This volume contains fifteen papers that were delivered at a two-day conference under the auspices of Russell Sage Foundation and the Rockefeller University. The first volume was published in 1967 and dealt with the topic of neurophysiology and emotion. The second volume contained the proceedings of the conference on genetics and behavior and was published in 1968. The aim of the series was to strengthen the dialogue between the biological and social sciences.

Contributors:  Joaquín Cravioto, Richard H. Barnes, Edward A. Suchman, William A. Mason, Leon J. Yarrow, Peter Marler, Andrew Gordon, I. Arthur Mirsky, René Dubos, Richard H. Walters, D.E. Berlyne, William Kessen, P. Herbert Leiderman, Jerome Kagan, Urie Bronfenbrenner, and Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr.

With a foreword by Mary Van Kleeck. Part of the Industrial Relations Series, a series by the Department of Industrial Studies of the Russell Sage Foundation investigating early twentieth-century experiments in the organization of relations between employers and employees in industrial enterprises in the United States. How a company, which operated more than twenty bituminous coal mines, a large steel works, and a railroad in Colorado, undertook to organize its relations with its workers by instituting a plan of “employes’ representation” is the subject of two studies, one on coal mines and one on steel works.

Ben M. Selekman, Department of Industrial Studies, Russell Sage Foundation.

Material for this study was collected during the summer and early autumn of 1931, in response to a request from the President’s Organization on Unemployment Relief. Thirty communities were visited, and the reports on work relief carried out in 26 of them, chiefly situated in the middle, eastern, and southern states, can be found in Part II.

Joanna C. Colcord was director of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation. Assisted by William C. Koplovitz and Russell H. Kurtz.

The Mid-Century Committee on Outcomes in Elementary Education was assembled to describe for educations, test-makers, and interested citizens the measurable goals of instruction in American elementary schools. This 1953 report presents the specific objectives of elementary education as outlined by a distinguished group of consultants and evaluated by carefully selected critics.

Nolan C. Kearney was assistant superintendent for curriculum and research in the public schools of St. Paul, Minnesota.

Education and Training for Social Work examines vocational training in social work. The study is divided into two parts: part I, the field of social work, and part II, problems of education and training. Appendices include statistics on salaries and years of education, as well as registration statistics from institutions which offer preparation for social work.

James H. Tufts was professor of philosophy in the University of Chicago.

This book, published in 1959, examines systematic research in the field of parent education – the efforts, particularly between 1934 and 1959, designed to develop in parents a greater competence in the task of rearing their children – and describes the contributions of the social sciences to parent education theory and practice. It aims to provide a solid frame of reference against which the soundness of parent education efforts and concepts can be measured. It seeks to explore and clarify the contributions which social science theory and research have made and potentially could make to the successful planning of educational efforts directed to parents.

Orville G. Brim, Jr., was a sociologist at the Russell Sage Foundation. He taught at the University of Wisconsin and was the author of Sociology and the Field of Education.

Cultural Difference and Medical Care, published in 1954, explores the difficulties inherent to U.S. medical practitioners in supplying health services and medical care to Spanish-speaking people living in the American Southwest. While its examples are drawn from this culturally distinct population, its principles apply as well to any cultural or subcultural group in any geographic setting. 

Lyle Saunders was associate professor of preventive medicine and public health (sociology), University of Colorado, School of Medicine.

The study reported in this 1960 book examined the process of foster home placement and the impact of this process on the foster child. It also aimed to show some of the limits and potentialities of research in an actual practicing agency. The study grew out of a Russell Sage Foundation residency held by the author during 1954–1955 at the Chicago Child Care Society.

Eugene A. Weinstein was professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University.

Published in 1962, Cottage Six documents the implementation of more effective use of the social sciences in the therapeutic program of an institution for children, particularly its Cottage 6, inhabited by adolescent boys. It analyzes the problems that confront any institution that wishes to develop an integrated clinical and therapeutic community program.

Howard W. Polsky was professor at the New York School of Social Work, Columbia University.

This 1952 volume documents philanthropic contributions and policies of corporations. Part I presents a factual picture of corporate giving, including its historical development as well as its scope and problems. Part II discusses the beneficiaries of corporate giving, with suggestions on making wise choices, and separate sections on the more important agencies or groups of agencies, including institutions of higher education. Part III deals with legal and tax factors.

F. Emerson Andrews was director of publications at the Russell Sage Foundation.