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American Foundations and the Social Sciences

by Francis X. Sutton* THE SUPPORT AND USE of the social sciences by American foundations has been so extensive and pervasive that it is nearly impossible to give a comprehensive view of where it begins and ends. Modern philanthropy has sought to do more than comfort the afflicted: It has aspired to be rational philanthropy, getting at the roots of human ills and deprivations.

Judgment, experience, and common sense- are as much needed in foundations as elsewhere, but they need to be bolstered by the kind of specialized knowledge and orderly investigation that the social sciences supply. The large foundations that aspire to deal with national and international problems feel these needs particularly acutely. Whether they are trying to improve health services, to find better models of day care centers to help working women, or to improve thinking about international economic policy, they

* Mr. Sutton has been acting president of the Council since October I, 1985, replacing Kenneth Prewitt, who resigned the Council presidency to become vice president for program at the Rockefeller Foundation. Mr. Sutton received a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University in 1950 and taught af Harvard from 1949 to 1954. Hejoined the staff of the Ford Foundation in 1954 as an executive associate in the behavioral sciences program. In 1957, when that program was terminated, he shifted to the international development program, becoming deputy vice president of the international division. a position which he held until his retirement in 1983. This article is adapted from his testimony before the Science Policy Task Force. Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, September 19, 1985.

Although Mr. Sutton was at that time a consultant to the Ford Foundation. he testified as an individual, not as a representative

need some orderly analysis of the subjects to proceed in the confidence that they are doing something sensible. Characteristically, in dealing with any broad subject, there is a concern for the intellectual and professional resources there are in this country or in the world for dealing with it.

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American Foundations and the Social Sciences Francis X. Sulton Giftedness in the Visual Arts - Ellen WiUfIt'T and David Pamer Council Awards 23 MacArthur Foundation Fellowships in I mernalional Security Council's Board Honors Kenneth Prewitt Currem Activities at the Council _ Council initiates new advanced grants program for research on U.S. foreign policy making (page 73) _ Research access (page 73) _ Access to public data (page 73) _ Case study methods (page 74) _ The 1986 SIPP panel (page 75) _ Council initiates new program in advanced German and European studies (page 76) _ Cognition-emotion interrei:.Jlinnships (page 76) _ Selfhood in life-course perspective (page 77) _ The political economy of health and disease (page 79)

_ Council seeks staff associate for its Japan program I(page 81) _ The coordination of economic policies between Japan and the United States (page 81 ) _ Media and politics in Japan (page 82) _ Regional seminars on Japan (page 82) _ Korean Buddhism (page 82) 83 Recent Council Publications

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Use of the social sciences by foundations Foundations thus use the social sciences a great deal whether they are consciously supporting them or not.

But at the present time there are very few foundations with the declared purpose of supporting the social sciences-too few, in my personal judgment.

There is, indeed, much less declared concern with the state of the social sciences than there has been in the past. While there is a continuing effort to deal rationally with a broad array of social and human problems, this does not lead to substantial concern with the state of the social sciences as such. Marshall Robinson, president of the Russell Sage Foundation, prepared some estimates in 1983 indicating that foundation funding for social science research had not declined significantly in nominal terms since the 1960s and had indeed increased enough as a percentage of total grant making to compensate for the overall decline in large foundation spending that went through the 1970s.' Such estimates are subject to grave uncertainties, but there was clearly a decline in constant dollars.

Other evidence suggests that there has been no foundation retreat in the 1980s from the use of the social sciences in the topics that attract foundation interest, but this does not mean a sustained concern with and support of social science research as a professional and academic enterprise. 2 There is a serious historical argument to be made that the most distinctive contribution of the United States to the development of the sciences has lain in the social sciences. However distinguished American physical and biological sciences have become in this century, they have been offsprings and continuators of European pioneering. Our humanistic scholarship also has its roots in Europe. The social sciences as far-flung academic and professional enterprises seem to have been more natively American. While philanthrophy can claim some credit for this American flowering, it owes more to other influences-among them certain distinctive features of American higher education as it developed across the country; a peculiarly American disposition to think that large parts of human affairs are manageable by knowledge and

I Robinson calculated thal in 1964 "the big four in social science" - Carnegie. Ford, Rockefeller, and Sloan-made grants lOtaliing $320 million, of which about 11 per cent went for social science research; in 1980, these four foundations granted 17 per cent of a total of $160 million for social science research. See Items, September 1983, page 37.

2 d. Patricia Read. Foundations Today: Current Facts and Figures on Private Foundations. New York: Foundation Center. 1984.

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techniques accessible to all people regardless of ultimate beliefs and affiliations, political or otherwise; and, finally, to our optimism about the perfectibility of human affairs through enlightened effort. Despite this natural American disposition toward them, the social sciences have not been easy to support, through either government or foundations. In the old days, when Americans kept the federal government limited in size and foundations like Andrew Carnegie's and John D. Rockefeller's had great opportunities to fill in where public monies were lacking, foundations found that education, libraries, and the health and natural sciences were easier to support than the social sciences. The Carnegie Institution of Washington sponsored a department of economics and sociology in 1902 but later abandoned it; the Rockefeller Foundation briefly flirted with economics research under MacKenzie King, but was scared off by the Walsh inquiry of 1915. It took the special genius of Beardsley Ruml, using Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial monies in the 1920s, to make a significant and lasting foundation contribution to the development of the social sciences. By the 1920s, there was in American universities a group of leaders who wanted more objective and empirical study of society than the social reformers practiced and the Memorial's grants gave lasting impetus to the social sciences in American universities, the Social Science Research Council, the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Brookings Institution, and the London School of Economics? By 1929, when the Memorial was absorbed into the Rockefeller Foundation, its funds provided the base for a social science division which has continued to this day. It was not long, however, before the Rockefeller Foundation abandoned the block grants to universities for the social sciences that Ruml had favored. The social science division turned towards a more focused support of research, maintaining a concern with basic social science but gradually abandoning direct funding for the improvement of the social sciences.

In Rockefeller's tradition, a strong concern for the sciences has favored more direct attention to academic disciplines and basic research than Carnegie and Ford have had. Both these latter foundations have been more disposed to direct attention to a major national or international problem and to engage social

3 Martin Bulmer and Joan Bulmer. "Philamhropy and Social Science in the 1920's: Beardsley Ruml and the Laura Spelman Rockereller Memorial, 1922-1929." Minerva, 19:347-407, Winter 1981.

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<,ientists in it, often with important impacts on the >ocial sciences themselves but only incidentally to their major purpose. Hence, for example, Carnegie's support of the study of American race relations in Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma (1944) and its initiation of the Russian Research Center at Harvard in the postwar period. When Ford came on the scene, at the turn of the 1950s, it was committed very broadly to the advancement of human welfare; the study group that set its program recommended that "improved scientific knowledge of individual behavior in human relations" was one principal way it should lI'Y to do so. A behavioral science program was established in 1951 that was looked to with hopeful excitement across the country-the label "behavioral sciences" was chosen because it could clearly embrace psychology and because it was thought to suggest a more firmly scientific approach than "social sciences" did. This program had a troubled career, however, and was terminated in 1957. Why this should have happened is a matter of some personal interest to me, and a little account of this bit of Foundation history may be helpful in understanding why foundations have not been more active in support of the basic social sciences.

tists were in particular thought to have liberal or leftish biases and in the tremulous anxieties over nationalloyalty that marked the time, they were thought by many to be "socialistic" or worse. There was also the doubt that these were or could be successful sciences, that their discoveries were few while they pontificated on the obvious, or obscured the familiar in clouds of jargon. Views of these sorts had their representation within the Foundation. The first president, Paul Hoffman, and his principal associate, Robert Maynard Hutchins, had little faith that the behavioral science program they were charged to develop would be fruitful. They thought the record discouraging and they were glad to turn over to Rowan Gaither -who had recommended the program in the first place-the responsibility for developing it. Gaither undertook to do so, first as an associate director and then as president of the Foundation. But the trustees were not happy with the program and it lasted only a few months after Gaither resigned the presidency in 1956 (to become chairman of the board). Basically, the demise of the program seems to have been due to the difficulties of making a program that had longterm academic and intellectual aims intelligible and credible to laymen. Ultimate lay control of any scientific or intellectually specialized endeavor always involves a delicate mediation between faith and authority, and the belated public support of scientific The Ford Foundation's behavioral research in the United States suggests that it may sciences program have been particularly difficult in this country to orThere have always seemed to be ambivalences in ganize ourselves for such endeavors. The very selfAmerican attitudes towards the social sciences and reliant individualism in which we have prided ourthey were particularly marked at the time the Ford selves has made us reluctant to surrender to the auFoundation appeared on the scene with a new program thority of experts, and such surrender has been parfor the 1950s. There was on the one side a surging ticularly difficult in matters that touch our intimate optimism about America's strength and power. The lives or seem to lie within the realms of practical contributions of science and technology to American judgment and experience. It has often been argued strength were appreciated with new enthusiasm and that the paroxysms of concern over national loyalty some of this enthusiasm extended to the social sci- which marked the 1950s came from diffuse anxieties ences. The study committee report that laid out the over changes that were diminishing Americans' connew program for the Ford Foundation was only one fidence of being able to control their own existences among many examples at that time of faith being with what they had learned at their fathers' and expressed in the necessary place of these subjects in a mothers' knees. I believe there is something in this hopeful human future. But there were critics and argument. With the decline of traditional beliefs, we suspicious doubters too, both within and outside the have all become more dependent in our individual Foundation. The congressional hearings on the Na- lives and our society for guidance from the "best, tional Science Foundation in the 1940s showed some up-to-date knowledge." Such dependence on knowlof these; others appeared in the Cox and Reece in- edge possessed by specialists provokes resistances vestigations of foundations in 1952 and 1954. There even in matters such as health, where we have had was on the one hand the suspicion that the social and much more tolerance for unintelligible Latinities than behavioral sciences could not be divorced from ideol- we have had for the jargon of social scientists. While ogy or advocacy and as such made false or misleading there was more widespread confidence in the 1950s claims to the status of objective sciences. Social scien- than later that an objective, value-free social or beDECEMBER

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havioral science was a real possibility, the atmosphere had turbulence and instabilities from the sources I have been describing. They had their effects on Ford's behavioral science program, which was also handicapped by such organizational factors as the policy of requiring direct trustee approval of most grants; this policy meant that social science research projects had to be presented directly to a lay board.

This procedure gave maximal opportunities for doubts and questionings that did not arise in some other foundation programs which were in fact supporting a great deal of social science research but which did not have to explain its substance to the

Program in 1967. This nrogram had been far and away the largest private f;)UrCe of support for the development of area studies and other types of international studies in the American universities, with commitments of about $270 million by 1967. The great bulk of these funds went to support training and research in the social sciences and humanities.

There was a bias toward emphasizing the social sciences over the humanities and the contemporary scene over the past, and it would certainly not be wrong to claim that more than half of these funds went to the social sciences.

Support for international studies continued during trustees. the 1970s, though at a lower level and with a rather substantial shift in character. It was the Ford Foundation's practice for many years to distinguish "interDeclining Ford support for the social sciences national studies" from "international affairs," the After the behavioral science program was aban- former being mostly concerned with the academic doned in 1957, no comparable program was revived study of world areas, the latter more with policy by the Ford Foundation nor has any other of the large analysis and other approaches to dealing with U.S. foundations come along to replace it. The Ford foreign policy and world problems in security, interFoundation in fact continued to be a major supporter national economics, and other fields. The adjacent of the social sciences, and of social science research in table shows the very marked shift in the balance beparticular, for many years thereafter. It did so di- tween these types of support from 1965 through rectly in economics throughout the 1960s. But the 1981. Note that 1965 was almost the peak year for greater part of the support came indirectly, through international studies--support slightly increased in the massive support of universities and colleges, through next year, but the decline was then sharp and rapid fellowship programs for graduate students, and with occasional revivals through special programs or through its international programs. To determine terminal endowments that were made to preserve how much of the $349 million the Ford Foundation something for the future. International affairs inprovided in challenge grants to 84 colleges and uni- cludes many activities that are academic in base and versities between 1960 and 1970 went to building up character and many that are not. It leans heavily on the social sciences would be a difficult investigation the social sciences but characteristically in their applithat no one has attempted, but the amounts were cation to problems of security, international organicertainly substantial. Likewise, some historian of the zation, regional questions, or economic problems. social sciences in this country may want to know how Whatever the relative merits of these types of activity many of the Woodrow Wilson fellowships went to may be for the service of the public good, it seems budding social scientists or how much of the $41.5 probable that international studies have been more million for graduate education given to 10 major uni- closely and generally related to the academic social versities between 1967 and 1972 went to social scien- sciences than the policy studies of international affairs tists. I recall these programs not to celebrate what the have been. Thus, while the Ford totals for these types Ford Foundation has done but to underscore a very of support show an interesting constancy through the important change that has occurred since the 1960s. 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, the strong shift After that decade, the broad support of major re- toward international affairs suggests a shift toward search universities that had been a part of Ford's the more applied or specialized social sciences.

