area, to discover hypotheses, to test further procedures. Questionnaires included.]

[250 high school students' essays in their own handwriting were graded, then regraded when all were rewritten in uniform mechanical script.]

[15 depth interviews conducted to find out resistances to soluble coffee and the bases for those resistances and also to determine the factors contributing to its acceptance. Complete interviews included.]

[An exploratory study based on data from observations of discussion sessions among 9 management and 15 labor persons at General Cable, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, from informal conversation, answers to questionnaires, and from group evaluation of the course. Questionnaires included.]

[Overall problem was: Do people want another newspaper? 46 personal, unstructured interviews on general climate of Harrisburg to set up hypotheses, to find direction for solution of problem, to develop techniques for its solution.]

[Six publications conducting a sustained campaign against world federalism as one aspect of a Communist conspiracy were analyzed as to the arguments used in opposing "World Government."]

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[Using data obtained primarily from more than 60 West German cities bombed in World War 11, this report establishes a method for estimating the population loss of a city as a result of housing destruction.]

[Using data obtained primarily from the local statistical office in Warsaw, this report illustrates the use of demographic and transit data in analyzing the growth and development of war-damaged cities.]

[This report discusses the influence of wartime urban destruction on population distribution as compared to the long-range historical trend in population distribution.]

[This report deals with further problems concerning social effects of air-borne destruction in cities with emphasis on its demographic aspects. It examines the physical effects of destruction on a city's transportation system, communications facilities and utilities in order to determine the social repercussions of this damage.]

[Purpose of study was "to examine existing studies and literature for techniques of measuring morale, and availability of data useful for the measurement and analysis of morale."]

[Based on statistical data, these reports attempt to develop mathematical formulae for the measurement of degree of urbanization and societal stability.]

[A discussion of the application of mathematical tools to counts and measurements in urban sociology.]

[Discusses the emergence of the modern city in an international context-economic functions performed, identifying characteristics, patterns of land-use, city-region relationships. Suggested research. Bibliography.]

[This is an attempt to differentiate between workers performing production functions and workers performing maintenance functions and a consideration of the implications of such a division. Based on Canadian and U.S. census data.]

[A consideration of the stability of relationships among cities over a period of time, and of the stability of industrial relationships within single cities over a period of time.]

[This paper is concerned with a descriptive survey of the contents of the Russian census describing in detail the census of 1926 and to a lesser extent those of 1897, 1917, 1920, and 1923. An explanation of definitions of terms is included.]

[An attempt to determine whether the difference in definition of skilled workers in the U. S. and U. S. S.R. is related to differences in technological and socioeconomic structures. Based on census data.]

[An enumeration of changes in the technological and socioeconomic structure of five Russian cities which have taken place during rapid urbanization. Includes discussion of usefulness of Soviet statistics.]

[A discussion of empirical examples of urban growth and alternative means of estimating such growth.]

[This study is an attempt to provide some pertinent information about the socioeconomic development of Korea and to relate such development to the growth of Korean cities. Based on census data.]

[A progress report and prospectus for the future of a system for filing quantitative data for the cities of the world with over 100,000 population.]

[This discusses behavioral and attitudinal indicators of expected change in socioeconomic status which appeared in questionnaires administered to car owners in Peoria, Illinois, and San Bernardino, California.]

[This report deals with the potential usefulness of the World Urban Resources Index for comparative, systematic analysis and stresses the importance of the context, or universe, of a particular city in such analysis.]

[An evaluation of methods of calculation of rates of growth intended for use in large-scale projects.]

[A discussion of operationalizing Otis Dudley Duncan's cost-utility framework.]

[Age structure and sex composition of urban populations. Demographic profiles of some cities. Intercity variation in demographic structure. Based on data on file in World Urban Resources Index.]

[A study of the demographic structure of 94 Mediterranean cities and their economic roles. Based on World Urban Resources Index data.]

[Vols. I-V, Five volumes are: I. Data Collection Forms and related Material, 28 pp.; II. Reports and Memoranda, 88 pp.; III. The Harvard Refugee Project, 58 pp.; IV. Interviewer Hints for Wringer Interviews, 38 pp.; V. Bibliography of the Literature concerning the use of Interviewing in Selected Fields, 77 p.]

[26 men were intensively interviewed to uncover motivations which might not come out by more standard questionnaire method and to develop a questionnaire which could test and elaborate upon hypotheses developed as a result of the study.]

[250 depth interviews in Buffalo of women who had switched from one to the other.]

[This study focussed on the audience for the posters prepared by the Institute for American Democracy and the experiences of the subjects as they saw the material. 400 bus riders in Springfield, Massachusetts, were intensively interviewed using mainly open-ended questionnaires.]

[Based on 401 interviews with bus riders in Springfield, Massachusetts, this report evaluates audience reaction to a series of posters prepared by the Anti-Defamation League designed to improve attitudes toward minority groups. It discusses such factors as who and how many people saw the posters, and the viewers' comprehension and recall of these posters.]

[This report includes a progress report on the study of the 1950 Congressional elcctions by William McPhee, and two papers by Philip Ennis and Alan Meyer. Meyer's paper "The Independent Voter" discusses the definition and characteristics of the independent voter, while Ennis's "Contextual Factors in Voting Decisions" examines how differing social and political contexts affect standards of judgement and voting behavior.]

[A manual for public affairs officers on how to run an evaluational research project: opinion leaders, obtaining representative sample, questionnaire construction, interviewing techniques and interviewer selection, use of panels, observation and participant observer, and analyzing the content of communications.]

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[Methodological considerations include: opinion leadership comparison in urban-rural Sweden; the snowball technique; identifying international audience; Voice of America audience in Norway; content analysis and "competitive broadcasting" to Germany; testing Voice of America programs; latent content of broadcasts.]

[A study of non-white patients in Mississippi.]

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[352 women registered interest in or dislike of the program on the Program Analyzer, answered a questionnaire and took part in group discussion. Questionnaire included. Report not available]

[Why Families Move, Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1955. Inteviews with a stratified sample of approximately 1000 in Philadelphia provided information for this study which focussed on characteristics of mobile and stable areas, characteristics of mobile households, and reasons for moves given by mobile households. Questionnaire and bibliography included.]

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[This is concerned with the problems of training in empirical social research. It proposes to establish the institute as a significant step towards a more adequate training program.]

[Published as part of doctoral dissertation, "The Effects of Training in Social Research on the Development of Professional Attitudes," Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1954.]

[This paper is an attempt to formalize Merton's theoretical reflections. Merton's analysis of homophily with regard to racial attitudes is presented followed by a formalization of this analysis.]

