Prepared for the American Sociological Society in 1956, this book considers the ways and means of more effective utilization of sociology in the treatment of mental illness. It calls for more effective practice and the advancement of basic research and theory in regards to mental illness.
JOHN A. CLAUSEN was Chief Laboratory of Socio-environmental Studies National Institute of Mental Health
This 1911 pamphlet is an outline to aid those enlisted in social work as a profession, a cursory review of local conditions that look at the new topics that have informed social work in the 20th century, such as industry, child labor, city administration, and community organization.
MARGARET F. BYINGTON was associate director of the charity organization department of the Russell Sage Foundation.
A volume of the West Side studies, field work conducted in the summer of 1912. A wider study of the Manhattan neighborhood under the Bureau of Social Research of New York School of Philanthropy with funds supplied by the Russell Sage Foundation.
RUTH S. TRUE, New York Survey Associates, Inc.
A special study of the Springfield Survey.
WALTER L. TREADWAY, assistant surgeon, U.S. Public Health Service.
In 1900, Alice Willard Solenberger was given charge of the Central District of the Chicago Bureau of Charities, a territory in the South Side of the city where a large number of applicants were homeless men. Recognizing the inadequate treatment of these men, Solenberger devised a new plan of treatment, adapted largely from the methods used in the treatment and investigation of families, calling for greater care, greater skill, and greater sympathy in dealing with applicants. This book presents the methods behind the new plan of treatment.
ALICE WILLARD SOLENBERGER, Central District of the Chicago Bureau of Charities
Racial discrimination continues to plague society. Recent incidents demonstrate that those entrusted to serve and protect—police officers—often perpetuate discriminatory behavior. Self-relevant processes like stereotype threat and cognitive depletion are possible mechanisms that affect split-second racial aggression. For example, police officers may be more likely to shoot uncooperative residents of African descent because of a situational threat: they perceive the resident to threaten their authority or safety.
How a situational threat affects behavior remains unclear.
Although college enrollment of students of color has been increasing over the past thirty years, graduation rates for African American and Latino students are still significantly lower than those of their peers. Furthermore, their representation in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields lags behind that of other groups.
Both socioeconomic disadvantage and biological vulnerability contribute to the sizable socioeconomic status (SES) gaps in children’s school readiness. Significant income-related achievement gaps in cognitive and socio-emotional skills are evident in early childhood before the school years, and remain stable or even increase as children progress through school. This suggests that the initial SES-based gaps are associated with early home environments rather than formal educational inequalities.
Psychologists Serena Chen and Dacher Keltner will complete six different experimental manipulations that will focus on the relationships between income inequality and several social and health outcomes. They will examine how increases in the individual’s awareness of income inequality, as well as laboratory-based, face-to-face experiences of simulated income inequality, shape the individual’s emotional, behavioral, and physiological responses.
In 1916, the Foundation's Department of Child-Helping organized round table sessions to assist trustees of institutions caring for dependent children in their administrative duties. This document outlines the agendas of the meetings, which also accompanied the publication of eight short monographs of study findings.
C. SPENCER RICHARDSON was associate director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.