Two general observations arise immediately from programs fell away almost completely, and with this decline and fall a major source of foundation support an examination of the adjacent table. One is the very steep decline in the Ford Foundation's overall exfor the social sciences passed away. penditures from the heights of the mid-1960s to the low levels in the latter half of the 1970s, with some Ford support for international studies recovery in the 1980s. The decline would be much A similar decline came about following the termi- more dramatic in constant dollars. Similar declines nation of the International Training and Research appeared in other foundations. Nearly all of the 60

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1965 1966 1967 1968 1969

46.6 47.2 26.0 6.6 6.6

4.7 4.4 3.4 4.2 5.0

51.3 51.6 29.4 10.8 11.6

299.5 362.2 262.6 210.2 238.0

1970 1971 1972 1973 1974

13.2 9.4 11.6 8.9 9.6

5.2 4.2 2.9 6.3 7.4

18.4 13.6 14.5 15.2 17.0

236.8 225.1 218.5 237.0 251.6

1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

7.4 5.9 2.6 4.6 2.2

4.4 8.0 8.0 7.8 10.2

11.8 13.9 10.6 12.4 12.4

204.6 159.4 124.0 129.9 107.8

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114.1 122.4 135.8 127.9 167.0

â&#x20AC;˘ Total expenditures as here summarized include program activities and program and general management COSLS, but not the costs of raising income or the federal excise lax. Such was the practice in public reponing of expenditures lO 1980; subsequent to that year, the reponing praClice cha nged and the figures have been adjusted accordingly. Since the reorganization of programs aflcr 198 1. international studies have been included in the totals for international relations.

Souru: Ford Foundation published and unpublished rcpons.

major foundations were damaged in their strength by the combination of inflation and adverse capital markets through the 1970s and early 1980s. Despite the fact that overall foundation philanthropy has grown in nominal terms in recent years, reaching some $3.6 billion in 1983, one must observe with melancholy a decline in the relative weight of foundations in meeting American needs. The Ford Foundation did not reduce the fraction of its total commitments to intern ational matters. There was, however, the sharp decline in "international studies" which was only partially compensated by fresh commitments of other foundations such as Mellon and Hewlett to these subjects. The funds the Ford Foundation put into the development of area studies programs in American universities in the 1960s contributed, along with federal funds under the National Defense Education Act of 1958, to what a recent report of the Association of American Univers;ties called "the creation of a network of institutions unmatched anywhere in the world , a national resource DECEMBER 1985

whose loss would immensely impoverish the capacity of our democratic society and our government to understand the complex, interrelated world in which we live."4 With reduced foundation funding, the indispensability of federal funding for these institutions, now through Title VI of the Higher Education Act, is evident if they are to be preserved. The reduced resources of Ford and other foundations in real terms means that these and other great investments of the 1960s could hardly be repeated even if there were a strong disposition to renew them. A major new thrust in priv~te foundation support of area studies seems unlikely in the near future in any case. The disposition that the table shows for Ford to favor policy and other studies in international affairs is one that is paralleled in other foundations, as

4 Richard O. Lambert el a l. Beyond Growth: The Next Stage in Area and Language Studies. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Universities. 1984, page 9.

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we see in the recent commitments of MacArthur, Carnegie, Rockefeller, and others in internationalpeace and security studies. We all have welcomed this upsurge of interest in the awesome security problems of the nuclear age, and the many fresh challenges to the social sciences they present, but we must remember that they draw on at least as much as they nurture the disciplinary resources themselves.

sideringl how science might be used to eliminate poverty, ignorance and disease in the rest of the world.

This surely is our greatest challenge.'" We have a tendency to neglect this challenge unless our attention is forced by African famirie or by fears of invasion by destitute masses. We must not do so, and if experience with aid programs has taught us anything, it is that the problems of development are more difficult than we thought and are not to be mastered without better research and analysis than we have thus far brought to them.

The internationalization of the social sciences The social sciences, by their very nature, are and One further aspect of foundation interest in inter- ought to be international enterprises, and it is very national matters remains to be nOled. A grt!'al inter- much in the interest of this country to sustain the nationalization of the social sciences has occurred resources which makes us attractive to both students during recent decades, both in the range of American and mature social scientists from abroad and that interests and in the growth of professional social sci- assure our capacities to work with them. I am proud ence communities around the world. Assistance to the and happy that the Social Science Research Council developing countries has required the growth of has an important role in these relationships, which it competences in the social sciences and this has been a plans to sustain as well as its resources permit. But I particular interest of foundations. I am most familiar have some serious disquiets over the decline in recent with what the Ford Foundation has done, but there years of resources from the foundations and have been major contributions by others, notably the elsewhere, resources that make possible the graduate Rockefeller Foundation through its Education for training of foreign social scientists here and that enDevelopment and other programs. The conception able our own social scientists to travel and engage in that indigenous competences in the social sciences are cooperative research abroad. indispensable to developing countries has weathered I must turn from these international aspects of many changes and disillusionments in development American social science, important as they are, to a strategy. It is hardly conceivable that modern nations broader concern with the state of the social sciences can cope with their national and international prob- and their needs. lems without professional economists and other social scientists, and it is one of the more striking features of Ford Foundation policy in the 1970s that the building Skepticism about the social sciences of such competences persisted vigorously through the painful budget reductions that had to be made during There has undoubtedly been a weakening of faith that decade. The great training resources of the in the capacities of the social sciences to guide us American universities have been indispensable to this reliably toward solutions of society'S problems. The effort and a large fraction of the world's social science social sciences are not unique or special victims of leadership has now had American training. I believe contemporary skepticism. The questionings and misthese relationships have intellectual importance as trust that have appeared in American society since the well as the evident value they have for the interna- 1960s have reduced faith in government and in most tional relations of the United States. They help keep of our other institutions. The sciences generally have our social scientists from parochialism and they di- not escaped questioning of their beneficence, and rect attention to large bodies of subject matter that sometimes have had to face downright hostility. While have been threatened with neglect as the United we have nostalgia for the more trusting and optimistic States has become more preoccupied with its own America of the past, we cannot deplore the growth of problems and fewer Americans have been engaged in the more critical and discriminating assessments amid technical assistance. As I was preparing my remarks which we now live. I believe that abundant contention for this occasion, I happened to read a review by the great biological scientist, Max Perutz, of a book on the future of science. I was happy to find him criticizing ~ Review of Gerald Feinberg, "Solid Clues: QuanlUITI Physics, the author for seeking "the future as a collection of Molecular Biology and the FUlure of Science." NtuJ York Review oj technological fixes in the United States, but not [con- Books, September 6, 1985, page 17.

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is an inseparable consequence of that fundamental geon with efforts to say what the fields now are. tendency of modern societies which the great German Clifford Geertz has recently tried to tell what the field sociologist, Max Weber, called the process of ration- of anthropology has become since the old days when alization. As this process goes on, our governing in- it was comfortable as a holding company for physical stitutions come under more and more pressure to anthropology, linguistics, archeology, and social and plan and justify actions as objectively and rationally as cultural anthropology. The old boundaries have burst possible. I was impressed to read recently that $ I 22 . at many points, the old objects of study in tribes and billion or about one-fifth of the total federal budget exotic communities have dissolved into the provinces obligations in fiscal 1979 was committed through that now belong to other disciplines, and a distinctive statistical formulas, and that some 57 per cent of all methodology becomes an uncertain refuge. With budget expenditures in 1981 was indexed directly or characteristic adroitness, Geertz eludes despair by obindirectly to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and other serving that anthropologists, whatever they are, still indices, whereas in 1966 only two per cent of the win the attention and esteem of wider intellectual budget was automatically indexed路 Our relian",: on communities,7 but he leaves much for others to disstatistics and the research on which they are based pute about his field.

Evidence of similar disquiets in sociology caught grows awesomely, and will not be reversed whatever the criticisms over them that abound. In our private public attention recently in the rejection of a prolives, magazines, newspapers, and even television tell posed tenure appointment at Harvard on the us about the latest research findings 路 on how we grounds that it would not serve the core of the discishould run our businesses, our families, and our- pline. Struggles over the accommodation of new talselves. We complain about the prevalence of these ents, new subjects, and new methods can certainly be social and behavioral guides, just as we grumble viewed as signs of healthy growth. They are about doctors, but we eagerly submit to them. nonetheless perturbing and provoke conflicts that In such circumstances, one might suppose that many have found dispiriting. The immense variety of there would be more anxious concern over the state activities that attempt to be important and authoritatof the social and behavioral sciences than in fact there ive inevitably requires a sorting and evaluation in any seems to be. At the outset, I briefly described the field that aspires to the name of a discipline. The decline of foundation attention to the basic social and social and behavioral sciences, no less than others, behavioral sciences. There are a few bright spots, in must have agreed-upon standards of reliable knowlthe Sloan Foundation's attention to economics and in edge and of what is important. The struggle to mainthe Russell Sage Foundation's programs, but I am tain these standards without throttling variety and sure others will speak of these and I need not dwell on innovation is perennial and must be the responsibility them. Newer foundations have brought important of leaders in the discipline. It is not a process that can stimuli, as the MacArthur Foundation has done for be legislated or controlled by outsiders. Beyond an international security and environmental studies, but uncertain minimum, the effects of money are probathere has been no evidence of a new general interest bly secondary. But the lack of money for develin the basic disciplines as such. Nor does one readily opments that look to be important for a discipline can foresee a shift of policy in the older foundations in seriously reduce the flexibility and geniality that ought to prevail as the leaders of disciplines balance this direction. contending standards and claims. The present dearth of foundation attention to matters that are important to the disciplines and not merely to their uses cerConfusion in the disciplines tainly increases the importance of the federal govThere is certainly no dearth of questions and con- ernment's support of these fields through the Nacerns about the state of the behavioral and social tional Science Foundation, the National Institutes of sciences that need to be addressed. The growth of the Health, and other agencies. Kenneth Prewitt frefields and the professional communities in them has quently emphasized, during his years as president of been enormous in the past generation and has the Social Science Research Council, the importance brought such dizzying change that the journals bur- of what he called "the national staff to the social sciences," which worries about the state and needs of 8 James Bonnen. "Federal Statistical Coordination Today: A Disaster or a Disgrace?" The American Statistician, 37(3): 179-192, August 1983. See page 184 for references to the relevant sources.

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the heady self-confidence that marked the American ascendancy after World War II, we tended to forget such cautions. Now, in a more chastened mood, there is a prospect that we may be ready to tip the balance away from ready solutions and pursue deeper underProspects for future foundation support standing. One sees much evidence of this tendency in Looking to the future, there may be some glim- the more amicable relationship between the social merings of hope that the foundations may be moved sciences and the humanities that now prevails. This toward a broader concern for these fields. I often rapprochement seems to come, in part at least, from a think we have been passing through a time reminis- renewed sense of the manifold diversity of human cent of the Romantic Revolt at the beginning of the experience and the need to recognize its concreteness 19th century. There came in the turbulence of the and complexity without abandoning the order of late 1960s and early 1970s a passion for direct experi- theory and generalization. Whether we are trying to ence and a reaction against rational deliberation that know what to make of a militant Islam or of changes in was like the Romantic turn against the grand visions family life in this country, there is an enlivened apof the Enlightenment. We still feel the force of this preciation that we must understand a great deal about tide and I see in the programs of foundations more things we can do little about if we are to select sensible taste for action programs and a complementary courses of action. The studies which envelop sensible distaste for "studies for the shelf' than was charac- courses of action must come from people trained in teristic a couple of decades ago. There has even been the ways of objective, disinterested knowledge. Cera decline in enthusiasm for policy studies that has tainly not all of them will be professional social and strengthened the taste for action and demonstration behavioral scientists, but nearly all will have had their programs. But tides that rise also fall, and we will views touched by them.