[This paper briefly sketches a model of a research procedure and then explores in detail the general procedure followed at the last stages of an investigation.This paper is an attempt to formalize Merton's theoretical reflections. Merton's analysis of homophily with regard to racial attitudes is presented followed by a formalization of this analysis. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[This is a collection of examples from the history of higher education where innovations in advanced learning were proposed and either adopted or defeated. The purpose was to obtain information on the conditions under which new institutions become necessary, on how ideas develop into concrete plans, and on the forces that aid or hinder these plans. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[This discussion of panel methods for the investigation of attitudes, and other manifestations of social change, is an attempt to organize some of the major studies and techniques into a consistent developing framework. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[This is a collection of documents dealing with specification of concepts, formal structure of individual and group characteristics, multi-dimensional classification, attribute space, and derived problems. Case material on specific sociological and economic concepts and specific concepts in social psychology and the measurement of change over time are also discussed. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[This is a collection of documents from the Dartmouth Seminar on Concepts and Indices, July 11-25, 1953. Part I: Organization and Basic Themes; Part II: Documentation of the Leading Themes; Part II, A: From Imagery to Index-A Schematic Sequence, Part II, B: The Basic Operational Problems; Part III: Additional Case Materials and Reports. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[This is a collection of various papers from the Seminar on Social Process Analysis. Reports are: "Methods of Panel Analysis"; "Mutual Effects of Statistical Variables"; "Methodology of Repeated Interview Analysis"; "Notes on Impact Analysis"; "Seminar Discussion of the Relation of Panel and Experiment"; "Notes on Models for a Common Type of Attitude Process"; The Multi-Wave Panel as a Quasi-Experiment"; "Uniformities in the Voting Process"; "Formalization of McPhee's Model."]

[This report evaluates the in-service training program of the Bureau. It describes the general position of the program in the overall organization, the methods of obtaining trainees, the actual processes of training and the problems uncovered.]

[Panel analysis is a research technique, a method of collecting information about individuals and studying one major class of change. This is a workbook intended to acquaint students with a variety of panel materials and to furnish them with experience in analyzing and experimenting with such data. Many solved problems are included.]

[This report on the use of case materials and case analysis in American professional training attempts to define what constitutes such materials, and to consider how they may best be analyzed, by a comparative study of several areas in which there has actually occurred use of some such materials and of some adapted educational techniques. RECORD MAY NOT EXIST]

[Impact of Oil Progress Week in 1951, in Bangor, Maine. Effective media, composition of population affected, role of gasoline station personnel and their evaluation of Oil Progress Week. Appendix: sampling procedure. See also B-0461.]

[Surveys available information and makes suggestions for future research. Discusses available information and lack of information on the earliest social contexts of exposure, addiction, and treatment of adolescents.]

[122 people interviewed-random sample of every sixth home in alphabetical list of Quick subscribers in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.]

[This is a study of Quick readers which includes comparative material on their use of other mass media. It is based on interviews with 111 subscribers. Questionnaire included.]

[Twenty-four informal, lengthy conversations about beer drinkers' habits are included and attitudes towards various brands are evaluated.]

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[Discussion of four of Rashevsky's behavioral models (imitative behavior, distribution of wealth, general theory of social distributions, and altruistic and egoistic societies) and their implications for social therapy. Published. See pp. 105-165 in Mathematical Thinking in the Social Sciences, Paul F. Lazarsfeld, ed. Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1954.]

[A model is developed for characterizing the statistical dependence of certain kinds of events such as marriage and voter preference. The model characterizes the degree to which these events proceed from common causes rather than from individual causes.]

[Published.See pp. 5-119 in Developments in Mathematical Psychology, R. Duncan Luce, ed., Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1960.]

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[Based on 1000 returned questionnaires, this study attempts to determine the relationship between demographic factors and listening to Voice of America broadcasts.]

["This report ... is one of a series which summarizes and interprets results from a group of interviews with nationals of Soviet satellite countries..." Each covers listening environment, foreign broadcast listening, attitudinal material.]

[Comparative summary of above reports (B-0444-2-7).]

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[Relations with the U.S. Embassy, with the host government, and problems of script writers working in the village are discussed, based on experiences of American film crews abroad. Objectives are to help field crews adjust to local situations and to provide Washington and embassy administrators with a summary of encountered difficulties.]

[Pilot phase of project which studies 27 Girl Scout Councils. Deals with attitudes toward troop sponsorship, cross-pressures involved, and the problem of limited troops (those sponsored by religious organizations).]

[The focus of this project is "to produce an accurate and current account of the prevailing climate of opinions and practices of local Girl Scout Councils on the matter of troop sponsorship and on the related problem of limited troops." 894 questionnaires returned.]

[This report is a tentative outline for the qualitative analysis of interviews with Polish, Hungarian, and Czechoslovakian defectors to be based on 300 interviews collected by International Public Opinion, Inc.]

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[This is the first of a series of reports concerned with the epidemiologic aspects of hypertension. It deals with the collection and mode of classification of a bibliographic file of titles comprising as complete as possible a coverage of world literature on blood pressure since 1920.]

[This report presents results of the work done since 1950 by the Columbia staff in developing a detailed design for a long term epidemiologic study of the natural history of essential hypertension. Section I outlines the objectives of the program, presenting the rationale for a longterm study; Section II describes the requirements for such a study; Section III outlines the activities of the staff in satisfying these requirements and Section IV sets forth additional steps recommended before proceeding with the long term project.]

[Using Oil Progress Week as a case study, this project examines the extent of attitude change and attitude reinforcement which results from exposure to various media of communication, social position in the community and other social factors. Based on 560 "before and after" interviews, this report describes the events of the Oil Progress Week campaign and the resulting impact on the attitudes of the community towards the oil industry. The report focuses on changes in 10 specific opinions.]

[By applying the technique of latent structure analysis, this report seeks to determine the structure of attitudes toward the oil industry in order to provide a meaningful context in which to study changes in these attitudes brought about by Oil Progress Week. Also discussed are the relationships between opinions and attitudes. The analysis is based on 10 questions asked interviewees before Oil Progress Week.]

[Based on responses to the same questions as analyzed in B-0461-2, the interviews for this report were conducted after Oil Progress Week instead of before. Changes in the relation of general attitude to specific opinions between the two interviews are studied. Some of the social groupings in which favorable constellations of attitudes occur are also identified.]

[This report summarizes in a briefer and less technical manner B-0461-3.]

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[This is a study of which firms give what gifts to whom. There were 519 respondents to questionnaire mailed to a random sample of "Who's Who in Commerce and Industry."]

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[This assesses the nature and strength of current (1954) volunteer and public support for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, in order to ascertain political support for a future program having an emphasis other than the treatment and control of infantile paralysis. 234 volunteer leaders were interviewed and 459 in a sample of 888 rank-and-file volunteers returned mailed questionnaires. Published in revised form as The Volunteers, Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1957.]

[This reformulates the new directions in which communications research should proceed, especially with regard to research on the television media. The report also contains a small sample of significant contributions of past communications research to present (1953) thinking.]

[Forty adult respondents were interviewed in order to analyze and describe socially prevalent concerns relative to children and television. Such topics as "crime and violence in program content," "seeing adults in conflict" and "what is a good children's program" are discussed.]

[The report illuminates ways in which interpersonal relations operate to impede or facilitate the effects of mass media and reviews some of the findings of small group research as an aid in the planning of mass media research.]

[Analyzing articles on television programs and programming appearing during a three-year period in popular and semipopular publications, trade publications and scholarly journals, this report investigates the nature of criticisms of television and attempts to answer "who says what about television and programming?"]

