Social Policy and Sociology

Content: 
QUANTITATIVE STUDIES IN SOCIAL RELATIONS, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
List of Contributors, Pages ix-xi
Preface, Pages xiii-xiv
Acknowledgments, Page xv
Prologue, Pages 1-9, KARL F. SCHUESSLER
Policy Shibboleths and the Reality-Testing of Research: Are the Poor Always with Us When We Make Sociology?, Pages 15-24, PETER H. ROSSI
Ideological Filters and Bureaucratic Responses in Interpreting Research: Community Planning and Poverty, Pages 25-36, ROBERT R. ALFORD
Race Relations: Some Policy Implications, Proximate and Remote, of a Negative Finding, Pages 37-44, HOWARD SCHUMAN
Policy Change and Grassroots Inertia: The Case of Metropolitan Services, Pages 45-55, JOHN D. KASARDA
Formal Models as a Guide to Social Policy: Issues in Population Dynamics, Pages 57-65, SAMUEL H. PRESTON
Commentaries, Pages 67-96, JOHN E. BRANDL, C. FRANKLIN EDWARDS, ELTON F. JACKSON, MAURICE JACKSON, WILLIAM T. LIU, ROBERT McGINNIS, SHELDON STRYKER
Sociological Critics versus Institutional Elites in the Politics of Research Application: Examples from Medical Care, Pages 99-108, DAVID MECHANIC
The Intermingling of Governmental Policy, Social Structure, and Public Values: The Case of the Changing Family, Pages 109-122, JOAN ALDOUS
Reconceptualizing Social Problems in Light of Scholarly Advances: Problem Drinking and Alcoholism, Pages 123-134, ROBERT STRAUS
Policy Enthusiasms for Untested Theories and the Role of Quantitative Evidence: Labeling and Mental Illness, Pages 135-147, KURT W. BACK
Applying General Variables to Specific Problems: Aging and the Life Cycle, Pages 149-158, NICHOLAS BABCHUK
Commentaries, Pages 159-189, CHARLES E. BOWERMAN, JOSEPH ELDER, WALTER R. GOVE, AUGUST B. HOLLINCSHEAD, MARVIN B. SUSSMAN, GUY E. SWANSON, ROBERT N. WILSON
The Natural History of an Applied Theory: Differential Opportunity and “Mobilization for Youth”, Pages 193-210, JAMES F. SHORT Jr.
Inappropriate Theories and Inadequate Methods as Policy Plagues: Self-Reported Delinquency and the Law, Pages 211-222, ALBERT J. REISS Jr.
Problems of Research in Response to “National Emergencies”: Drugs and Addiction, Pages 223-232, LOIS B. DEFLEUR
On the Remarkable Absence of Nonacademic Implications in Academic Research: An Example from Ethnic Studies, Pages 233-241, JAMES A. DAVIS
Sociological Understanding versus Policy Design and Intervention: The Adolescent Crisis, Pages 243-249, DORIS R. ENTWISLE
Commentaries, Pages 251-282, WENDELL BELL, CHARLES E. BIDWELL, HERBERT L. COSTNER, TROY DUSTER, DAVID R. HEISE, LAURA NADER, ALBERT PEPITONE, HANAN C. SELVIN
Report on a Survey of Graduate Training, Pages 285-295, RICHARD J. HILL
Remarks on the Changing Relationship between Government Support and Graduate Training, Pages 297-305, HOWARD E. FREEMAN, EDGAR F. BORGATTA, NATHANIEL H. SIEGEL
Research Training from the Perspective of Government Funding, Pages 307-320, KENNETH G. LUTTERMAN
Putting Sociologists to Work, Pages 321-338, NELSON N. FOOTE
Epilogue, Pages 339-356, N.J. DEMERATH III
Appendix, Pages 357-360
Name Index, Pages 361-365