In such a future, it is reasonable to expect more undoubtedly think differently in years to come. What vigorous and comprehensive attention by the founour next hopes and enthusiasms may be can only be dations to the social and behavioral sciences. The dimly discerned, but there is reason to think that foundations may again embrace the social and be- diminished strengths of the foundations vis-a-vis govhavioral sciences more warmly. Some of the disillu- ernment and indeed many other parts of our society sionment with these subjects that came along in the mean that the foundations are not likely ever again to last decade and a half was a result of overconfidence. assume the prominence they had a few decades ago.

There was a naive positivism that marked much of The role of governmental support-particularly from what we did, domestically and internationally, in the the federal government, but also from the state govyears after World War II. We knew better than to ernments through their support of universities and believe that right knowledge would suffice for dealing research activities-must be of critical importance in with human problems. The then president of the the future. On the other hand, the diminished scale Social Science Research Council told a congressional of the foundations provides attractions for them to committee in 1954 that "the social sciences provide no play intellectual and innovative roles. Foundations complete answers to any practical problem.'" But in are not likely to abandon their efforts to foster experiments and innovations. But the reach of new 8 See, for example, his "Annual Report of the President," Social knowledge and ideas and the need for varied sources Scie.~ce Research Council, 1984-85 AnnUld Report, pages xxvof support to those who produce them have lasting XXVII. attractions that one dares hope will grow in the future S Pendleton Herring. Statement prepared for the Reece Comto the benefit of both the social sciences and society. 0 mittee, June 15. 1954; Supplementary Statement B. page 8.

the disciplines.路 One of the losses from the decline of general foundation concern with these fields has been a diminution in the small band of people and organizations which has fulfilled this function.

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Giftedness in the Visual Arts

by Ellen Winner and David Pmiser*

PSYCHOLOGISTS HAVE LONG CONCERNED THEMSELVES

with the study of exceptional ability, as is reflected by the longstanding interest in intelligence and intelligence testing (Binet & Simon 1908; Galton 1883; Spearman 1923; Sternberg 1977). The abilities measured by intelligence tests usually fall into two categories: verbal and logical-mathematical. We do not have well-work ed-out stamidrdized tests of ability in other domains, such as interpersonal understanding, athletics, or the arts (Gardner 1983). Reasons for this lack are not difficult to find. To begin with, reflecting the common Western prejudice, psychologists have classified verbal and logical-mathematical skills as the preeminent cognitive abilities, and hence as the ones most worth investigating. Second, it is more difficult to devise standardized tests in areas as slippery to define as interpersonal knowledge or the arts.

Recently, however, psychologists have begun to explore development-both ordinary and exceptional-in such nontraditional domains of competence (cf. Feldman 1980; Gardner 1983). The Council's Committee on Development, Giftedness, and the Learning Process was formed in part to explore the nature of exceptional abilities in a wide variety of domains, ranging from music, to moral knowledge, to the visual arts (Gardner & Dudai 1985). The structure and development of giftedness in the visual arts, one of the areas that the committee has explored, constituted the theme of a workshop held at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on January 4-6, 1985. (For a list of participants, see the adjacent box.)

Three issues dominated the discussion: (I) the components of visual giftedness in the adult artist; (2) the signs of visual giftedness in early childhood; and (3) the role of social factors, such as teachers, family,

* Ellen Winner is a developmental psychologist at Boston College; she is also a research associate at Project Zero, Harvard University. David Pariser is an art educator who teaches in the Faculty of Fine Ans at Concordia University in Montreal. They were the organizers of the Council workshop upon which this repon is based. Winner's work was supported by the Spencer Foundation. Pariser's research while on sabbatical leave was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The order of the aUlhorship of this anicle was dete路rmined by the toss of a coin.

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and the community, in the development of visual giftedness. In what follows, we highlight some of the major conclusions reached on each of these issues and end with a brief discussion of some unresolved issues meriting further investigation.

The components of giftedness in visual art The attempt to specify the components of giftedness in visual art is problematic. While we all possess a tacit conception of what is meant by such giftedness, it is difficult to reach an explicit consensus about these criteria. A domain in which there exists a single, unequivocal criterion (such as high jumping) submits more readily to scientific categorization. To complicate matters further, the term "gifted" reflects values which are an invisible part of our social fabric. Our

Workshop Participants The panicipams in the workshop on giftedness in the visual arts were Howard S. Becker, Northwestern University; George Bogardi, anist and art educator, Laval University (Quebec); Margaret C. Clark, an educator, Project Zero, Harvard University; AI Hurwitz, an educator, The Maryland Institute, College of Art (Baltimore); Nathan KnobleI', anist and art educator, Philadelphia College of An (Philadelphia); Diana Korzenik, art educator, Massachusetts College of An (Boston); Walter E. Meinelt, an educator, Masconomet Regional High School (Topsfield, Massachusetts); Marilyn R. Pappas, artist and art educator, Massachusetts College of Art (Boston); Christophel- Pratt, artist, Ml. Carmel, Sl. Mary's Bay (Newfoundland); William T. Reiman, artist and an educator, Harvard University; Brent Wilson, art educator, Pennsylvania State University; Joachim F.Wohlwill, psychologist, Pennsylvania State University; Dennie P. Wolf, psychologist, Project Zero, Harvard University; anu Crystal Woodwal-d, art educator, Vauclmf" (France). The members of the Council's Committee on Development, Giftedness, and the Learning Process are David H. Feldman, Tufts University, chair; Jeanne Bamberger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, University of Chicago; Yadin Dudai, The Weizmann I nstiLUte of Science (Rehovet); Howard Gardner, Veterans Administration Medical Center (Boston); Howard E. Gruber, University of Geneva; and Helen Weinreich-Haste, University of Bath. Lonnie R. Sherrod serves as staff.

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conception of giftedness in any domain must be understood as rooted in its particular 20th century, Western setting.

With this in mind, workshop members proposed two basic components of visual giftedness: cognitive and perceptual skills; and personality and motivational attributes. These components may be neither necessary nor sufficient for giftedness; nor need they all co-occur in one individual. Instead, they were proposed as characteristic of giftedness in the visual arts-particularly in the subfield of painting and drawing.

Cognitive and perceptual factors _ There was general agreement that the most striking component of giftedness in visual artistry is virtuosity in graphic representation-the capacity to render the visual world accurately. The gifted artist is also able to invent novel, unexpected images. Visual problems are solved in new ways and new problems are proposed as subjects for visual exploration. As with virtuosity in rendering, this component coincides with commonsensical ideas about the components of creativity. Of course, it should be remembered that the high value placed on novelty by the Western artistic tradition is a relatively recent development--<>ne not shared by most other artistic traditions.

Not surprisingly, many visual artists report that they organize their experiences in visual terms, become extremely involved in the arrangement of their visual environment, and possess extraordinary visual memories. The artists present at the workshop recalled that they had excelled at any school subject with a visual component, such as biology, for example.

They also reported vivid visual memories of the many rooms in which they had lived since childhood.

Personality and motivational factors. Personality and motivational factors may be as important to visual giftedness as cognitive- perceptual ones. Artists often need to display perseverance and toughness in order to achieve recognition. Such determination is necessary in a domain which is not highly valued or supported by the mainstream of our society. The artists reported that they were possessed by a strong drive to make art, and could conceive of no other vocation for themselves.

Perseverance and drive are of course only possible if one has the energy for sustained and concentrated work. Most visual artists do seem to have high levels of energy. For instance, Pappas reported that she persisted in making art through births, marital separation, and deaths. Pratt commented that he actually welcomed the drugdery of the academic training he received in art school. He simply enjoyed "sweating it 66

out," even though he felt that he learned nothing new from the academic exercises.

Artists display tenacity in going their own way despite constant messages from our society that the arts are a peripheral activity. Such firm belief in oneself is necessary if one is to succeed in a domain as unconventional as the arts. Sometimes self-confidence is a great advantage, sustaining the person through many years of hardship and anonymity. The same trait may also be a tragic flaw--<>ne which renders the artist oblivious to potentially constructive criticism.

Such self-confidence may be characteristic only of artists in Weslern <..:ultures, where individuality is highly valued. Moreover, in the 20th century, there is a sharp separation between the art world (whose acclaim artists seek) and the rest of the population (whose acclaim artists are indifferent to or may even reject). Most contemporary artists do not expect a popular audience.

Finally, artists seek and enjoy the tension of challenge. They are problem finders rather than problem solvers. Like other kinds of individuals who have reached a high level of achievement in their fields (e.g., surgeons, rock climbers), artists report "flow" experiences (Getzels & Csikszentmihalyi 1976). They often work at a level of challenge located strategically between boredom and anxiety and many sustain their intense involvement in work by creating obstacles or by inventing limitations. The artist Will em de Kooning, for instance, deliberately chose to use cheap, long-handled brushes which responded erratically to the canvas. It was precisely this quality of lack of control to which he was attracted.

Development of giftedness in the visual arts After considering the major components of giftedness in the visual arts, participants turned to the issue of the development of such giftedness in childhood.

Two developmental issues were debated: What (if any) are the early signs of talent in the visual arts?

Does artistic ahility decline with age in the gifted child, as some psychologists claim occurs with the average child?

Early signs. While numerous tests have been developed to identify children who are gifted in the visual arts, most participants agreed that such tests are unnecessary. Teachers feel that they can intuitively identify gifted children. Surprisingly, this kind of ready identification seems to be possible even during the preschool years.

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the workshop, giftedness in the visual arts can be as a profession either achieve success fairly soon detected long before the child shows any ability to or change careers. Women, however, tend to drop draw representationally. One early sign of visual gif- out of the art world, have children, and then later tedness, for instance, is an interest in visual patterns. find their way back. Hence, the characteristics of men Visually gifted children notice accidental forms, in our society who successfully pursue careers in the shadows, blots, etc., and engage in a sustained explo- arts may be quite different from those of women. ration of these visually interesting patterns. They also A second caveat was that early visual giftedness and create their own visual patterns, deriving deep satis- an interest in drawing do not necessarily manifest faction from the careful and focused exploration of themselves in drawing activity later on. For example, linear forms.

Wolf described a child who when young drew conA second sign of precocious visual skill in very stantly and was fascinated by line. Although this child young children is the tendency to note visual gave up drawing for writing at adolescence, her writsimilarities between objects not normally considered ten work was filled with powerful visual descriptions. similar. Wolf described one visually gifted child who Thus, early proclivity for the visual arts may not precalled a wire wisk with a stick through it "a crane"; dict continuing involvement in the visual arts but may shoes lined up in a box are called "peas"; and ocean manifest itself in some genotypically (but not waves with ear-like prominences, "bunnies." phenotypically) similar form-for instance, a literary Both the psychologists and the art educators felt style which highlights visual experience. that once children reach the age of four or five, skill A third caveat is that visual giftedness may never in accurate graphic representation becomes the most manifest itself in drawing at all. Wolf described a reliable sign of incipient talent. Children who are able child who was visually inclined, yet who never comto render the visible world realistically on paper, or mitted himself to paper. The evidence that this child who are able to copy styles seen in adult art works, possessed an unusual visual gift was that he persispossess precocious skill in the visual arts. Such vir- tently noticed visual resemblances and he possessed tuosity is recognized by young children as a gift worth an extraordinary visual memory. He could find a toy having: the "class artist" is often the child who ca n without searching for it, because he always rememdraw in a highly realistic fashion. However, not all bered where he had last seen it. And perhaps because children who show such skill in drawing become art- of his intense aesthetic reaction to the visual world, he ists as adults; nor do all adult artists begin as child insisted that his environment be neat and ordered, virtuosi. For instance, there is some debate as to rather than haphazardly arrayed. whether Paul Klee's juvenalia is truly exceptional.