[In order to provide a broader base for the study of contemporary mass media (particularly television) this report investigates some of the significant elements of the historical discussions which have centered around the problem of art versus entertainment. Ideas of such men as Montaigne, Pascal, and Goethe are discussed.]

[This paper provides a preliminary analysis of television's present performance, its potentialities and the problems involved in realizing its potentialities in the area of political communication.]

[The New York State Television Commission was established to study the cost, methods of financing, social and economic consequences of different ways to bring educational television to the public. Part I of this report presents the history of the New York Television Commission based on minutes of meetings, correspondence, and reports; Part II studies and appraises the major assumptions underlying the cornmission's final proposals.]

[What objectives organizations such as Boy Scouts, National Safety Council and YMCA hope to achieve, as well as problems faced in the use of television are discussed.]

[This bibliography comprises an annotated list of research projects conducted on television before 1954. Its sources include all available published material. The references are organized into areas of content, audience, and effects. A section concentrating on children and television is also included.]

[This report studies the organization and operations of seven "public policy councils" or commissions selected by the Implementation Committee on Television to better understand how such groups function. The organizations are also compared and contrasted.]

[This final report summarizes the work of the Implementation Committee and presents a history of the project. Recommendations are made concerning the organization of a Television Development Center.]

[Deals with social and economic problems of evacuation: billeting, human relations in reception communities, re-employment of evacuees, transportation, administration. Uses material on World War II evacuation in Britain and flood disaster evacuation in the Netherlands.]

[This is an attempt to find patterns, based on program type, of television viewing for households as a whole in New Haven. Report includes suggestions which might prove fruitful in future research.]

[Published as The Effects of Leadership, Hanan C. Selvin, Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1960. B-0490-1: Soldiers in 12 training companies were surveyed for frequency of 20 types of leisure activity in order to determine effect of type of company leadership and trainee's age, education and marital status upon such activities. B-0490-2: Appendices, including behavior and leadership questionnaires. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[This is a study of which kinds of dissatisfaction with previous beverages and which precipitating factors are most common among persons who have recently become regular tea drinkers. 282 interviews. Questionnaire included.]

[This report presents the results of an investigation of popular song hits licensed by ASCAP and BMI from 1940-53. Section I comprises summary tables showing the proportion of hit songs licensed by these organizations. Section II consists of annual lists of the 30 most popular song titles in each of seven popularity categories. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[An examination of use of qualitative data in The Academic Mind. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[200 interviews were conducted with families owning television and radio sets in a study of network programming planning and problems for radio in the face of television's growth. Possibilities for the long-run future based on radio's basic and unique resources are discussed.]

[This is a proposal for a program of research to evaluate the degree to which extremist groups or persons on the "right" threaten the traditional personal liberties of American life. Several working papers which discuss such topics as the historical background of reactionary politics, the "pseudo-conservative revolt," the activities of the radical right as a problem for American democracy, the evidence on clusters, syndromes and patterns in social attitudes, and anti-democratic attitudes in America as based on a public opinion poll are also contained in the project file.]

[Questionnaires were answered by 1955 and all previous campers for the study of immediate and long-range changes which occurred as a result of the encampment. There is a detailed discussion of methods of analysis used. Published as Applications of Methods of Evaluation, H. H. Hyman, C. R. Wright and T. H. Hopkins, Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1962.]

[This is an attempt to build a foundation for community conflict theory drawing on studies of communities under stress, research on social organization, and psychological research. Suggestions for future research are included. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[This is an attempt to build a foundation for community conflict theory drawing on studies of communities under stress, research on social organization, and psychological research. Suggestions for future research are included. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[Based on earlier studies of communities under stress, research on social organization and psychological research, this review attempts to clarify recurrent patterns as they are affected by the setting and initiation of controversy, the dynamics of controversy and factors during the course of controversy. Bibliography included.]

[This is an attempt to construct a theory of the development of community controversies, based on a review of existing studies. Includes a suggested mathematical formalization of the theory. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[This is an exploratory study of the determinants of alumni support of Columbia, based on 2053 questionnaires returned.]

[(Shorter version, International Social Science Bulletin, vol. 7 [1955], pp. 417-430.) This discusses how to obtain more objective, reliable information on which evaluations of communications programs can be based. It also provides information on how general research procedures are applied to the special problems faced in evaluating mass media effectiveness.]

[61 interviews were conducted in the New York area with attenders and non-attenders to study changes in leisure life of the suburbanite which affect his role as consumer of the performing arts. Background review of the literature is included.]

[This is a study undertaken to determine the need for and the problems of establishing an international library center of survey research materials. It evaluates the potential utilization of such a center, the availability of research material and the adequacy of the available survey data. Recommendations and conclusions are also included.]

[ What differentiates a college for adults from an extension school and a "college-age" undergraduate school, with particular emphasis placed upon differences in students and teaching personnel.]

[This report contains a proposal for research on community controversies affecting educational freedom. Educational controversies in the New York metropolitan district were investigated, secondary materials examined and informants consulted about episodes in other parts of the country; hypotheses deserving of a high priority of study were worked out.]

[This paper examines five interpretations of the causes of the Civil War in order to determine whether they are in fact different interpretations and if so, what the differences are and how they can be resolved objectively.]

[ In Baltimore, Peoria, Hartford and San Francisco, 2853 phone interviews and 428 interviews in homes were completed among listeners and nonlisteners to "Monitor," a weekend radio service of NBC. "Monitor" was an experiment in programming designed with the growth of television in mind. Questionnaire included.]

[This exploratory study of a popular music "fad" focuses on the character and growth of the popularity of "Rhythm and Blues and some of the underlying factors involved. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[This is a study of 231 evacuee families and 183 host families involved in the Farmington-Unionville, Connecticut, 1955 flood disaster, focusing on crisis behavior and the relations between the two families during the time that the evacuee families were sheltered by the hosts. Questionnaires included.]

[This report is concerned with factors affecting the general level of demand for applied social research. The attitudes, beliefs and conditions which shape and either foster or impede the demand for social research are discussed using the American Telephone and Telegraph Company as an example.]

[This paper examines the sources of information other than research, utilized in determining the facts relevant to decision-making. The "competitive position" of research in relation to these alternatives is also investigated.]

[This examines the various problem-spotting and problem-defining functions of social research in the telephone company.]

[Using A.T.&T. as a case study this paper examines in detail the thesis that before a problem can be solved by a policy maker, it must first be recognized and given some specific formulation or definition.]

[Prepared as a working document for Common Council for American Unity to aid in utilization of their back files for a report on experiences in immigration, nationalization, deportation and related experiences, this report is a presentation of statistical tables resulting from encoding of materials.]

[The purpose of the project is to develop a study design, focusing on role of unemployment insurance in aiding adjustment to temporarily adjusted income. Experimenting with various questionnaires, 267 total interviews were conducted during five series of interviews. Includes final questionnaire.]

[Based on 25 returned questionnaires, this report is a summary of the evaluations made by migrant ministers of conditions confronting black migrant agricultural workers which have a bearing on their educational problems.]

[This is an exploratory study of information-exchanging behavior of the biochemists, chemists and zoologists on the faculty of a single academic institution to define problems, categories and procedure. Questionnaire included.]

