Published in 1937 as part of a series of studies dealing with the status of emerging and established professions in the United States.
ESTHER LUCILE BROWN was director of the Department of Studies in the Professions at the Russell Sage Foundation.
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.
Nursing as a Profession was published in 1936 as part of a series of studies dealing with the present status of certain established and emerging professions in the United States.
ESTHER LUCILE BROWN was director of the Department of Studies in the Professions at the Russell Sage Foundation.
Lawyers and the Promotion of Justice, published in 1938, is part of a series dealing with the status of certain established or emerging professions in the United States. It focuses on the evolution of professional education and problems incident to it in regards to the field of law.
ESTHER LUCILE BROWN was director of the Department of Studies in the Professions at the Russell Sage Foundation.
This feature is part of an ongoing RSF blog series, Work in Progress, which highlights some of the research of our current class of Visiting Scholars.
Ann Morning (New York University) is currently collaborating with Marcello Maneri (University of Milan-Bicocca) to investigate the ways that Americans and Italians assess group differences such as race and nationality. In her time in residence at the Russell Sage Foundation, she is researching how national conceptions of culture and biology shape individuals’ beliefs about what distinguish descent-based groups from one another. As non-white immigration to the U.S. increases, are Americans’ conceptions of racial difference are coming to resemble those held by Italians and other Western Europeans?
In a new interview with the Foundation, Morning discussed the changing nature of racial perceptions in both the U.S. and Italy, and how a cross-national comparative approach to thinking and talking about race could aid policy efforts to combat racial inequality.
Q. Your current research compares perceptions of race in the US and Italy and assesses the claim that racial attitudes in the US are coming to resemble those found in Western Europe. To start with, what did you find in your interviews with students in the US? How were they most likely to talk about group differences?
The Russell Sage Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of sixteen leading social scientists as Visiting Scholars for the 2015-2016 academic year. During their time in residence, they will pursue research and writing projects that reflect the Foundation's commitment to strengthening the social sciences and conducting research "for the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States."
The Visiting Scholars program, now in its thirtieth year, provides a unique opportunity for scholars to pursue their research and writing while in residence at the Foundation, and is an important part of the Foundation's effort to analyze and understand the complex and shifting nature of social, political, and economic life in the United States.
Several incoming scholars will undertake research in socioeconomic and racial inequality, such as an analysis of the factors that drive racial wealth disparities, and an investigation of how increases in economic inequality have affected voter turnout in congressional elections. Others will work on projects related to the changing nature of work and the labor force, including a study of a new immigrant-driven tech economy in lower Manhattan. The incoming class of scholars also includes two working groups, one of which will examine the connections between low-income fathers’ earnings and financial support and their children’s cognitive and behavioral outcomes. The other group will use data from the Texas Twin Project, a study of over 1,000 twins, to examine the relationship between genetic and social factors in adolescent development and academic achievement.
Two Worlds of Childhood is a cross-cultural study of child rearing and education in the U.S. and the Soviet Union, published in 1970. Bronfenbrenner conducted research in the Soviet Union to study child rearing in the family and collective settings.
URIE BRONFENBRENNER was professor of Psychology and of Child Development and Family Studies at Cornell University, and one of the founders of the Head Start Program.
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.
In 1949, the Russell Sage Foundation instituted a counseling service for colleges and universities that wished to improve their existing schools of nursing or introduce new nursing curricula, headed by Dr. Margaret Bridgman. After visits to more than eighty colleges around the country, the National League of Nursing Education invited her to continue the work under the new National League for Nursing in 1952. This report presents her findings.
MARGARET BRIDGMAN was academic dean of Skidmore College.
Based on data from new clients who came to a large social agency over a four-month period, Social Workers’ Perceptions of Clients examines the characteristics of clients as they are perceived by caseworkers. It aims to discover and expose underlying dimensions along which the characteristics of female clients, unmarried mothers, and male clients are perceived.
EDGAR F. BORGATTA was social psychologist at the Russell Sage Foundation.
DAVID FANSHEL was professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work.
HENRY J. MEYER was professor of social work and sociology at the University of Michigan.