These caveats remind us not to define visual gifVincent van Gogh showed no special drawing ability tedness too narrowly. Such a gift may manifest itself until his mid-twenties. in domains other than the arts, such as the sciences, The art educators present claimed that gifted chil- where pattern recognition and fine visual discrimidren, much like adult artists, spend endless amounts nations are important, or domains such as literary of time drawing. These children turn to visual activity expression, where visual descriptions may play an as an alternative to playing with peers. They often important role. In brief, we must distinguish between explore a single graphic theme, such as line, pattern, visual gifts, which may take the child in several possithe human figure, or narrative depictions of motion ble directions, and skill as a visual artist, which may and events. build upon some of the same abilities that lead as well Some of the art educators present stressed the im- to an interest in science, engineering, architecture, portance of the experience of failure in the develop- writing, etc. ment of gifted artists. More often than not, such failDoes artistic activity decline with age? A decline in the ure is academic. Those most likely to continue in the quality and quantity of drawings has been observed visual arts seem to be those who have failed to achieve among ordinary children in the later childhood years success in some or all traditional academic areas. In (Gardner 1980; Winner 1982; Winner & Gardner contrast, those who excel in both artistic and academic 1981). Older children draw with less frequency, indomains are likely to give up the former for the latter. tensity, and involvement than their younger counterWhile the above mentioned proclivities were felt to parts. Moreover, with age, drawings become increasbe among the earliest indicators of giftedness, several ingly stereotyped and predictable, and less expressive caveats were issued. First, the signs that predict later and spontaneous. The average child never resumes artistry may differ for men and women. As Csiks- drawing with any frequency after the early elemenzentmihalyi pointed out, men who choose the arts tary school years.

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There is some evidence that a similar decline occurs in gifted children. The art teachers at the workshop cited several examples of gifted children who simply stopped drawing at about the age of 12. Pariser noted that both Toulouse-Lautrec and Klee passed through a stage during which their drawings displayed neither the spontaneity and expressive life of those produced in early childhood nor the accomplished control of those produced in late adolescence.

Authorities dispute the independent validity of this apparent decline, which may be an artifact of the current value placed on expressionist characteristics.

In a culture in which accul'acy, care in execution, and

conformity are valued, a decline may simply not be observed.

Even where a decline occurs, it is not at all clear whether it is due to schooling (formal or informal) or to inherent developmental factors. There is some evidence that schooling has a negative effect on visual giftedness. Hurwitz spoke about a child who drew exceptionally well at age three. He continued to draw with great intensity, but only outside of school. Once he began to enroll in art classes (at age nine), he began to make drawings that were much more conventional and less interesting than those he produced at home.

The Wilsons' have observed that children's most interesting drawings are often done outside of school.

Similarly, Bogardi noted that many of his art students either did not take art in high school or took art classes but did not do well.

Social factors: the role of teachers, family, and community The final issue discussed was the role of social factors in the development of giftedness in the visual arts. The central question concerned the role of teachers. Surprisingly, the artists present felt that the encouragement which they had received from their first teachers was far more important than any special instruction given by these teachers. In fact, most felt that they had received little in the way of skill cultivation from their teachers. However, all had, at some early point, been singled out by a teacher for their special aptitude in the visual arts. This "tapping" served as a critically important crystallizing experience in their self-recognition as artists.

Further evidence of the important role of early encouragement comes from the biographies of Picasso, Klee, and Toulouse-Lautrec. The first teachers of these artists functioned not only as instructors but also as supporters. This pattern is consistent with Bloom's (1982) findings that the first 68

teachers of both world-class swimmers and piano players tend to be friendly and encouraging individuals rather than outstanding practitioners. Such teachers are recalled by their pupils as empathetic and supportive rather than as particularly proficient in their field.

Factors meriting investigation One methodological issue concerns the nature of the sample of "artists" to be studied. If one wants to understand visual giftedness, the pool of artists to be studied should include recognized artists as well as those who have ability but are less well known. Fame should not be the only criterion for entrance into the subject pool; we must develop less arbitrary and superficial criteria. Also of interest are individuals who show all of the traits of visual giftedness in their youth but then go on to other careers.

A second sampling issue concerns the subfield of artists to be studied. I t would be useful to look closely at the sorts of traits possessed by other kinds of visual artists besides painters (e.g., sculptors, weavers, ceramicists, photographers). It would not be surprising to find that sculptors are less likely to show early signs of drawing ability, just as painters may be less likely to show early signs of spatial ability. On the other hand, one might find that early skill in drawing is a trait found in children who become diverse sorts of visual artists as adults. Whether drawing is the preeminent artistic skill-the cornerstone on which all other visual activities is based-was an issue of interest to most workshop members.

Participants remained divided over whether special programs were desirable for the visually gifted. Some pointed out that special programs have as much chance of succeeding with ordinary students as with the gifted. Moreover, findings which facilitate the identification and education of artistically gifted children could be used to rationalize further cutbacks in arts offerings for normal children. Research into giftedness is an inherently value-laden enterprise, and researchers should guard against the use of their fIndings as justification for a further erosion of arts programs for average children. It is also possible that art programs are more important for the average than the gifted child: the average child can benefit from instruction while the gifted child may simply "take off' on his own.

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Council Awards 23 MacArthur Foundation Fellowships in International Security THE FIRST 23 AWARDS in the Council's competition for MacArthur Foundation Fellowships-totaling 1,400,000-were made in 1985 by the Committee on International Peace and Security Studies. Seven of these awards were made to advanced graduate students and 16 to scholars who already hold the doctorate or have equivalent experience in research. A comparable number of awards is expected to be made in both 1986 and 1987.

This program is funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation as a part of the Foundation 's broad program in international security, which aims to strengthen the nation's intellectual resources to deal with these problems. The fellowships are awarded to researchers throughout the world who hold doctoral degrees in the social and behavioral sciences (including history and foreign area studies), the physical and biological sciences, or the humanities, or to graduate students in these fields who are in the final stages of their doctoral programs.

Applications are encouraged from eligible citizens or residents of any nation, and are reviewed by scholarly committees that are interdisciplinary and international in composition. Approximately 450 applications were received during 1985, the first year of the competition.

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stood in research as well as in public discourse. This does not mean detaching it from its present conceptual base involving such matters as geopolitics, deterrence, verification, weapons systems, detente, and proliferation. It does mean extending and broadening the term beyond its present base, in the realization that international security in the contemporary world has slipped away from the limited set of concepts that have been used to study it.

Developing a comprehensive understanding of factors that contribute to the initiation, maintenance, and reduction of global conflict requires the integration of knowledge and insights from diverse disciplines in the physical and biological sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, and the humanities. With this program, the Council and the MacArthur Foundation seek to encourage the expansion of the conceptual base of peace and security studies and to broaden the range of disciplines, perspectives, and methodologies that are employed in research.

MacArthur Foundation Fellowships in International Security provide financial resources for researchers and advanced doctoral students who wish to obtain training in a field new to them and then conduct interdisciplinary research which draws on their current specialty and their newly-acquired training.

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A fellowship provides at least two years of support: one year of training followed by one year of research.

The award is intended to support an integrated training and research experience: the training year is designed by the fellow with the assumption that the research in the following year will incorporate this newly acquired knowledge. Foreign area specialists may apply for an extension of the "research year" (up to an additional 12 months).

Fellowships awarded in 1985 MARK A. BOYER, a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Maryland, will study microeconomic theory, public finance, and defense economics, and then examine the budgetary and costsharing implications of a switch by NATO to a more defensive military posture.

MARIO E. CARRANZA, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Chicago in political science, from Argentina, will study technical and political aspects of nuclear nonproliferation and then analyze similarities and differences between the Brazilian and the Argentine nuclear development programs, taking particular account of the effects of economic austerity measures recommended by the International Monetary Fund and of the transition from military to civilian rule in Argentina.

ARTHUR A. CHARO, Harvard University, a chemist, will study nuclear strategy and the politics of U.S. national security policy to contribute to his research on the effectiveness of proposed defenses against such "air-breathing" strategic weapons as cruise missiles.

HELENA COBBAN, a freelance journalist who has written extensively on the Middle East, will receive training in U.S. and Soviet foreign policies in the Middle East and then will investigate the relationships among Syria, Israel, and the superpowers, focusing 70

on developments since the signing of the U.S.sponsored Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty in 1979.

MICHAEL W. DOYLE, The Johns Hopkins University, a political scientist, will study political philosophy and the geostrategic applications of game theory to anal yze how different constitutional structures and procedures contribute to differences in the conduct of a nation's security and foreign policies.

LEV DUDKIN, formerly of Moscow State University, an economist who emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1985, plans to study defense economics and Western theories about links between defense spending and economic growth. He plans to evaluate the role of defense industries in Soviet economic and political development and the "tradeoffs" faced by the Soviet Union between military and consumer industries.

LYNN RACHELE EDEN, who recently received her doctorate in sociology from the University of Michigan, will study the technical and organizational aspects of weapons research and development to enhance her research on the underlying strategic assumptions of military planners.

DIETRICH MAX FISCHER, formerly of the Department of Economics, New York University, will study the defense and foreign policies of the superpowers and-making use of his background in mathematics, game theory, and computer modeling-undertake a re-examination of game theoretic models of superpower behavior.

BARRY E. FRIDLING, Brown University, a physicist, will receive training in the political and strategic dimensions of international security and arms control and then conduct research in areas of security and arms control policy in which technology assessments are particularly important.

PETER H. GLEICK, University of California, Berkeley, an environmental scientist, will study the roles that resources and agriculture play in the international behavior of the Soviet Union and the United States; he will then compare how the superpowers might respond in the future to threats to their economic and political security posed by possible climatic changes.

DONNA U. GREGORY, University of California, Los Angeles, a scholar of English literature, plans to study the evolution of strategic doctrine in the postwar period and then conduct an analysis of the language of deterrence, focusing in particular on the principal writings of several important strategic theorists and what they may reveal about patterns of thought and perception within the strategic community.

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ceive traInIng in moral philosophy, applied ethics, develop and apply a mathematical model of conflict bioethics, and public policy, and then investigate ethi- to relations among nations. cal frameworks for analyzing strategic decisions (and J UNE CHANDRA SANTOSA, a Ph.D. candidate in the their alternatives) made during the 1950s. psychology of religion at Boston University, from InNANCY G. KANWISHER, Massachusetts Institute of donesia, will train in political science and the sociolTechnology, a cognitive psychologist, will study the ogy of religion, and then conduct research into the history and current status of superpower relations relationships among modernization, the emergence and arms control and the process of making national of religious neotraditionalism, and regional instabilsecurity policy, in preparation for research on how ity, focusing on the case of Indonesia. cognitive mechanisms affect the ways policy makers TERUMASA NAKANISHI, Mie University, an internaperceive, remember, and judge events. tional relations specialist, will receive training in asJAMES M. LINDSAY, a Ph.D. candidate in political pects of anthropology and social psychology relevant science, Yale University, plans to study congressional to the study of "rationality" in deterrence relationdecision making a nd policy analysis and conduct re- ships, and then conduct research on culturallysearch on the weapons procurement process in the conditioned differences in perception and rational United States and the role of Congress in formulating behavior, with special emphasis on differences bepolicies concerning the U.S. nuclear posture. tween Japan and other societies.

RONNIE D. LIPSCHUTZ, a Ph.D. candidate in energy MARC TRACHTENBERG, University of Pennsylvania, and resources, University of California, Berkeley, will a historian, plans to study military policy and strategy study international relations theory and political and then conduct an investigation of attempts by the economy and-making use of his specialization in nuclear powers to derive political leverage from their nuclear physics and energy policy--examine the arsenals during crises and bargaining situations. relationships among access to natural resources, national energy policies, and international conflict.

CARL B. PILCHER, University of Hawaii , an astronomer, will study defense policy and international Selection personnel relations and then conduct research into issues surThe 1985 members of the Screening Committee rounding the peaceful and military uses of technol- were: ogy In space.

Stephen P. Cohen, University of Illinois SCOTT PLOUS, Stanford University,,,, psychologist, * Michael W. Doyle, The Johns Hopkins University plans to study international security issues, focusing * Lynn Rachele Eden, Harvard University in particular on accidental and inadvertent wars, to * Dietrich Max Fischer, New York University inform his research on social biases in decision makOle Hosti, Duke University ing and the "utility of illogic and irrationality" in Cynthia S. Kaplan, University of Chicago nuclear doctrine.

James Leutze, University of North Carolina GRECORY B. POLLOCK, a Ph.D. candidate in evoluGeorge A. Lopez, Earlham College tionary biology and mathematical anthropology at the Leo Sartori, University of Nebraska University of California, Irvine, will receive training William P. Snyder, Texas A & M University in game theoretic models of cooperative behavior and Stephen W. Van Evera, Harvard University learning in mammals and then conduct research on patterns of cooperation and conflict in biological The 1985 members of the Selection Committee were: communities.

