Illicit drug use, smoking, and drinking by America’s high school students, college students and young adults, 1975-1987 highlights

Social work and the genetics revolution : genetic services / Julia B. Rauch – The developmental tasks of siblingship over the life cycle / Ann Goetting – Family size effects : a review / Mazie Earle Wagner, Herman J.P. Schubert, Daniel S.P. Schubert – Assertive/leveling communication and empathy in adolescent drug abuse prevention / Paula… Continue reading Illicit drug use, smoking, and drinking by America’s high school students, college students and young adults, 1975-1987 highlights

Institutionalized organizations: Formal structure as myth and ceremony

Institutionalized organizations /; John W. Meyer and Brian Rowan –; Iron cage revisited /; Paul J. Di Maggio and Walter W. Powell –; Role of institutionalization in cultural persistence /; Lynne G. Zucker –; Organization of societal sectors /; W. Richard Scott and John W. Meyer –; Institutions, institutional effects, and institutionalism /; Ronald L.… Continue reading Institutionalized organizations: Formal structure as myth and ceremony

Chronic life situations and life change events: Content discussion

Grading the nation’s report card: A review of the National Assessment of Educational Progress

Recent findings from Monitoring the Future: A continuing study of the lifestyles and values of youth

A Guide for selecting statistical techniques for analyzing social science data

Validity of self-reports in student-based studies on minority populations : issues and concerns

Introduction and overview / Mario R. De La Rosa, Juan-Luis Recio Adrados, and Norweeta Milburn — Integrating mainstream and subcultural explanations of drug use among Puerto Rican youth / Orlando Rodriguez, Juan-Luis Recio Adrados, and Mario R. De La Rosa — Orthogonal cultural identification : theoretical links between cultural identification and substance use / E.R.… Continue reading Validity of self-reports in student-based studies on minority populations : issues and concerns

Data and research needs concerning union formation and dissolution

This paper has been written to provide a broad overview of union formation and dissolution in the United States. Our primary goal in writing the paper is to consider the current state of knowledge concerning the formation and dissolution of unions. We discuss a broad range of things that are currently understood about union formation… Continue reading Data and research needs concerning union formation and dissolution

The assessment of school effectiveness

The new institutionalism and the study of educational organizations: Changing ideas for changing times