[This was a study conducted for Ford Motor Co. when it was considering putting a new car on the market, on Social Stereotypes of Automobile Makes. Bernard Levenson the social imagery of automobile makes. 800 respondents in Peoria, Illinois, and San Bernardino, California, took part.]

[An "investigation of the extent to which the car-buyer's personal associates influence his choice of automobile. . . in respect to price class, corporate line and newness of car."]

[1325 single-car owners were studied for patterns of automobile replacement, the prevalence of the short replacement pattern, variety of replacement cycles, social factors involved.]

[This report examines factors associated with the seasonal timing element in the new-car-buying decision.]

[Two-car families were studied for the type of car that they buy, "paying particular heed to model-age, price-class, and brand and line loyalty."]

[Assuming that "consumer goods are prestigeful to the extent that ownership and use of them enhances the prestige of their owners and users," this secondary analysis of data attempts to specify the criteria of general prestige.]

[385 owners of each of eight automobile makes were interviewed to determine factors which make social and product quality images of automobiles stable.]

[The implications of the existence of groups of consumers with differentiated values for the potency and durability of various product quality images in the automobile market are examined.]

[Ford, Plymouth and Chevrolet were rated by respondents before and after Plymouth models were produced. The effects of fins on owner stereotypes of each make were examined. The appearance of fins weakened the image of Ford, strengthened that of Plymouth.]

[Respondents were interviewed before and after Chrysler put out its "forward looking" finned models. This is an attempt to analyze who composed the Chrysler market, and what happened to the old conservative one, particularly in view of the sudden fall in sales after the initial rise in the market.]

[3025 panel interviews were conducted in Knoxville, Tennessee, Rochester, New York, and Pasadena, California, before and after the appearance of the Edsel, to determine the receptivity of recent car buyers to the new model.]

[This report examines the extent to which car buyers have stereotypic images for each of four attributes-speed, appearance, workmanship and trade-in value.]

[Characteristics of the owner who buys his car early in the model year make him important to the automobile industry. What does the early buyer value in his car and in himself?]

[This discusses under what conditions social imagery is related to brand loyalty and how such images contribute to size of sales. Based on same interviews as BB-0555-12.]

[This report develops further the analysis of BB-0555-1 with particular emphasis on the finding that " a social image of the brand that is incompatible with the owner's background characteristics is related to an increased disposition to switch brands."]

[This paper is concerned with the popular occupational image of automobile makes and the factors contributing to producing a favorable image. Also examined is how this occupational image affects the buying intentions of individuals.]

[This is a survey of "the extent and distribution of YMCA student associations; their structure, policy and activities, and the characteristics of their leaders and members." The sample consisted of 2186 member and leader respondents. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[Report of findings for study described in BB-0573-1. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[The role of dividend rates as a savings motivator is examined, focusing on depositors' knowledge of, and attitudes toward, dividends. 819 depositors interviewed.]

[This is an attempt to define personal characteristics of savers at two branches of the First Federal, and motivations for their savings attitudes toward a particular branch of a savings bank.]

[Description of responses of 2000 alumnae to open-ended questions on how well Barnard trained alumnae "for life"; would alumnae choose to go to college at Barnard today; what Barnard's primary goals should be for the next 25 years.]

[This is an overview of American colleges in the mid '50s and a classification of member colleges according to an applicant index, index of attainment and index of student involvement. Bibliography included. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[Discusses attributes of greeting card consumers, the cards bought and the stores where purchases are made. The study is based on 32 interviews. Complete transcripts included. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[Use is made of past studies to describe the subject matter, methodology and notable findings of rural sociology in the last 50 years.]

[A report of the Documentation Project on social science methodology. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[A report on the Documentation Project on social science methodology. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[Based on data supplied by the American Institute of Public Opinion, this memorandum supplements an early report by the Institute and provides more clues to the problem of the nature of public resistance to the Salk vaccine.]

[This study specifies the relationship between the successive stages of marketing and ways in which the consumer influences this process. Interviews with 20 manufacturers, 8 retailers and a selected sample of the general public were conducted. General public questionnaires included.]

[Using data supplied by the Educational Testing Service, this report examines the flow of young people through the educational channel from secondary school to college. Shifting emphasis from the family's role in the recruitment process, this report examines the role of other institutions and organizations in college recruitment. It places most emphasis on the structural features of American secondary education]

[This report deals with the relationship between literacy and urban industrialism and discusses the impact of a country's educational status on its industrial growth. The major focus is on the role of literacy and education in the dynamics of economic modernization of the world's underdeveloped countries. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[This is a detailed statement of the purposes and procedures of a comprehensive survey of the engineering profession, its past, present and future role in American society. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[This study of consumer behavior emphasizes the decision-making processes. Interviews were conducted with 12 purchasers, 11 non-purchasers and 6 cancellers. Proposals for the final, extensive research project and questionnaire are included.]

[This project explored the feasibility of developing handbooks on particular social problems for the use of social practitioners. The report describes the types of handbook desired and outlines procedures for preparing it. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[This is devoted primarily to suggesting studies that might be beneficial in answering questions concerning the unrealized potentialities of television. More conventional research for describing the existing facts of television is also discussed. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[824 members of the 1958 Experiment in International Living Program were studied to determine improved criteria for selection of participants and to evaluate the overseas experience enjoyed by them. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[Topics are proposed for research in the field of the sociology of art. "It is written by laymen in art for laymen in sociology," and suggests problems for study as well as research designs to provide data which museums can use to strengthen their constituency and add to the existing body of knowledge in the field of the sociology of art. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[This volume contains a series of 9 research memoranda dealing with various aspects of the study. A report of the first year's work on the project and a Master's Essay by Thomasina Jo Smith, " Social Class and the Student Nurse," are also included. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[This was a study to determine the potential bases for support for the National Foundation's expanded program, at a time when the March of Dimes, among other major groups, had abandoned federated fund-raising in favor of individual drives. Based on 2970 interviews.]

[Determinants and correlates of participation in health and welfare organizations, differences between volunteer and recruited workers, attitudes of March of Dimes workers toward the National Foundation are examined. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[Questionnaire, study design, indices and tables for reports BB-0632-1-3. NOT AVAILABLE]

[This report investigates the role of the Adult Educational Association in the field of adult education. It analyzes the history and membership of the AEA, discusses the problems of the AEA, and adult education as a social movement and as a profession, and presents the purposes and goals of a national organization in adult education.]

[1294 persons listed in "Who's Who in America 1958-59, answered questionnaires on war prevention measures and forms of world government. Responses were related to personal characteristics of respondents: education, age, etc. Questionnaire included.]

[This examines the growing alliance of pastors and psychiatrists against emotional misery, through a case study of the religio-psychiatric clinic of New York City and an analysis of the literature. Report is more comprehensive than resultant book, Psychiatry and Religion.]

[This report concerns itself with the symbolism mediating the interaction between ministers and psychiatrists. It outlines a general social theory of symbolism illustrated in terms of their linguistic symbols.]

[The report sets forth a theory explicating the concept of faith and provides a set of general descriptive categories which may be used in the study of any situation of faith and suggests hypotheses about the ways in which these categories are related to each other. BB-0640-3a, a precis of "Towards a Social Psychology of Faith," 18 pp., is bound with BB-0640-4.]