Francis X. Sutton, Social Science Research Council, ROBERT LOWELL POWELL, who recently received his chair doctorate in economics from the University of McGeorge Bundy, New York University California, Berkeley, will study deterrence and Ashton B. Carter, Harvard University theories about the causes of war and-<:ombining Richard A. Falk, Princeton University this knowledge with insights he has gained from John L. Gaddis, Ohio University modeling economic systems-<:onduct an investiga- Arnold L. Horelick, Rand/UCLA Center for the Study tion into the factors that lead combatants to establish of Soviet International Behavior limits to their behavior during war.

PAUL R. PUDAITE, a Ph.D. candidate in mathematics at the University of Illinois, will receive training in * These awardees were appointed to the commiuee after the political science and international relations and then first round of the competition.

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Robert Jervis, Columbia University Robert W. Kates, Clark University Catherine McArdle Kelleher, University of Maryland Uwe Nerlich, Science and Politics Foundation (Ebenhausen)

Robert O'Neill, International Institute for Strategic Studies (London) Condoleezza Rice, Stanford University Richard C. Rockwell and Richard H. Moss served as staff to the committees.

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Council's Board Honors Kenneth Prewitt THE COUNCIL'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS honored Kenneth Prewitt, who had been president of the Council from March 1979 through September 1985, at a reception held atJapan House in New York on December 6, 1985. At a Special Meeting of the board, held earlier that day, a resolution honoring Mr. Prewitt for his achievements during the six years of his presidency was unanimously passed. The resolution was signed by Hugh T. Patrick, Columbia University, chairman of the board; Francis X. Sutton, acting president of the Council; Charles O.Jones, University of Virginia, chairman of the Executive Committee; and Sidney Verba, Harvard University, chairman of the Committee on Problems and Policy. The text, which was read to the guests at the Japan House reception, is as follows:

THIS BOARD ALSO BELIEVES that as a direct consequence of his thoughtful creativity. careful planning, and a talent for on-the-spot improvisations , the Council's scientific stature, financial stability. and organizational infrastructure have all improved visibly during the six years of his Lenure.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that this board of directors conveys to Kenneth Prewitt its great adm iration, its deepest gratitude, and its warmest good wishes for the future.

In response both to a tribute to him delivered by Mr. Verba and to the board resolution read by Mr. Patrick, Mr. Prewitt spoke about his six years at the Council, noting that whatever he had accomplished had been possible because of the wisdom and generosity of the Council's funders, the intelligence and dedication of the Council's staff, and the judgment and time contributed to the Council by what he (following John Maynard Keynes) called "scribTHIS BOARD BELIEVES that Kenneth Prewitt brought to blers"-the board members, committee members, the presidenq of the Council, and amply demonstrated in and other productive social scientists whose ideas are office, a critical intelligence, a seriousness of purpose, bound路 essential to the life of the Council.

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Current Activities at the Council Research access Cosponsored by the Council and the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.), a conference was held November 18-19, 1985, at the Smithsonian, to consider problems surrounding the issue of "research access." This term is used to define the extent to which researchers from one country have the freedom to study topics of their choice in another country. The participants were both university-based scholars and scholars at the Smithsonian in the natural and social sciences who have had extensive experience in carrying out research in Third World countries, as well as staff members of a variety of organizations with experience in the administration of academic activities that cross national boundaries. A full report on the conference will be published in the March 1985 issue of Items.

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Robert MeG Adams, The Smithsonian Institution, cochair Kenneth Prewitl, The Rockefeller Foundation. cochair Benedict R. Anderson, Cornell University Peter Shaw AshLOn. Harvard University Bernard Barber, Columbia University Elinor Barber, Institute of International Education (New York) Richard H. Benson, The Smithsonian Institution Paul R. Brass, University of WashingLOn Mary Brown Bullock, Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China (Washington, D.C.) David Challinor, The Smithsonian Institution William K. Cummings, National Science Foundation Gretchen Gayle Ellsworth, The Smithsonian Institution Robert A. Fernea, University of Texas John D. Gerhart, Ford Foundation Allen F. Isaacman, University of Minnesota Allen H. Kassof, International Research and Exchanges Board (New York) Herbert S. Klein, Columbia University Richard D. Lambert, University of Pennsylvania Betty J. Meggers, The Smithsonian I nstiLution Rhoau!! Murphey, UniversilY of Michigan Ashis Nandy, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (New Delhi) John Paul, U.S. Department of Education Cassandra A. Pyle, Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Washington, D.C.) John E. Reinhardt, The Smithsonian Institution Walter Rosenblith, National Academy of Sciences Robert Rosenzweig, Association of American Universities (Washington, D.C.) Susanne H. Rudolph, University of Chicago Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr., University of California, Berkeley Christen M. Wemmer, The Smithsonian Institution DECEMBER

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Council Initiates New Advanced Grants Program for Research on U.S. Foreign Policy Making With support from the Ford Foundation, the Council has initiated a program of research grants that will assist both postdoctoral and senior scholars undertake comparative research on the processes of U.S. foreign policy making.

Priority in the competition will be given to proposal~ that. seek to extend research in this area beyond its conventional focus on the foreign policy and national security agencies of the U.S. federal executive and which incorporate comparisons of historical time, institutions, processes, 01' events, as well as of other countries. The grants permit-although do not require-fellows to acquire additional training (say, in a language or in a general body of literature in which they are not currently trained), insofar as it would contribute to the proposed research.

Awards will be for up to two years of full-time support and may be accepted in addition to other grants, awards, and fellowships. Research may commence as early as September 1986. There are no citizenship or residency requirements and the research need not be conducted in the United States.

For further information, write or call : Robert W. Pearson Social Science Research Council 605 Third A venue New York, New York 10158 (212) 661-0280

Access to public data The number of publicly-collected microdata files. has increased in the past several years, and their variety and richness have grown. These files contain both survey responses and data collected for administrative purposes. Many files contain information about individuals and organizations and carry with them the promise that the anonymity of responses will be protected. It is becoming increasingly difficult, however, to reconcile the public's interest in

gll~ranteeing

the absolute confidentiality of individual records with the public's equally legitimate interest in scientific inqUIry. I n order to provoke a systematic discussion (and perhaps, subsequent research) on the general problems that arise in this area, the Committee on the Survey of I ncome and Program Participation sponsored a conference on "Access to Public Data" on November 21-22, 1985, in Washington, D.C. The conference was held in cooperation with the National 73

Research Council's Committee on National Statistics under a grant provided to the Council by the National Science Foundation.

Three sets of related problems and solutions concerning the release to researchers of detailed, confidential data were discussed: (I) technical issues related to altering the data to reduce the possibility of direct or deductive disclosure while preserving the quality of the data, e.g., methods for deleting, truncating, blurring, and combining data; (2) legal and ethical issues concerning the laws that regulate the release of publicly-collected data and punish their violation, and the doctrines or theories concerning the privacy rights of individuals and organizations; and (3) bureaucratic concerns related to the current interpretation of acceptable disclosure risks, legislative intent, and the relationships among government statistical agencies and between these agencies and respondents to survey and other forms of data collection.

The conference was divided into four sessions: (1) Ethical Issues in the Access to and Linkage of PublicI y Collected Data Joseph L. Gaslwirth, George Washington University Thomas B. Jabine, Washington, D.C. (2) An Examination of Access Issues Related to Particular Data Bases

Brian Greenberg, U.S. Bureau of the Census (Survey of Income and Program Participation [SIPP]) Robert H. Mugge, National Center for Health Statistics (National Health Imerview Survey [NHIS]) Fritz Scheuren, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (Survey of Income [501])

Other participants included: Murray Aborn Lois Alexander Chester E. Bowie Ralph Bristol George Carlson Lawrence H. Cox Martin H. David Reynolds Farley David Flaherty Harvey Calper Barbara Garner Edwin D. Goldfield William B. Griffith Daniel G. Horvitz

Daniel Kasprzyk Diane Lambert David Linowes Thomas J. Plewes Alice Robbin Willard Rodgers Daniel Rosa Jeffrey Roth James Smith Miron Straf Teresa A. Sullivan Harold W. WallS

National Science Foundation U.S. Department of Health and Human Services U.S. Bureau of the Census U.S. Department of the Treasury U.S. Department of the Treasury U.S. Bureau of the Census University of Wiscon sin University of Michigan University of Western Ontario The Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C.) U.S. Bureau of the Census National Research Council George Washington University Research Triangle Institute (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) U.S. Bureau of the Census Carnegie-Mellon University University of Illinois U.S. Department of Labor University of Wisconsin University of Michigan I nternal Revenue Service National Research Council University of Michigan National Research Council University of Texas Columbia University

The committee is currently preparing a report to the National Science Foundation that will outline a program deemed necessary in order to insure continued access for secondary analysis by the social science community to the data now provided by the U.S. federal statistical community.

Discussants:

Terry Adams, University of Michigan Robert F. Boruch, Northwestern University Jerry Coffey, Office of Management and Budget (3) The Technology of Releasing "Protected" Data

Tore Dalenius, Brown University, "Privacy and Confidentiality in Censuses anrl Surveys" .

Gerhard Paass, Institute for Applied Information Technology (Sankt Augustin, Federal Republic of Germany), "Disclosure Risk and Disclosure Avoidance for Microdata"

Discus.mnt: Wray Smith, Harris-Smith Research, Inc. (Washington, D.C.) (4) What Is to Be Done? A General Discussion and the Deve!¡ opment of Recommendations Chair: Joseph A. Pechman, The Brookings Institution

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Case study methods The Committee on Development, Giftedness, and the Learning Process held a workshop in New York on September 6-8, 1985 to examine the use of case study methods for research on extraordinary performance, particularly in the domain of moral responsibility. The committee had held two previous workshops to explore the feasibility of examining moral development as a domain in which to study extraordinary or gifted performance. That work highlighted the importance of the case study as a method for studying gifted behavior, particularly for the study of individuals exemplifying extraordinary moral responsibility. The current workshop was organized to examine the case study method generally: to VOLUME

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explore its past contributions to research in the social and behavioral sciences, to consider its strengths and weaknesses, and to develop some guidelines for its use, particularly in research on moral development.

The opening day's program consisted of introductory comments on methods and concepts by Howard Gruber and Helen Weinreich-Haste, followed by a presentation, "The Case Study Method: Perspectives Gained Over My Own Life Course," by M. Brewster Smith. The second day focused on methodological issues, beginning with a presentation, "Introductory Overview of Methodological Issues," by Jennifer Platt, folluwed by five small workshop groups. The purpose of these groups was to give participants concrete case study research examples as a point of departure for discussion of the methodological questions surrounding the application of case study methods, particularly to the field of moral responsibility. The first discussions focused on the understanding of the presented projects and their genesis.

Later, discussions by the same working groups extended more widely into general methodological issues.

William Damon Sara Davis Eva Fogelman Howard Gardner Howard Gruber Anne Higgins Martin L. Hoffman Betty Jean Lifton John E. Mack Kenneth Manning Jennifer Platt Lucien Richard Edna Shapiro M. Brewster Smith Benson Snyder Doris Wallace Helen Weinreich-Haste Luitgard Wundheiler Marta Zahaykevich

Clark University New School for Social Research The Graduate Center, City

University of New York Project Zero, Harvard University University of Geneva Harvard Graduate School of Education New York University New Vork City The Cambl-idge Hospital (Cambridge, Massachusetts) MassachusetlS Institute of Technology University of Sussex University of Geneva, rapporteur Bank Street College University of California, Santa Cruz Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bank Street College University of Bath Long Island University University of Rochester

The following workshops were organized and led Lonnie R. Sherrod served as staff. by the respective participants: "The Concept of Extraordinary Moral Responsibility," Anne Colby and William Damon; "Oscar Schindler: Moral Development During the Holocaust," Luitgard Wundheiler; "Caring: Siblings, Family and Beyond," Edna Shapiro and Doris Wallace; "Moral Reasoning, Moral Respon- The 1986 SIPP panel sibility, and Institutions," Anne Higgins; "Moral ReThe Committee on the Survey of Income and Prosponsibility and Commitment to Peace Activities," gram Participation sponsored a symposium on "Plan_ Helen Weinreich-Haste. Workshop presenters spent ning for Changes in the 1986 SIPP Panel," held at the half an hour presenting materials from their project Carnegie 'Conference Center, Washington, D.C., in order to provide an introduction to the methodJune 27-28,1985. The symposium was supported by ological and conceptual issues of the work. A onea grant from the National Science Foundation. A page outline of each workshop topic was provided by summary of the proceedings will be published in the each organizer.

