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How to Interpret Social Welfare

A Study Course in Public Relations
Authors
Helen Cody Baker
Mary Swain Routzahn
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Publication Date
141 pages

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This report, published in 1947, is a guide to public relations programs around health and welfare services. It is written for professional workers, administrators, and volunteers who must answer questions, speak to audiences, or write letters and bulletins about social welfare.

HELEN CODY BAKER was publicity director at the Council of Social Agencies of Chicago.

MARY SWAIN ROUTZAHN was director at the Department of Social Work Interpretation of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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How to Interpret Social Work

A Study Course
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Helen Cody Baker
Mary Swain Routzahn
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Publication Date
90 pages

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Published in 1937 to serve as a course plan, How to Interpret Social Work focuses on how to talk about social work in a range of public spheres, from informal and familiar approaches to more formalized and skilled techniques needed in addressing the general public.

HELEN CODY BAKER was publicity director at the Council of Social Agencies of Chicago.

MARY SWAIN ROUTZAHN was director at the Department of Social Work Interpretation of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Toward Social Reporting

Next Steps
Author
Otis Dudley Duncan
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6 in. × 9.5 in. 50 pages
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978-0-87154-487-2

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A volume of Social Science Frontiers, a series of publications reviewing new fields for social development, aimed at foundation executives, administrators of research grant programs, directors of research organizations, and others concerned with making contemporary social science more useful for the function of social reporting.

OTIS DUDLEY DUNCAN was professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin.

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Studying Your Community

Author
Roland L. Warren
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Publication Date
385 pages

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This book, published in 1955, is a successor to Joanna C. Colcord's Your Community: Its Provision for Health, Education, Safety, and Welfare, published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 1939. It is designed as a broadly conceived working manual of community study aimed at not just social workers, like its predecessor, but a more varied group of citizens. It details procedures for conducting the survey, both in its organizational and methodological aspects.

ROLAND L. WARREN was professor of sociology at Alfred University.

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Publicity Methods Reading List

Selected References on Publicity in Social Work and Kindred Fields
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Evart G. Routzahn
Mary Swain Routzahn
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Publication Date
50 pages

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Published in 1924, this book is a compiled reading list of reference works that relate to publicity methods in social work. Most do not directly reference social work publicity, but are useful in promoting in the social, religious, or educational fields in one way or another.

EVART G. ROUTZAHN was associate director of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.

MARY SWAIN ROUTZAHN was director of the Department of Social Work Interpretation at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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The Health Show Comes to Town

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Evart G. Routzahn
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32 pages

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The Health Show Comes to Town is a report of a public health education campaign led by Dr. W.W. Peter in U.S. cities.

EVART G. ROUTZAHN was associate director of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Traveling Publicity Campaigns

Educational Tours of Railroad Train and Motor Vehicles
Author
Mary Swain Routzahn
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Publication Date
195 pages

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This book, published in 1920, examines a then-recent phenomenon of combining educational material and presentations with transportation facilities: the putting of exhibits, demonstrations, films, and other campaigning equipment on railroad trains, trolley cars, and motor trucks so that they may tour a large area of land. These vehicles were used to teach health, sanitation, and safety. Presented here is a review of these practices, with commentary by the author, aiming to stimulate the creation of new forms of illustrative material.

MARY SWAIN ROUTZAHN was director at the Department of Social Work Interpretation of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Elements of a Social Publicity Program

Author
E. G. Routzahn
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Publication Date
17 pages

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Paper read before the division on organization of social forces at the New Orleans meeting of the National Conference of Social Work, April, 1920

E.G. ROUTZAHN was associate director of the department of surveys and exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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The Family Court system is a major influence in the lives of poor families. Research in this setting reveals important linkages between social inequality, cultural contact between native-born and immigrant populations, and family well-being. On the one hand, Family Court involvement can open considerable resources to families in crisis; on the other hand, manifestations of social inequalities in family life, such as homelessness or substance abuse, are often reasons why Family Court involvement is compelled in the first place.

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Surveying Subjective Phenomena, Volume 1

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Charles Turner
Elizabeth Martin
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512 pages
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978-0-87154-882-5
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In January 1980 a panel of distinguished social scientists and statisticians assembled at the National Academy of Sciences to begin a thorough review of the uses, reliability, and validity of surveys purporting to measure such subjective phenomena as attitudes, opinions, beliefs, and preferences. This review was prompted not only by the widespread use of survey results in both academic and non-academic settings, but also by a proliferation of apparent discrepancies in allegedly equivalent measurements and by growing public concern over the value of such measurements.

This two-volume report of the panel’s findings is certain to become one of the standard works in the field of survey measurement. Volume I summarizes the state of the art of surveying subjective phenomena, evaluates contemporary measurement programs, examines the uses and abuses of such surveys, and candidly assesses the problems affecting them. The panel also offers strategies for improving the quality and usefulness of subjective survey data. In volume II, individual panel members and other experts explore in greater depth particular theoretical and empirical topics relevant to the panel’s conclusions.

For social scientists and policymakers who conduct, analyze, and rely on surveys of the national state of mind, this comprehensive and current review will be an invaluable resource.

CHARLES F. TURNER is professor of Applied Social Research at the City University of New York.

ELIZABETH MARTIN is research associate at the National Research Council.

CONTRIBUTORS: Robert P. Abelson, Barbara A. Bailar, Marian Ballard, Theresa J. Demaio, Otis Dudley Duncan, Baruch Fischhoff, Lester R. Frankel, William H. Kruskal, Michael B. Mackuen, Catherine Marsch, Elizabeth Martin, Sara B. Nerlove, Howard Schuman, Tom W. Smith, Charles F. Turner

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