[This report describes the author's trip to Lourdes, first as a participant and then as an observer. Lourdes is a place of pilgrimage where miraculous cures of physical ailments supposedly occur.]

[This is a bibliography which confines itself to that area where psychiatry and religion are bridged. It focuses primarily on professional publications. BIBLIOGRAPHY NOT AVAILABLE]

[This is a listing of books relating to mental healing.]

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[These papers of the religion and psychiatry project (BB-0640) are embodied in the book published in 1964, Psychiatry and Religion, New York: The Free Press.]

[This details the experience of parents of handicapped children in getting information on the child's disability from professional personnel, parents of other handicapped children, and the literature. 147 respondents.]

[458 National Foundation volunteers were interviewed in order to determine the causes for the response of volunteers to the National Foundation's new goal of eliminating birth defects and arthritis as compared to the overwhelming response to the Polio Drive. This report investigates the characteristics of the present volunteers and attitudes of these volunteers toward the Foundation and the new program.]

[This is a synthesis of conceptual approaches used by researchers in this field and a survey of the topics currently and potentially included. A bibliography of the materials reviewed is included.]

[This presents the results of a questionnaire, filled out by 959 General Studies students, asking for personal background and opinions on increased dormitory space, increased financial aid and a "third semester" during the summer. Questionnaire included. NOT AVAILABLE]

[This discusses factors involved in the respondents' images of certain diseases at a time when arthritis and birth defects were included in the National Foundation's campaign.]

[The report describes how a sample of American clergymen views the National Council of Churches of Christ and discusses some of the primary determinants of these views. Selected sample of 4031 respondents to questionnaire, 88 personal interviews. Interview guide and questionnaire included. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[This is an attempt to specify what aspects of the formal and informal structure of the Encampment for Citizenship make its program so effective in opinion changing. Questionnaire included.]

[An integrated bar is an official organization of all the lawyers in a state. "Organization" summarizes the principal organizational forms and activities of the state bars. "Debate" summarizes the arguments for and against integration as they appear in the professional literature. "Bibliography" is a collection of articles, addresses, committee reports and other publications about the integrated bar. The first two papers have been published. See 1962 article, "The Organization of the Integrated Bar," by Glaser.]

[Using data obtained from 281 machines across the country, this report discusses the effect of the model Twenty-700 vending machine and its advertising technique on cigarette sales volume. The influence of social class and location of vending machines is also examined. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[2325 respondents answered questionnaires in this study which attempted to measure general response to the Forum, intensity of use of the Forum, and the relationship between attitudes to the University and attitudes to the Forum. Questionnaire included.]

[An analysis of returns of three test mailings soliciting subscribers to a new periodical is presented. NOT AVAILABLE]

[Responses of 179 middle management executives were coded for a statistical description of their past, current and expected occupational status and their attitudes toward these positions. Questionnaire included.]

[The purpose of this report is to provide assistance in understanding and dealing with officials of other countries who behave idiosyncratically as a result of physical or mental illness. Included are several case studies of officials such as Hitler, Wilson, Lincoln and Grant who suffered illnesses which affected their duties.]

[Published in Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 64(October, 1964), pp. 27-43. Presents a cross-cultural test of the hypothesis of an inverse relation between ritual drinking and heavy drinking in secular situations. The study uses data from 48 societies listed in the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University which use alcoholic beverages in religious or secular situations.]

[Analysis of nursing education and utilization of nurses in 16 countries of Europe, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, relating nursing policies to certain attributes of the national social systems. The first half of this report is published. See pp. 1-59 in The Nursing Profession, Fred Davis, ed., New York: Wiley, 1966.]

[This report analyzes principal methods for paying doctors in several foreign countries. The administrative mechanism in distributing money to them as well as the dynamics of each system are discussed. In addition, how fees or salaries of the medical profession are set and the effects of payment systems upon medical care and the medical profession are analyzed. This report is organized by country and is limited to data before 1963. The book, Paying the Doctor, is analytical and includes data through the late 1960s.]

[Interviews about Voice of America and other Arabic broadcasts with 16 respondents were conducted for an evaluation of the U. S. Information Agency programming. Extensive biographies of respondents are included.]

[16 interviews with Indians were conducted to evaluate U.S.A. English language literature and then compare it with comparable publications from the U.S.S.R.]

[This report contains discussions of papers dealing with small group research, survey research, and institutional research. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[This report on recipients and candidates for an Engineering Faculty Development Fellowship or Loan is concerned with the family, financial and academic differences between recipients and non-recipients, the effects of the Faculty Development Program on recipients and candidates and the economics of the program. 226 recipients and candidates answered questionnaires and were interviewed.]

[This is an outline for an evaluative research program based on a review of the literature, and correspondence and interviews with professionals and officials in organizations with overseas programs. Annotated bibliography included.]

[An initial attempt to assess probable manpower shortages in middle-level occupations (professional and technical and skilled occupations) from 1965 to 1975 in countries currently cooperating with the Peace Corps program.]

[An investigation of the relation of education, defined as school enrollments in the early 1950s, to economic growth, as indicated by changes in both gross and per capita national product in the decade 1950-1960.]

[This is a review of the economic position and consumer power of American Blacks outside the South. Bibliography is included.]

[This is a statistical description of 9028 respondents to a mailed questionnaire which includes occupational, educational and family information. Questionnaire included.]

[An action program to prevent exploitation of low-income consumers who purchase major durables, as well as an evaluative research design is set forth.]

[Sociological analysis of field observations on the racial crisis in Birmingham, Alabama. NOT AVAILABLE]

[This report based on returned questionnaires from 812 directors of admissions and 476 assistant directors discusses how an increase in college applications affected the development of the occupation of admissions officer. The relationship of the officer to his college, the admissions operation itself, and the outside activities involving a majority of officers are also discussed. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[586 letters sent to an agency which launched a public relations campaign on behalf of the UN were coded for characteristics of the writers, images of the UN, and correspondence of letter content to the John Birch Society line. Bibliography is included.]

[This report is a background paper dealing with post-doctoral work in American universities. The various types of post-doctoral people in residence on university campuses are identified and the situation as of 1960 is discussed.]

[This report examines the value of privacy and its functions in everyday life. Sociological problems related to privacy are also discussed as well as the way these problems are dealt with in existing social science research and writings.]

[This report analyzes the results of 387 completed questionnaires and 42 phone interviews with students not returning to the School of General Studies for the 1963 spring term. Their reasons for not returning, alternative activities pursued, and plans for the future are discussed. Questionnaire included.]

[This is a description of the kinds of complaints made about TV commercials, and who voices the complaints, based on a national sample of 2498 interviews.]

[This studies the level of knowledge of the practicing physician with respect to selected new developments in medicine, as related to: the professional milieu in which he works, his integration into that milieu; his contacts with colleagues; his reading habits, meeting attendance, and participation in continuing medical education; and his training and practice. Some 400 general practitioners and interns in private practice in communities of varying types were interviewed.]