Winter 1985 issue of theJoumal oj Economic and Social The third day of the meeting focused on v'llues, Measurement. beginning with an "I ntroductory Overview to the The SIPP is the major new Bureau of the Census Issues of Values," by John Mack. The preceding day, panel data collection program that is intended to measfocused on methodological issues, set the stage for the ure changes in economic well-being (see the March examinaLion of values; on this final day of the meet1983 issue of Items, pages 26- 27, and the March 1984 ing, the workshop mechanism was again used, now to issue, pages 16- 17, for further details). focus on the problem of values.

The symposium included the following presentaThe participants included: tions and participants: Molly Andrews

Jeanne Bamberger

John Broughton Anne Colby

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Harvard University, rapporteur Massachusetts Institute of Technology Teachers College, Columbia University Henry Murray Research Center (Radcliffe College)

(1) The Experience of Nonresponse and Attrition in the SIPP Peter A. Morrison, chair David B. McMillen, "Nonresponse Rates in the SIPP" Daniel Kasprzyk, "Understanding the Nonresponse Rate" Chester E. Bowie, "Steps to Reduce Nonresponse" Martha Hill, Daniel C. Horvitz, and Stanley Presser, discussants

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(2) 1986 Panel Planning Harold W. Walls, chair Roger A. Herriot. "Changes in the Core Questionnaire" Arthur J. Nonon, "The Personal History Module" Chester E. Bowie, "Variable Topical Modules" Enrique Lamas, "Wealth and Year-end Roundup Modules" William P. Butz, informal remarks

Paul Siegel Raj Singh Timothy M. Smeeding James D. Smith Robert P. Strauss Teresa A. Sullivan Denton Vaughan Katherine K. Wallman

(3) Using the SIPP Denton R. Vaughan, chair Martin H. David, Franklin W. Monforl, and Alice Robbin, "Public Use Products from the SI PP: Report from Users" Martin H. David, "The ISDP/SIP? Research Center at the University of Wisconsin" Katherine K. Wallman, "Statistical Planning: Involving the Academic Resea rch Community"

Harold W. Watts Daniel H. Weinberg Kennelh 1. Wolpin

U.S. Bureau of the Census U.S. Bureau of the Census University of Utah University of Michigan Carnegie-Mellon University University of Texas U.S. Social Security Administration Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (Washington, D.C.) Columbia University U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Center for Human Resources Research (Columbus Ohio)

Richard C. Rockwell served as staff.

The participants were: Murray Aborn Barbara Bailar Carolyn Shaw Bell Chesler E. Bowie Richard V. Bu r khauser William P. Butz Constance F. Citro Robert Dalrymple Evan Davey Martin H. David Pat Doyle Harvey Galper Dean R. Gerstein Arnold Goldstein Gordon Green Jeanne E. Griffith Roger A. Herriot Martha Hill Marjory Honig Daniel G. HOI'vitz

George Jakubson Roben KaminsKY Daniel Kasprzyk Bruce Klein Helen Koo

Enrique L,mas David B. McMillen Franklin W. Monfort Peter A. Morrison Art Nonon Stanley Presser Alice Robbin Paul Ryscavage Thomas Scopp

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National Science Foundation U.S. Bureau of the Census Wellesley College U.S. Bureau of the Census Vanderbilt University U.S. Bureau of the Census National Research Council U.S. Department of Agriculture U.S. Bureau of the Census University of Wisconsin Mathematica, Inc. (Washington, D.C.) The Brookings Institution (Washington , D.C.) National Research Council U.S. Bureau of the Census U .S. Bureau of the Census Library of Congress U.S. Bureau of the Census University of Michigan Hunter College, City University of New York Research Tri~ngle Institute (Research Triangle Park, orth Carolina) Cornell University U.S. Bureau of the Census U.S. Bureau of the Census Washington, D.C. Research Tri;mgle Institute (Reseal'ch Triangle Park, North Carolina U.S. Bureau of the Census U.S. Bureau of the Census University of Wisconsin The Rand Corporation (Santa Monica, California) U.S. Bureau of the Census University of Michigan University of Wisconsin U.S. Bureau of the Census U.S. Bureau of the Census

Council Initiates New Program in Advanced German and European Studies In collaboration with the Free University of Berlin, the Council has initiated a fellowship and grams program designed to assist doctoral candidates and postdoctoral scholars to undertake research on German and European affairs. The program, funded in Germany by the Volkswagen Foundation and at the Council by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, is open to social scientists, including historians working on the period since the mid-19th century and students of comparative and international law.

Length of tenure is one or two years. The awardees are expected to reside primarily in Berlin for the duration of their fellowship or grant. Access to other research institutions in Berlin and throughout the Federal Republic of Germany will be provided through the Free University. A good command of German is required and intensive language refresher courses will be funded in certain cases.

Citizens or permanent residents of the United States are eligible to apply.

For further information, write or call: Berlin Program in German and European Studies Social Science Research Council 605 Third A venue New York, New York 10158 (2 12) 661-0280

Cognition-emotion interrelationships Two summer research training institutes, designed

by Kurt W. Fischer and Joseph J. Campos, University of Denver, in consultation with the Committee on Social and Affective Development During Childhood (1976-85), are being held to examine research methods for the study of cognition-emotion interrelationships during childhood. The first institute, funded by the ational Institute of Mental Health, VOLUME

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was held on August 18-23, 1985, in Winter Park, Colorado, cosponsored by the University of Denver and the committee. This institute and a subsequent one, of a similar nature, to be organized by Messrs.

Campos and Fischer in the summer of 1986, will formally complete the committee's program.

The program of the 1985 institute included sessions on: (l) What are the basic emotional categories, and how do we characterize them cognitively? (2) What major methodological approaches are useful in the study of cognition-emotion interrelationships?

(3) What is the role of emotion in information processing and cognitive development? (4) What roles do cognition and emotion play in social behavior and development? (5) What are the biological bases of cognition-emotion interrelationships? How can computers be used in the study of cognition and emotion?

(6) Future directions for research on cognitionemotion interrelationships. Sessions were organized to include major presentations in each of these six areas by both senior level faculty participants and junior (predoctoral and postdoctoral) participants selected on the basis of applications submitted to the directors and reviewed by both the institute faculty and Council staff.

Participants in the institute included: Karen Barrett loge Bretherton Helen Buchsbaum Richard Davidson Paul Ekman Robert N. Emde William Gaver

University of Wyoming

Colorado State University University of Colorado Medical Sciences Center (Denver) State University of New York, Purchase University of California, San Francisco University of Colorado Medical Sciences Center (Denver) University of California. San

Diego Reginald Gougis Susan Harter Martin L. Hoffman Alice M. Isen Carroll E. Izard Richard Lazarus

Hampton University University of Denver New York University University of Maryland l!niversily of Delaware

Linda Levine Marc Lewis

University of Chicago Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (Toronto) Rutgers University Medical School (New Brunswick) New School for Social Research Medical Research Council

University of California, Herkeley

Michael Lewis Carol Z. Malatesta Anthony Marcel

(Cambridge, England) Meng Zhao-Ian

Keith Oatley Kazimierz Obuchowski

Beijing University University of Sussex Polish Academy of Sciences

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Bruce Pennington Doreen Ridgeway

Jon Rolf

University of Colorado Medical Sciences Center (Denver) University of Colorado National Institute of Mental

Health Ira Roseman Margot Schofield Jonathan W. Schooler Judith Schwartz Phillip Shaver Lonnie R. Sherrod Craig Smith Ru~~ Thompson Andrew J. Tomarken Terence J. Turner Bernard Weiner Tim Wilson

New School for Social Research Macquarie University University of Washington University of Denver University of Denver Social Science Research Council Stanford University University of Nebraska University of Wisconsin CSR (Champaign, Illinois) University of California, Los Angeles University of Virginia

Selfhood in life-course perspective On October 18-19, 1985, the Subcommittee on Child Development in Life-Span Perspective of the Committee on Life-Course Perspectives sponsored a conference on selfhood, held at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford, California).

Recent research and theory in human development, sociology, social psychology, and psychiatry have brought to the fore conceptions of self that had been relatively dormant since their former prominence in the writings of Charles H. Cooley, William James, George Herbert Mead, and Harry Stack Sullivan. Thus, the purpose of the conference was to highlight issues that arise from a life-<:ourse perspective on the emergence and development of selfhood.

The strategy was to bring active contributors into communication with each other, contributors who have dealt with the phenomena of selfhood from different perspectives or who focus on different phases of the life span. A previous subcommittee conference on "Winning and Losing Over the Life Span" dealt productivly with certain aspects of the topic; from that point of reference, the present conference

represented both continuity and change in the program .

"Selfhood" rather than "the self' was employed as a synonym for personhood, referring to essential features of being a person; "self" was used only in the hyphenated contexts of ordinary speech-as selfconcept, self-understanding, self-awareness, selfesteem, self-presentation. This terminology is based on the idea that it is misleading to treat "the self" as somehow a distinguishable entity within personality 77

(which in turn is the theorist's formulation of the person). As in the familar hyphenated contexts just noted, the term "selfhood" focuses on the reflexive aspects of being a person, those that follow from characteristically human self-awareness. "Self' is substantively synonymous with person, with connotations that emphasize these reflexive aspects.

Among the aspects of selfhood that seemed to merit examination from a life-course perspective were: (I) the emergence and transformation of selfunderstanding, including the sense of identity-i.e., the cognitive aspects of selfhood; (2) the emergence and transformation of affective-evaluative responses; and (3) dispositions toward self: self-esteem, shame, guilt, and the entire gamut of emotions and emotional dispositions. A central phenomenon of selfhood that was delineated and examined in its complex ramifications is the way in which the formulations that people arrive at about themselves via interactive social processes often become actual determinants of their social participation as personswhether active or passive, coping or defensive.

A number of relevant theoretical and methodological orientations have been brought to bear upon the emergence and development of selfhood, including: psychological attribution theory, the psychodynamic treatment of competence; symbolic interactionist theory; identity theory; psychoanalytic objectrelations theory and self-theory; "hermeneutic" narrative theory; cross-cultural approaches; cognitive social psychology; sociological labelling theory; and mainstream empirical developmental research, focused primarily on early childhood and adolescence.

There has been little mutual exchange or influence across the different traditions. In particular, there has been little interchange between workers at the empirical end of the spectrum and those at the more clinical end. The conference was organized to foster communication across as many perspectives as could be fruitfully brought together in a two-day conference.

A life-course approach was considered useful in encouraging such interchange among approaches and in encouraging a specific developmental and contextual orientation where it has been lacking. A life-course approach brings to bear a recurring concern with aspects of continuity and change during the development and maintenance of self-understanding and of basic attitudes toward self and the world, especially the concern with transitions and with the impact of nonnormative life events.

The program consisted of the following sessions and presentations: 78

Alternative Integrative Formulations Kurt Fischer, "The Development of Skills Regarding the Self " Hazel Markus, "Possible Selves: The Relation Between Motivation and the Self-Concept" John Meyer. "The Social Construction of the SeW'

Discussanl : Dale Miller

Infancy and Childhood Michael Lewis, "The Rol e of the Self in Emotional Development" James Connell, "Self¡ Regulation as a Life-Span Process"

Adolescence Jack Block , "Antecedents of Self Esteem <'Ind Aspects of the Self.

Concept in Adolescence"

Richard Lerner, "On the Lore and Laws of Adolescence: The Self, Social Context, and Synthesis"

Robert Kegan, "The Child Behind the Mask: Sociopathy as Developmental Delay"

Discussant: Nancy Chodorow Cross-Cultural and Cross-National Perspectives Richard A. Shweder, "Cross-Cultural Study and the Interpretation of 'Otherness' " Janusz Reykowski, "Social Motivation and the SelP'

CLosing Discussants: Judith Dunn , M. Brewster Smith, and Orville G. Brim, Jr.

The participants included: Paul B. Baltes

Jack Block

Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education (Berlin) University of California,

Lila Braine

Barnard College

Onlille G. Brim, Jr.

