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Increasing numbers of children are affected not only by living on the low end of the growing income and wealth divide, but also by a second disadvantage—their parents’ immigration status. An estimated 5.3 million children live with an unauthorized immigrant parent who lacks permission to live or work in the United States.

Emerging research on gene-by-environment interactions (GxE) has shown that gene expression is amplified or reduced in the presence of particular environments. Conversely, the effects of environments on individuals are influenced by the presence or absence of specific genetic susceptibilities. Given these findings, the integration of genetic data into large-scale multidisciplinary social surveys holds the potential to revolutionize our understanding of how social and biological forces interact to shape social and health inequalities over the life course.

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Social Science in Nursing

Applications for the Improvement of Patient Care
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Frances Cooke Macgregor
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Social Science in Nursing was the product of a three year project examining the application of the social sciences to nursing, conducted at the Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing.

FRANCES COOK MACGREGOR was visiting associate professor of social science at Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing.

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Lawyers' Ethics

A Survey of the New York City Bar
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Jerome E. Carlin
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In this 1966 book, Jerome E. Carlin, who was both a lawyer and a sociologist, marshals persuasive evidence that many lawyers do not consistently adhere to the standards of ordinary honesty, still less to the special professional rules in the canons of legal ethics. It calls for new and tough questions about the way the practice of law is organized.

JEROME E. CARLIN was professor at the Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University, and the Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley.

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Drugs and Society

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Bernard Barber
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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
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Otis Dudley Duncan
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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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