[In order to ascertain the physician audience of the New York Academy of Medicine's Clinical Science Seminars, telephone interviews and mail questionnaires were analyzed. The random sample of 295 physicians provided information such as regularity and location of viewing, as well as age and place of training.]

[This report investigates the effectiveness of the New York Academy of Medicine's open-circuit TV broadcasts. It includes analysis of the audience, as well as doctors' evaluations and criticisms of the program. A separate volume of appendices is also included.]

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[To illustrate the complex kinds of influences a college exercises upon its students, this report deals specifically with the influence of the college teacher on students. It is based on data obtained through 179 completed questionnaires and 24 interviews at Columbia College.]

[389 returned questionnaires were analyzed to determine student attitudes on interreligious dating and marriage, in an attempt to characterize types of students likely to marry outside their religion.]

[Tracing the formation of the questionnaire used in Kadushin's Why People Go to Psychiatrists. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[This is a study of some of the complex interactions that link school systems and the families they serve. The primary focus is on relations among pupils, parents, teachers, and school systems. The extent and consequences of both actual and perceived agreements among them on a number of educational matters in several different community settings are explored. Questionnaires included.]

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[Besides a brief description of all 1144 four-year accredited institutions of higher education with undergraduates, the relationship to one another of a limited number of institutional characteristics, and how they vary from one type of institution to another are discussed.]

[This project examines the importance and interplay of formal and informal channels of communication in the flow of scientific information. 161 scientists in the field of polymer chemistry working in government, university, and industrial establishments were interviewed.]

[This is an analysis of data collected in a survey of services which deal with subjects of the social sciences and related disciplines. Covers such topics as purposes of the different services, ways in which information is provided, their operational experiences. Questionnaire included.]

[1718 citizens and 110 community leaders were interviewed in order to examine the processes of communication and decision involved in family and community reactions to civil defense and fallout shelter programs. Social and psychological processes affecting public attitudes were also analyzed.]

[Based on 607 respondents from Juilliard School of Music and Manhattan School of Music, this report investigates the process by which music students acquire the values, attitudes and self-concept of professional musicians.]

[A comparison was made of the two kinds of areas to try to determine why one becomes economically depressed and to highlight those factors about which something might be done. Sample of 787 counties.]

[This is a description of a sample of those in the 1960 census who did not complete college as compared to those who completed four or more years. A projection of the college populations of 1970 and 1975 is also made.]

[The Homelessness Project is a study of the etiology, patterns and consequences of homelessness based on comparison of the lifetime affiliative histories of four samples, two of homeless men and two of men living in settled neighborhoods, as well as annual censuses of the Bowery. Published, Univ. of Toronto Press, 1970.]

[This report examines the use of relatively inexpensive technological innovations in solving major social problems. The success of these techniques and society's reaction to them is of major concern. The specific techniques discussed are methadone for heroin addiction, antabuse for alcoholism, educational television, gun control, and the highway safety breathtest. Published by Russell Sage Foundation, 1973. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[This is a study of "role conflicts engendered by the new social position in which the widow finds hereself." It is based on 100 interviews with recently widowed women. NOT AVAILABLE]

[Half of the senior recruits in the field had been interested in it as freshmen; half had been drawn to it during college. This report discusses the differences in the two groups in terms of background, occupational wants and goals, and in the geographical and educational locations from which they moved into the profession.]

[A further analysis of materials collected on utilization of broadcast television programs in the New York State Regents in 1962 examines the demographic characteristics related to use or non-use and extent of use, and looks at the effects of characteristics of schools on utilization and attitudes among teachers.]

[Three interrelated surveys were conducted to determine the characteristics of students attending primarily black colleges: characteristics of high school students entering colleges, recent and projected trends in enrollments and related admission policies of primarily black colleges. Projections were also developed concerning the numbers of southern black youth expected to be high school graduates by 1975. Questionnaires included. Published by Praeger, 1968.]

[This is an attempt to determine the potential for church-related social services in South America based on interview and questionnaire data about existing needs in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru.]

[This report describes the structure and operation of the disciplinary machinery, and discusses who in the bar gets "caught" and for what, the principal factors determining the severity of sanction imposed by the court in adjudicated cases and the role formal disciplinary machinery plays in maintaining adherence to professional norms.]

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[This report describes the aid director's work, his sources of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, how financial aid is organized at the college level and the relationship between the organization of aid administration and the effectiveness of the aid program. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[Based on questionnaires returned by directors of undergraduate financial aid at 849 universities and colleges, as well as data obtained from American Universities and Colleges, this report analyzes financial aid policies of four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. It also describes how a limited number of institutional characteristics relate to one another and how they vary from one type of institution to another. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[Vista's purpose is to provide social agencies with full-time Volunteers to help combat poverty in local neighborhoods. This report discusses their training, job performance and experiences, and makes recommendations for changes so that their contribution would be more valuable. Methodological appendix, questionnaire, and interview schedules are included. ]

[This specifies the interlocking student and institutional variables which influence college attendance. Newer variables are distinguished from the more traditional ones and rough assessments of the relative significance of each type for the near future are made.]

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[These (B-1046-2,3,4) cover the progress of the project and the major findings for the longitudinal follow-up of the 1965-1966 Current Population Survey of high school seniors. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[The basic concern of this report was with identifying the sources of error in interview responses. A review of the literature was carried out and a classified and annotated bibliography resulted. The most relevant of the literature was then analyzed to derive some insights into the nature and extent of the interviewing problem with low-income people.]

[This report investigates non-conventional uses of sociology: the application of sociology in the analysis of interaction between nations and the conditions for cooperation or avoidance of extreme conflict; and the logical nature of emergent properties of macroscopic systems and the case for focusing more efforts in future research on that level.]

[This report analyzes characteristics of colleges and the relationship of these characteristics to the number of applications to the Peace Corps from these colleges. The recruiting efforts of the Peace Corps are also analyzed.]

[This analysis of the structure and practice of social work discusses the formally established aims of social work and the means by which they can be achieved more effectively. The elucidation of the significance of the semi-professional attributes and their effects on social work practice are the main themes of this study. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[This report discusses what the attitudes of people were during the blackout of November 9, 1965. 103 people were interviewed to determine what they thought caused the blackout and what they expected to happen. Interview guide included.]

[During the transit strike, 114 drivers were interviewed about their cooperation with the Mayor's appeal for drivers to bring in extra people. Cooperation is related to situational and personality variables. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[This project developed an inventory of key variables which would describe and differentiate Community Action Agencies and which would be relevant to the effectiveness of CAA programs. This report consists of a comprehensive bibliography of organizational literature and interview guides for various people concerned with the CAA programs. A critical review of these materials is also included.]

[This is a study of more than 100 American college students who volunteered for a year of service in Israel in a program entitled Sherut La'am. Questionnaires were administered to participants before and after a 2-week orientation session prior to departure and before return from the year in Israel. The volunteers' reactions to the administration and services of the program as well as their jobs in Israel are analyzed.]

[This is a before and after study of the attitudes of 168 teenagers who attended a six-week summer camp either in Fieldston, New York, or in Barbourville, Kentucky. The independent variables of sex, economic background and race were related to friendship formation and attitude change toward civil rights and anti-poverty action. Comparisons were made between the conservative and liberal trainees. Questionnaire included.]