Russell Sage Foundation

Nancy J. Chodorow

University of California, Santa Cruz University of Rochester Stanford University Cambridge University

Berkeley (CASBS,* 198!;"'86) (I 9S!;'"S6)

James P. Connell Sanford Dornbusch

Judith Dunn

(CASBS, 198!;"'S6) Glen H. Elder, Jr. David L. Featherman Kurt W. Fischer Per Gjerde

University University University University

of of of of

North Carolind Wisconsin Denver California,

Anita Greene

West Virginia University

Albert H. Hastorf E. Mavis Hetherington Kathryne Jacobs

Stanford University University of Virginia University of Maryland

Robert Kegan

Harvard Graduate School of Education Stanford University

Berkeley (CASBS, 198!;"'86)

Medical School

Herbert Leiderman

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M. Brewstel- Smith

Pennsylvania State University Rutgers University Medical School (New Brunswick) University of Michigan Stanford University (CASBS. 198!>-86) Simon Fraser University University of Illinois University of Michigan Polish Academy of Sciences.

(Warsaw) Stanford University University of California, Santa Cruz CASIlS University of Pennsylvania University of Chicago (CASBS. 198!>-86) ~ University of California. Santa Cruz

Lonnie R. Sherrod served as staff.

The political economy of health and disease

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The joint committees on Africa and Latin America and El Colegio de Mexico cosponsored a conference on January 8-11. 1985 in Toluca. Mexico. on the political economy of health and disease in Africa and Latin America. Thomas j. Bossert. Sarah Lawrence College. Randall M ~ Packard. Tufts University. and Ben Wisner, Rutgers University, served as coordinators. Funding for the conference was provided by the two committees and by El Colegio de Mexico, the International Development Research Centre (Ottawa), tile Carnegie Corporation of New York, and UNICEF. One of the principal aims of the conference was to promote a multidisciplinary perspective which would extend the traditional focus on the biological determinants of disease to a broader concern with the economic, social, and political contexts within which they occur. A political economy approach was chosen as a conceptual framework which would allow participants to explore the effects upon health and disease of historical processes of change related to the uneven expansion of capitalist market relations.

The participants included anthropologists, historians, political scientists, and sociologists, as well as health profession als working in diverse areas of medical health care.

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international health care and food production, and the other with community and individual responses to health and disease problems. A collaborative project involving specialists in both Africa and Latin America was seen as providing an opportunity to examine the common historical experiences of these two continents with colonialism and the wide-scale penetration of foreign capital, as well as their contrastive levels of capital development, industrialization, and market commoditization.

Four broad topics were selected as themes for papers and discussion: Nutrition and the Commoditization of Food Systems; Workplace, Health, and Disease; Women, Household, and Health; and State, Class, and the Allocation of Health Care Services. Of these topics, nutrition emerged as the most fully defined area of inquiry. Drawing on various disciplinary approaches and a wide set of empirical studies, primarily household surveys, the major papers on Africa and Latin America concluded that the transition from subsistence production to commoditymarket production, and the consequent increase in food commoditization, varies greatly according to class and region, with the greatest negative impact on nutritionallevels falling upon marginal populations with least access to land or capital and on those in the most insecure labor positions. Generalizations concerning the differences between Latin America and Africa proved to be less useful than the use of continua such as land scarcity, market penetration, or types of crops, by which different nations, or regional groupings of nations from both continents, cou ld be compared.

The second topic, on health and the workplace, revealed well-defined areas of research on both continents, and conceptual agreement on the need to move beyond narrow definitions of the relationship between health and work represented by the traditional focus on "occupational health" to a broader formulation of what was termed "the social costs of production." This concept expands the health implications of the productive process to include those involved in the reproduction of the workforce as well as workers themselves . This expanded perspective pointed up some striking differences in the industrial health literature on the two continents: while Latin American studies have focused on the urban workforce and on the impact of industrialization, with some attention to pesticide use in rural areas, studies in Africa have tended to examine the mining industry and the impact of male migration on the health of workers, their families, and their social networks.

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of large-scale development projects, has been done in Africa than in Latin America.

In the discussion of women and household health, fertility control was identified as the most advanced area of current research, in its probing of the complex social and economic factors which impinge upon the choices made. Discussants highlighted the importance of household studies for understanding women's roles as health care providers in the home, and as allocators of household resources devoted to health. The entrance of women into the market economy has had very ambiguous effects upon household health: additional cash income must be measured against the low paying jobs most open to women, the "double day" which adds paid labor to continuing household responsibilities, and the potential exposure to special health hazards to female reproductive organs. The growing number of female-headed households was identified as having particularly negative health consequences for the health of household members. Examples of the efforts of women's organizations to promote changes in health conditions and health policy suggested strategies for success and revealed the many obstacles confronted.

The discussion of state, class, and health care revealed that despite considerable recent conceptual advances in this field, its application to specific issues of health care is still underdeveloped. The state was considered both as an institution that maintains and reproduces the existing social order through cooptive and coercive means and as an arena within which class struggle and alliances may occur. Thus, while the inequitable distribution of health services was viewed as a reflection of the broader social order, state health policies were also seen as alterable, both through popular demands and through paternalistic efforts to coopt popular legitimacy for the state. Much of the empirical discussion focused on primary health care involving basic village level services with community participation. While favoring an emphasis on primary health care, participants noted the frequency with which it may fall short of its goals, failing either to provide adequate services or to achieve desired levels of community participation.

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inexpensive, and generally inadequate, health services. Experiences on both continents, even in the self-proclaimed socialist states, seemed to participants to reflect similar processes.

The participants in the conference were: Carlos Amat y Leon

University of the Pacific

Neil Andersson

Deborah Fahy Bryceson Kathryn Dewey Magdalena Echeverria

University of London Ministry of Health, Swaziland Center for Health and Social Studies (Rosario, Argentina) U nivc:rsilY of California, Lo:o.

Angeles Univel-sity of Oxford U niversiiY of California, Davis Economy of Labor Program

Jose Carlos Escudero

Autonomous Metropolitan

(Lima) Juliet Aphane Susana Belmartino

Carole Browner

(Santiago)

Shula Marks

University (Mexico City) University of Wisconsin World Health Organization (Nouakchott, Mauritania) Autonomous Metropolitan University (Mexico City) University of Zimbabwe University of London

Viviane B. Marquez

EI Colegio de Mexico

Steven Feierman

j.V. Kreysler Asa Cristina Laurell Rene Loewenson

F.M. Mburu

UNICEF (LuS<1ka)

Diana Medrano

University of the Andes

Betty Mlingi

Tanzania Food and Nutrition Center Latin American Faculty of the

(Bogota)

Eduardo Morales

Social Sciences (FLACSO), Jonathan Myers Alanagh Raikes

Santiago University of Cape Town Center for Development

Myriam Ribeiro

Research (Copenhagen) Sao Paulo School of

David Sanders Claudio Schuftan Mario Testa

Medicine University of Zimbabwe Louisiana Stale University Center for Development

Studies (CENDES), Caracas Rodrigo Villar

Center for the Support of Women and the Family

(Bogota)

The staff for the conference were Martha A. Gephart and Diana De G. Brown of the joint committees on African and Latin American studies, respectively.

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1985. The Japan-United States Friendship Commission provided support for the American participation.

The II papers presented included: "Fiscal Policies Theodore,C. Bestor, the staff associate for the Japan and in the World Economy," by Jacob Frenkel, University Kqrea programs, has resigned to accept a position in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University, and of Chicago, and Assaf Razin, Tel Aviv University; the Council is searching for a replacement.

"Monetary Policies in Interdependent Economies: A The staff associate is responsible for developing and adStrategic Approach," by Stephen Turnovsky and ministering innovative research programs related to Japan Vasco d 'Orey, both of the University of Illinois; "Efand Korea in a wide range of social scientific and humanisfects of Anticipated Real Supply Shocks and Coorditic fields of inquiry. The full-time position involves the planning of seminars, workshops, and conferences; adnated Monetary Accommodation on the Interest Rate ministering fellowship and grants competitions; preparing Differential and the Exchange Rate in a Two-Country and negotiating grant proposals; and maintaining relationPerfect Foresight Model," by Masanao Aoki, Univerships with acade mic institutions alll! ullit:l- organizations in of California, Los Angeles; "Policy Coordination sity Japan, Korea, and the United States. and Dynamic Games," by Marcus Miller and Mark Candidates for this position must have a Ph.D. in the Salmon, University of Warwick; "The Japanese Cursocial sciences or the humanities, must have carried out research on Japan, and must have a command of written rent Account Surplus: How Much is Structural?" and spoken Japanese. A knowledge of Korean studies

by Kazuo Ueda, Osaka University; "International would be desirable. The ability to relate Japanese studies to Transmission of Economic Policies: An Analysis by wider issues in one or more of the social science or the EPA World Economic Model," by Toshihisa humanistic disciplines is essential.

Toyota, Kobe University, and Masanori Hirano, Applications are sought from scholars with several years of teaching, research, and/or administrative experience beEconomic Planning Agency (Tokyo); "R & D Activiyond the doctorate, although recent recipients of the Ph.D. ties and the Technology Game: A Dynamic Model of will also be considered. Council salaries are competitive with U.S.-Japan Competition," by Ryuzo Sato, Brown those at universities, and provisions are made to enable staff University; "Strategic Aspects of Macroeconomic members to continue their professional development. The Policy Making in Interdependent Economies: The Council is seeking an applicant who can take up the position Fundamentals," by Dale Henderson, Georgetown no later than the start of the 1986-87 academic year, although an earlier starting date is preferable.

University (on leave from the Federal Reserve Applicants should send a letter and a curriculum vitae to: Board); "Strategic Aspects of Macroeconomic Policy Making in Interdependent Economies: Three Japan Program Social Science Research Council Countries and Coalitions," by Matthew Canzoneri, 605 Third A venue Federal Reserve Board; "Strategic Aspects of InterNew York, New York 10158 national Fiscal Interdependence," by Koichi Hamada, University of Tokyo; and "Some General Characteristics of Exchange-Rate Unions," by Richard C. The coordination of economic policies Marston, Wharton School, University of Pennsylbetween Japan and the United States vanIa. Concern about recent government budget deficits Other participants included Kyoji Fukao, Seikei in the United States has enhanced interest in the University; Mitsuhiro Fukao, Economic Planning domestic and international effects of fiscal policy. To Agency (Tokyo); Hajime Hori, Tohoku University; examine in comparative perspective the effects of Ryutaro Komiya, University of Tokyo; Kazuhisa budget deficits and government spending on world Kudo, University of Tsukuba; Takahiko Mutoh, interest rates, consumption, and wealth, Richard C. Tokyo Keizai University; Michihiro Ohyama, Keio MarslOll, Wharton School, University of Pennsyl- University; Ryuhei Okumura, Nagoya University; vania, and Koichi Hamada, University of Tokyo, or- Yusuke Onitsuka, Yokohama National University; ganized a binational seminar, sponsored by the Joint Kiyoshi Otani, Tokyo Keizai University; Miyako Committee on Japanese Studies and the Japan Society Suda, Senshu University; Akira Takayama, Kyoto for the Promotion of Science, as part of the U .S.- University; and Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Osaka UniverJapan Cooperative Program in the Humanities and sity.

Social Sciences. The National Bureau of Economic Kermit Schoenholtz, Yale University, and Frances Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) also served as a McCall, Columbia University, attended as observers. sponsoring organization. The seminar was held at the Theodore C. Bestor attended as staff for the Joint International House of Japan, Tokyo, March 25-27, Committee on Japanese Studies.

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Messrs. Marston and Hamada plan to publish a selection of the papers in American and Japanese journals.

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exposure and political attitudes that will be carried out by members of the Japanese team during 1985-86. A final meeting of the two teams will be held during the winter of 1986-87, at which the results of the survey will be presented and final versions Media and politics in Japan of the papers as well as papers by additional members Although by many measures Japan is among the of the Japanese team will be discussed. American most media-saturated societies, lillie attention has participation in the collaborative survey and in the been paid to the interaction of media and politics in second meeting will be partially supported by the contemporary Japan. Recognizing this as an impor- Japan- United States Friendship Commission. tant lacuna and as a significant opportunity to develop fields of inquiry comparing Japan with other advanced industrial societies, the Joint Committee on Regional seminars on Japan Japanese Studies has sponsored a project on Media The Joint Committee on Japanese Studies has reand Politics in Japan. A group of American scholars ceived support from the Japan Foundation to enable has been organized by Susan J. Pharr, University of it to sponsor Regional Seminars on Japan throughout Wisconsin, to collaborate with a team of Japanese the country.

