Social Policy and Sociology

List of Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Part I Assessment of Policy Research

Section A Social Inequities and Their Effects

Policy Shibboleths and the Reality-Testing of Research: Are the Poor Always with Us When We Make Sociology?

Ideological Filters and Bureaucratic Responses in Interpreting Research: Community Planning and Poverty

Race Relations: Some Policy Implications, Proximate and Remote, of a Negative Finding

Policy Change and Grassroots Inertia: The Case of Metropolitan Services

Formal Models as a Guide to Social Policy: Issues in Population Dynamics

Commentaries

John E. Brandl

G. Franklin Edwards

Elton F. Jackson

Maurice Jackson

William T. Liu

Robert McCinnis

Sheldon Stryker

Section B Individual Stress in the Family Cycle

Sociological Critics versus Institutional Elites in the Politics of Research Application: Examples from Medical Care

The Intermingling of Governmental Policy, Social Structure, and Public Values: The Case of the Changing Family

Reconceptualizing Social Problems in Light of Scholarly Advances: Problem Drinking and Alcoholism

Policy Enthusiasms for Untested Theories and the Role of Quantitative Evidence: Labeling and Mental Illness

Applying General Variables to Specific Problems: Aging and the Life Cycle

Commentaries

Charles E. Bowerman

Joseph Elder

Walter R. Cove

August B. Hollingshead

Marvin B. Sussman

Guy E. Swanson

Robert N. Wilson

Section C American Youth and Their Problems

The Natural History of an Applied Theory: Differential Opportunity and "Mobilization for Youth"

Inappropriate Theories and Inadequate Methods as Policy Plagues: Self-Reported Delinquency and the Law

Problems of Research in Response to "National Emergencies": Drugs and Addiction

On the Remarkable Absence of Nonacademic Implications in Academic Research: An Example from Ethnic Studies

Sociological Understanding versus Policy Design and Intervention: The Adolescent Crisis

Commentaries

Wendell Bell

Charles E. Bidwell

Herbert L. Costner

Troy Duster

David R. Heise

Laura Nader

Albert Pepitone

Hanan C. Selvin

Part II Graduate Training and Federal Funding

Report on a Survey of Graduate Training

Remarks on the Changing Relationship between Government Support and Graduate Training

Research Training from the Perspective of Government Funding

Putting Sociologists to Work

Epilogue

Appendix

Carmel Conference Participants

Carmel Conference Program

Name Index