[This study analyzes the inequalities which exist between comparably educated blacks and whites in Baltimore, in obtaining jobs, and in wages paid. STUDY NOT AVAILABLE]

[This report describes in detail a computerized system for assigning students to schools to maximize racial integration while minimizing travel time and cost. Using the computer system, MINTRAN-MPS/ 360, a table of assignment of students to school buildings is drawn up which places each student in a school with a minimum of total daily student transportation time subject to certain constraints.]

[600 student interns on summer jobs in 13 New York City agencies answered questionnaires on their experiences. Supervisors' reports and field observations were also used. The analysis compares experiences in different agencies and reported effects on students and the agencies.]

[Interviewing 180 selected community leaders, this report discusses the problems of Danbury, Conn., such as poverty and race relations, planning and growth, leadership, government, and education. The existing facilities for meeting these problems are described. The image of Danbury State College in the eyes of the community is also discussed and recommendations are made for coping with these problems.]

[This is the report of a study of the effect of respondent and interviewer background, interview rapport, and conformity to middle-class norms on validity of response to factual questions in a sample of black mothers receiving public assistance in New York.]

[The responses to questionnaire of 2200 teachers in 25 elementary, 11 junior high, and 10 senior high schools in Washington, D.C., were analyzed. The attitudes and opinions of individual teachers were related to their race, sex, license status and track in which they teach. On a set of major items average scores were computed for schools as a whole and the relationships among these school characteristics were analyzed. Also, black and white teachers were compared within similar school contexts. Questionnaire included.]

[This is an attempt to isolate dimensions for theoretical work on higher education such as recruitment, socialization, student subcultures, faculty subcultures, student-faculty relationships, involvement, interchange with the environment, and global characteristics by a reconceptualization of the literature, rather than presenting new data. A survey of institutional goals among administrators in higher education was also carried out.]

[This report describes five Kings County grand jury panels with respect to race, education, occupation, place of birth, and a number of other characteristics. A comparison of the panels with a random selection of potential grand jurors from the eligible population in Kings County is also made.]

[Content analysis of official documents and institutional data on universities were combined in this study to assess certain aspects of the new U.S.O. E. training program.]

[Financial aid directors at 1671 colleges in 50 states, and 1388 banks and credit unions supplying funds for student loans, were surveyed on their opinions and practices concerning the Guaranteed Loan Program-a program actively used in a few states, and very little used in others.]

[Reports data from survey of the universe of institutions of higher education concerning the National Defense Student Loan Program, and from 278 nursing schools and 129 health professions schools concerning the Health Professions Student Loan Program. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[This report analyzes factors affecting the flow of social science information to the mass media and suggests ways of facilitating the flow. It is based on data obtained from interviews with senior social scientists and staff members of the news bureaus of six universities and a few members of the working press.]

[Analyzing police blotters of people arrested in racial disorders in U.S. in 1967, this report develops a profile of riot participation in terms of characteristics such as age, sex, race, birthplace, previous arrest record, formal offense and employment status, and attempts to test the adequacy of the "riffraff" theory of riot participation. Published in Supplemental Studies for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968.]

[This report is an extension of B-1084-1, using data on persons arrested in riots from 1964 through 1967. The characteristics of riot participants are analyzed in relation to the year, severity of the disorders, past earnings, previous arrest record, and the type of booking offense. The characteristics of white and female riot arrestees are also discussed.]

[Contents: 1. Power, Influence, and Social Circles. Kadushin, 15 pp.; 2. Monism as a Model of Modern Society. G. Fischer, 8 pp.; 3. A Model of Opinion-Making and Decision-Making Processes on Major Social Issues. Allen Barton, 10 pp.; 4. Social Circles and National Power. C. Kadushin, 19 pp.; 5. Notes on Plans for Study in Yugoslavia on Opinion-Makers in the Contemporary World-Joint Proposal. BASR, Columbia, Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade, 11 pp.; 6. Opinion-Makers in the Contemporary World-Yugoslav Questionnaire. Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade, 25 pp.; 7. Opinion-Makers in the Modern World. B. Denitch, 6 pp.; 8. Some Practical Problems of Compiling the Universe and its Characteristics. Dragomir Pantic, 15 pp.; 9. Some Characteristics of Public Opinion in Yugoslav Society. M. Popovic, 5 pp.; 10. A Preliminary Report on the Social Structure of Yugoslav Opinion Leaders. Charles Kadushin, 24 pp.; 11.Yugoslav Social Structure and the Formation of Public Opinion. Radomir Lukic, 32 pp.; 12.The Role of Intellectuals in the Definition of Social Problems: A Comparative Study. Charles Kadushin, 39 pp.; 13. A Study of National Opinion-Makers in Italy: A Draft Proposal. Paolo Fameti, 15 pp. NOT AVAILABLE]

[; 1 Social Background and Recruitment of Yugoslav Political Elites, 1914-1948. Lenard Cohen, 45 pp.; 2 A Note on Field Problems of Interviewing Elite Respondents in Yugoslavia. Bogdan Denitch, 7 pp.; 3 Social Structure of Yugoslav Opinion-Makers, Part I: Informal Leadership. Charles Kadushin and Peter Abrams, 39 pp.; 4 Social Structure and Mobility of Public Opinion-Makers. Vesna Popovic, 25 pp.; 5 Political History and Activity of Opinion-Makers in Yugoslavia. Vesna Popovic, 13 pp.; 6 Communications Intake and Output Among Opinion-Makers in a Socialist Society: The Yugoslav Opinion-Makers. A. H. Barton, Ljiljana Bacevic and Dragomir Pantic, 57 pp.; 7 On the Problem of Elites and Opinion-Making in the Czechoslovakian Socialist Republic. Milos Kalab, 13 pp.; 8 Czechoslovak Opinion-Makers in the Modern Period, Vaclav Lamser, 51 pp. NOT AVAILABLE]

[1. Political Cultures and Social Mobility in Yugoslavia. Bogdan Denitch, 34 pp.; 2 Social Mobility of the Opinion-Makers in Yugoslavia. Radomir Lukic, 7 pp.; 3 Mobility and Recruitment of Yugoslav Leadership: The Role of the League of Communists. Bogdan Denitch, 22 pp.; 4 The Relationship Between Public 0pinion-Makers and Public Opinion. Mladen Zvonarovic, 17 pp.; 5 Several Hypotheses in Connection with the Social Origin and Functional Characteristics of the Yugoslav Political Elite. Rudi Supek, 22 pp.; 6 Power Structure of Statist and Self-Governing Socialism. Rudi Supek, 25 pp.; 7 Democratization and its Effect on Elite Group Relations. Rudi Supek, 38 pp.; 8 Some Values, Attitudes and Opinions of Opinion-Makers. Dragomir Pantic, 11 pp.; 9 Cultural Reproduction and Social Reproduction. Pierre Bourdieu, 44 pp.; 10 Preliminary Bibliography of English-Language Studies of National Leaders and Opinion-Makers. Allen Barton, 15 pp. NOT AVAILABLE]

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[The purpose of this study was to determine the content and dimensions of Blacks' attitudes toward Jews, as Blacks from various economic classes representing four distinctive life styles were interviewed. NOT AVAILABLE]

[An examination of readers in the United States and Africa of a specialized publication on Africa, based on mail questionnaires from 721 readers.]

