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.

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.

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.

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