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Lawyers, Law Schools, and the Public Service

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Esther Lucile Brown
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259 pages

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Published in 1948, this book is concerned with how the law school may be more effective in educating the many law-trained students who will eventually go on to work as legislators, judges, and policy-making members in government, or who, as lawyers outside the government, will nevertheless exert large influence over it. One of the most important questions is whether government lawyers are inadvertent policy-makers, and if so, how they make policy.

ESTHER LUCILE BROWN was director of the Department of Studies in the Professions at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Experiences and Attitudes of American Adults Concerning Standardized Intelligence Tests

Technical Report No. 1 on the Social Consequences of Testing
Authors
Orville G. Brim, Jr.
John Neulinger
David C. Glass
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Publication Date
212 pages

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In 1962 the Russell Sage Foundation initiated a series of studies on the social consequences of standardized intelligence, aptitude, and achievement testing. This book presents the initial results from the series, focusing on the social impact of tests of intellectual abilities, based on questionnaire responses from adults across the United States.

ORVILLE G. BRIM was president of the Russell Sage Foundation.

JOHN NEULINGER was assistant professor of psychology at City College of the City University of New York.

DAVID C. GLASS was professor of psychology at New York University.

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How to Interpret Social Work

A Study Course
Authors
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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Drugs and Society

Author
Bernard Barber
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225 pages

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In Drugs and Society, Bernard Barber organizes and criticizes what has been learned about drug behavior by biologists, medical researchers, pharmacologists, sociologists, practicing physicians, economists, and government officials, The author brings out the implications of what is now known, the perils of continued ignorance in many areas, and the need for a great deal of specific new research.

Barber examines the ethical considerations relating to experimentation with drugs on human subjects. He indicates that our social policy for the treatment of drug addicts is based on prejudice and ignorance and that it probably aggravates the troubles it seeks to eliminate.

BERNARD BARBER was professor of sociology at Barnard College, Columbia University

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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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Social Aspects of the Prolongation of Life

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Diana Crane
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978-0-87154-453-7

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A volume of the Russell Sage Foundation's Social Science Frontiers, occasional publications reviewing new fields for social science development. This paper explores the links between the social and biomedical sciences concerning the prolongation and termination of life, with the aim to stimulate scholars, foundations, and government agencies to further study death and dying in American society.

DIANA CRANE is associate professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

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The Delinquent Child and the Home

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Sophonisba P. Breckinridge
Edith Abbott
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370 pages

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The Delinquent Child and the Home is a study of juvenile courts in Cook County, Illinois, where the combination of a separate court and a separate place of detention for children, the abolition of fines, and a system of returning the child to his home and providing probation officers to help him there was at the time unprecedented.

SOPHONISBA P. BRECKINRIDGE was director of the Department of Social Investigation at the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy.

EDITH ABOTT was director of the Department of Social Investigation at the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy.

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Care and Education of Crippled Children in the United States

Author
Edith Reeves
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322 pages

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Published in 1914, Care and Education of Crippled Children in the United States served as a handbook for social workers interested in the care of disabled children. It provides information regarding hospitals, institutions, and asylums dedicated to crippled youth, particularly the state institutions in Massachusetts, New York, Minnesota, and Nebraska. Topics include education and vocational training, as well as detailed descriptions of the construction of physical spaces for disabled children.

EDITH REEVES was special agent at the Department of Child-Helping at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Women in the Bookbinding Trade

Author
Mary Van Kleeck
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Publication Date
326 pages

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This book, published in 1913, describes the results of the first investigation made by the Committee on Women's Work of the Russell Sage Foundation, part of a series of studies of the condition of women's work in important trades in New York City that demonstrate similar conditions throughout the United States. The bookbinding trade, one of the most important trades for women in the city at the time, is examined in detail. These findings were relevant to many other industries because it presented most of the important problems which confronted women wage-earners at the time.

MARY VAN KLEECK was secretary of the Committee on Women's Work at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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