[This is based on interviews with 125 black and 106 white businessmen in Central Harlem and 53 in Bay Ridge, a white middle-class area. It compares the black and white merchants generally with the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, merchants, to learn whether race or other factors account for differences in their experiences. Published: Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1973.]

[Published as ch. 5 of P. F. Lazarsfeld and J. G. Reitz, An Introduction to Applied Sociology, New York: Elsevier, 1975. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[Published as ch. 6 of An Introduction to Applied Sociology.]

[This project studies the utilization of social research.]

[This report describes and evaluates the one-week experiment of the Community Patrol Corps (made up of male residents between the ages of 18-30) patrolling areas of Harlem. The participants and their experiences are presented as well as the response to the Corps from the community, press, police and city officials. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[Report on a survey of student opinion in the fall of 1968, a few months after the uprising of 1968. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[This report considers the several faces of poverty, discusses what should be considered in constructing measures of the "quality of life," introduces the methodological issues, spells out the main variables to be included in survey instruments, presents a basic sampling design and some variants, and considers the special problems of interviewing low-income groups.]

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[This is an extension of previous work (see B-1024). 331 middle-aged and elderly socially isolated women from 3 census tracts in Manhattan and 52 who were clients of a shelter for homeless women were interviewed. The personal and social consequences of human isolation were explored; whether the process is reversible or permanent, voluntary or forced; the role of organizations in the development and prevention of disaffiliation; and how it relates to other individual and community problems. Published as Women Alone. The Disaffiliation of Urban Females. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, D. C. Heath & Co., 1976. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[Under the Office of Education's RRP, proposals up to $ 10,000 are submitted to the office in the researcher's geographic area. The distribution of applicants, the processing of proposals and the consequences of being funded were examined. Data were collected by questionnaires to applicants and to those who reviewed proposals, factual materials abstracted from proposals, ratings of them and funding recommendations, and interviews with the Directors of Educational Research at the nine offices.]

[ The focus of this project was the quality of research on education, and the characteristics and experiences of researchers which were related to research quality. The quality of all papers read at the 1968 American Educational Research Association meeting and all education-related research articles published in 113 journals in 1967-68 was rated by a national panel of 40 eminent researchers. Additionally, the authors of the papers were surveyed and their undergraduate academic achievement, graduate training, career lines, research settings, and professional rewards were analyzed in relation to the quality of their research. A series of "models" was developed to explain variation in quality. Published as: Quality, Careers and Training in Education and Social Research. Bayside, N.Y.: General Hall, 1976.]

[ This is a report on the findings of a preliminary study to determine how much mass media coverage was being given to minority groups in the New York area and what the principal reactions to this coverage were on the part of the minority groups themselves. 53 influential Blacks were interviewed as were 2 panels of 20 Blacks each.]

[The Federal Educational Opportunity Grant Program provides grants to low-income students to attend college, 70% of whose families have annual incomes of less than $6,000. Data for the study were gathered from questionnaires answered by 9,789 students; information on 10,166 students supplied by aid administrators; 1,620 questionnaires from participating institutions; interviews with administrators and students at 20 institutions; and government reports. The report includes recommendations to strengthen the successful program.]

[This is a presentation of a case study of evaluation conducted within an operating program and the group discussion of the issues and solutions. REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[(A joint report with the Center for Policy Research.) This discusses the problem of students who study in developed countries, and then do not return to their homelands to work and apply their knowledge to the developing countries' benefit REPORT NOT AVAILABLE]

[This study examines how residents felt about a narcotic treatment facility one year after it opened despite some initial community opposition. 91 community residents were interviewed.]

[Some 10,000 students, 2,000 institutions of higher education, and 2,200 employers participating in the College Work Study Program during the academic year l970-1971 were studied. The characteristics of students and their employment settings are described and components of students' job satisfaction are analyzed. Aid officers' and employers' problems in administering the program are analyzed. An extensive bibliography is included.]

[This two-year study details the process and outcomes of extension agent work and computerized information retrieval in a major, three-state tryout of a new educational dissemination system supported by the U.S. Office of Education. Case studies cover the tactics and problems of field agents in conveying information and supporting innovation within school settings. Results of extension agent and retrieval practices at all levels of local educational structures are examined. Instruments and guidelines for evaluation and monitoring of E&R projects are included. (Available from ERIC Document Reproduction Service, PO Box 190, Arlington, Virginia, Nos. ED 065.739 and ED 065 740.)]

[This report presents abstracts of papers in order to bring to the attention of researchers the available evidence (and in some cases, theories and speculations) on the effects of respondent-interviewer interaction on research data.]

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[An intensive search for interview surveys of low-income populations turned up 194 recent samples. These were examined to assess the benefits and limitations of using racially and economically similar interviewers in surveys of the poor. Characteristics of interviewers, recruitment, training, supervision, and the study directors' assessment of interviewer performance were analyzed.]

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[This study focuses upon a group of metropolitan area men with extremely serious permanent job-related disabilities which occurred in the latter 1960s. Respondents were interviewed in the first quarter of 1972. Emphasis is placed upon the adequacy of Workmen's Compensation benefits, as well as a number of other sources of household funds in the years immediately following disability. Non-financial changes in life-circumstances and styles were also documented at length.]

[This examines the place that population occupies in undergraduate education both in the classroom and in extracurricular activities. It is based on information collected in 1972 from more than a dozen campuses across the country that differ markedly in the attention that population receives. The report covers population in the curriculum, alternative strategies for teaching population, the overlay of values and attitudes that affect instruction, extracurricular activities related to population, and gives conclusions and recommendations.]

[This is an experimental study of the problem of the 12- vs. 6-man jury and of unanimous vs. non-unanimous decisions, conducted with an actual population of jurors, in the courts, with the collaboration of members of the judiciary, the bar, and the social sciences. Ninety-two experimental juries have been run, 23 under each of the four combinations of jury size and unanimous/non-unanimous decision.]

[Data from censuses and surveys covering 1910-1970 were analyzed to determine the relationship among education, labor force participation and fertility of women in the United States.]

[Interviews with 393 rank and file members and 108 "active members" of a large city public employees union were analyzed to discover the effect of union involvement in political attitudes and behavior. A supplementary sample of 55 union officers and staff members were also interviewed concerning their own union careers.]

[The study, using 1960 and 1970 census data, covers social, economic, and housing conditions. Puerto Ricans living in New York State are contrasted with those living in other states.]

[Topics covered are how to organize insurance carriers and medical associations; how to organize negotiations between them; costs and how to contain them; work schedules of doctors; how to improve primary care, preventive medicine, and long term care; effects of different reimbursement and administrative arrangements on the recruitment and location of doctors; and how to write fee schedules. Chapters I through X have been published as Health Insurance Bargaining: Foreign Lessons for Americans, New York: Gardner Press, 1978. The.microfiche edition contains only Chapters XI through XV.]