The primary purpose of the program is specialists, headed by Hiroshi Akuto, University of to enable scholars at institutions other than the major Tokyo.

With support from the committee, the Japan Soci- Japanese studies centers to present research findings ety for the Promotion of Science, and the Nissan I nsti- and meet with their colleagues in the field.

For the 1985-86 academic year, the committee is tute, University of Oxford, a first meeting of the sponsoring the following five seminars. Scholars intwo teams of scholars was held at the Nissa" Institute on July 11-14, 1985. At the meeting, project partici- terested in participating in the activities of the repants presented papers and research plans on the gional seminars should contact the seminar coorfollowing topics: "The Media in Electoral Cam- dinators, whose names and affiliations are listed after paigning in Japan and in the U.S.: A Comparative each seminar.

Study," by Hiroshi Akuto, University of Tokyo; "The Florida Japan Seminar: John C. MaraJdo, Department of History and Philosophy, University of North Florida Press and Policy Change Within Government ProMidwest Japan Seminar: Sally A. Hastings. Department of Hiscesses in Japan," by John C. Campbell, University of tory, Northeastern Illinois University Michigan; "Media Exposure, Political Attitudes and Rocky Mountain-Southwest Japan Seminar: Anne Walthall, DeParticipation: Some Media Effects on Mass Political partment of History, University of Utah Behavior in Japan," by Scott Flanagan, Florida State Triangle East Asian Colloquium: Gail Henderson, Department of Social and Administrative Medicine, Medical School, University University; "The Media and Political Protest inJapan: of North Carolina The Anti-Bullet Train Movement," by David Groth, Washington-Southeast Regional Seminar on Japan: Philip C. Colby College; "Creating the News at NHK," by Ellis Brown, Department of History, University of North Carolina, S. Krauss, Western Washington University; "Media as Charlotte Modern Trickster: Media and the State in Advanced Industrial Societies," by Susan J. Pharr, University of Wisconsin; "Framework for Content Analysis of ElecKorean Buddhism tion News Coverage," by Hi路rohisa Suzuki, University of Tokyo; and "Japan's Mass Media System in ComTo stimulate work by Western scholars on Budparative Perspective," by D. Eleanor Westney, Massa- dhism in Korean history, and the role of Korean chusetts Institute of Technology.

Buddhism in the development of East Asian Buddhist Other participants in the meeting included Olga thought more generally, the Joint Committee on KoLinne, University of Leicester; Michio Muramatsu, rean Studies sponsored a workshop on Korean Kyoto University; Colin Seymour-Ure, University of Buddhism held at the University of California, Kent; and Arthur Stockwin, University of Oxford. Berkeley, January 11-13, 1985.

Theodore C. Bestor attended the meeting as staff for Peter H. Lee, University of Hawaii, organized the the joint committee. Morio Watanabe, University of workshop with two goals: to provide a forum for the Wisconsin, served as rapporteur. exchange of research findings, and to discuss those During the meeting, plans were laid for the col- texts of the Korean Buddhist canon which most urlaborative design and analysis of a survey of media gently require annotated translation and publication.

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The titles of the papers presented, and their authors' names and affiliations, are as follows: "Sugi's Collation NOles to the KOfYO Buddhist Canon and Their Significance for Buddhist Textual Criticism," Roben Buswell, University of California, Berkeley "Word and Wordlessness: Hyuj6ng's Approach to Buddhism," Hee-Sung Keel. Sogang University "Sample Buddhist Chapters for 'Sources of Korean Tradition'," Peter H. Lee. University of Hawaii

"Shamanism and Reljgious Syncretism in Korea," Sung-bae Park, State University of New York, Stony Brook "Through a Glass Darkly: Tos6n the Recognizant (827-898)," Michael C. Rogers, University of California. Berkeley

Mr. Lee is planning to hold a second workshop during the coming academic year, after which papers from both sessions will be edited for publication.

Recent Council Publications

Contents Between Slavery and Free Labor: The Spanish-Speaking Caribbean in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Manual Moreno Fraginals, Frank Moya Pons, and Stanley Engerman (page 83) Bringing the Slate Back In, edited by Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol (page 84) Cohort Analysis in Social Research: Be,'ond the Identifu;ation Problem, edited by William M. Mason and Stephen E. Fienberg (page 85) Depressi01l in Young People: Developmental and Clinical Per~;pectives, edited by Michael Rutter, Carroll E. Izard, and Peter B. Read (page 86) Family and Population in East Asian History, edited by Susan B. Hanley and A,路thur P. Wolf (page 86) Foreign Trade and Investment: Economic Growth in the Newly Industrializing Asian Countries, edited by Walter Galenson (page 87) International Directory of Librarians and Library Speciaiisls in the Slavic and East European Field (page 88) International Technology Transfer: ConctpL'i, Measures, and Comparisons, edited by Nathan Rosenberg and Claudio Frischtak (page 88) Law and Society in Contemporary Japan, edited by John O. Haley (page 91) Longitudinal Analysis oj Labor Market Data, edited by James J. Heckman and Burton Singer (page 91) Lu Xun and His Legacy, edited by Leo Du-fan Lee (page 92) Popular r.nUure in utte Imperial China, edited by Davin Johnson, Andrew J. Nathan, and Evelyn S. Rawski (page 92)

Property, Social Structure, and Law in the Modern Middle East, edited by Ann Elizabeth Mayer (page 93) Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations, edited

by Howard Schuman, Charlotte Steeh, and Lawrence Bobo (page 94) A Scholars' Guide to Hutlumities and Social ScUnces in the Soviet Union, edited by Blair A. Ruble and Mark H. Teeter (page 95)

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Between Slavery and Free Labor: The SpanishSpeaking Caribbean in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Manuel Moreno Fraginals, Frank Moya Pons, and Stanley Engerman. Papers from a conference held in June 1981, sponsored by the Foundation for the Advancement of the Social Sciences (Santo Domingo) and the Joint Committee on Latin American Studies. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. xvii + 294 pages. Cloth, $30.00.

The transition from slave to free labor in the Americas was one of the most fundamental changes to occur in the world economy during the 19th century. It involved large-scale reallocations of capital and massive transfers of labor power, and resulted in major transformations in labor relations and forms of agricultural production. These changes have been the subject of many individual case studies but have received little comparative treatment.

This book offers a comparative analysis of this transition in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and' Puerto Rico, contrasting their common experiences as Spanish colonies with the distinctive features of the process in each of these countries. The volume focuses on the sugar industry, the bastion of slave economies in the New World, and examines the impact of changes in sugar production upon the sources and character of plantation labor forces, the development of national social classes, and international economic relations. The contributors argue that Spain's long disinterest in developing the economic potential of its Caribbean colonies and its increasing weakness as a colonial power delayed the large-scale development of sugar plantations in its colonies until 83

the end of the 19th century, by which time sugar plantations were already in decline elsewhere in the Caribbean. Sugar production in these Spanishspeaking territories thus depended initially upon local, rather than international capital, and was linked to the emergence of a national rather than an international bourgeoisie. These features in turn created greater vulnerability to rapid and massive U.S. influence during the early years of the 20th century than occurred in either the English- or French-speaking Caribbean.

Against this backdrop, the essays in this volume examine the historical experiences of each of these territories. The sections on Cuba and Puertu Rico

focus attention on the consequences of the late abolition of slavery in these colonies for the evolution of class structures. The Dominican case examines the contrasting situation in which a highly modern industrial form of sugar production was imposed during the late 19th century, after political sovereignty had already been achieved, upon free landowning subsistence cultivators. A final section of the volume develops an economic model of transformation in the Spanish Caribbean and sets it within a wider Caribbean framework.

In addition to Manuel Moreno Fraginals, University of Havana; Frank Moya Pons , Foundation for the Advancement of the Social Sciences (Santo Dominingo); and Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester, the three editors, the contributors and their affiliations are: Patrick E. Bryan

University of the West Indies

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Sidney W. Mintz Benjamin Nistal-Moret

University of Pueno Rico Dominican Mu seum of Man and Autonomous University of Santo Domingo Academy of Sciences (Havana) Columbia University The Johns Hopkins University I nstitute of International Relations (Havana) The Johns Hopkins University U.S. National Park Service

Andres A. Ramos Mattei Rebecca J. SCOll

U lIivt:rsity of Puerto Rico University of Michigan

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Curet Jose del Castillo

Fe Iglesias Garda Herbert S. Klein Franklin W. Knight Francisco LOpez Segrera

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Bringing the State Back In, edited by Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol. Sponsored by the Committee on States and Social Structures and the joint committees on Latin Amer-

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ica and Western Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. x + 390 pages. Cloth, $42.50; paper, $14.95.

This volume is the first publication of the Committee on States and Social Structures, which was established in 1983 to foster sustained collaboration among scholars from several disciplines who share in the growing interest in states as actors and as institutional structures.

Until recently, dominant theoretical paradigms in the comparative social sciences did not highlight states as organizational structures or as potentially autonomous actors. I ndeed, the term "state" was rarely used. Current work, however, increasingly views the state as an actor which , although obviously influenced by the society surrounding it, also shapes social and political processes. There is a recognized need, therefore, to improve conceptualizations of the structures and capacities of states, to explain more adequately how states are formed and organized, and to explore in many settings how states affect societies through their interventions-or abstentions-and through their relationships with social groups.

Most of the essays collected in the volume were originally drafted for a conference entitled "Research I mplicalions of Current Theories of the State" held in Mount Kisco, New York, in February 1982. The conference was sponsored by the joint committees on Latin America and Western Europe of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council. It brought together political scientists, sociologists, economists, and historians, including both scholars who are theoretical generalists and area specialists familiar with Europe, Latin America, and East Asia.

Like the conference out of which it grew, this book aims to encourage dialogue across areas of scholarship that usually proceed in isolation from one another. Thus, each of its major parts poses a related set of analytical issues about modern states, which are explored in the context of a wide range of times and places, both contemporary and historical, and in developing and advanced industrial nations. The first part examines state strategies in newly developing countries. The second part analyzes war making and state making in early modern Europe, and discusses states in relation to the post-World War II international economy. The third part pursues new insights into how states influence political cleavages and collective action. In the final chapter, the editors bring together the questions raised by the contributors and

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suggest tentative conclusions that emerge from an overview of all the articles.

Not only does this volume bridge the concerns of area specialties delimited by time and place; it also attempts to mediate between general theoretical debates and the specific evidence that in-depth case studies and comparisons can provide about variations in state organizations, public policies, and their roots and consequences.

The volume includes the following essays: "Bringing the State Back In," by Ms. Skocpol, University of Chicago; "The State and Economic Transformation: Toward an Analysis of the Conditions Underlying Effective I ntervention ," by Mr. Rueschemeyer and Mr. Evans, both of Brown University; "The State and Taiwan 's Economic Development," by Alice H. Amsden, Harvard University; "State Structures and the Possibilities for 'Keynesian' Responses to the Creat Depression in Sweden, Britain , and the United States," by Margaret Weir, Harvard University, and Ms. Skocpol; "War Making and State Making as Organized Crime," by Charles Tilly, New School for Social Research; "Transnational Linkages and the Economic Role of the State: An Analysis of Developing and I ndustrialized Nations in the Post-World War II Period," by Mr. Evans; "Small Nations in an Open International Economy: The Converging Balance of State and Society in Switzerland and Austria," by Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University; "Working-Class Formation and the State: Nineteenth-Century England in American Perspective," by Ira Katznelson, New School for Social Research; "Hegemony and Religious Conflict: British Imperial Control and Political Cleavages in Yorubaland," by David D. Laitin, University of California, San Diego; "State Power and the Strength of Civil Society in the Southern Cone of Latin America," by Alfred Stepan, Columbia University; and "On the Road Toward a More Adequate Understanding of the State," by Mr. Evans, Mr. Rueschemeyer, and Ms. Skocpol.

Cohort Analysis in Social Research: Beyond the Identification Problem, edited by William M. Mason and Stephen E. Fienberg. A volume sponsored by the Committee on Longitudinal Research (1976-80).

New York: Springer-Verlag, 1985. viii + 400 pages, 44 figures. Cloth, $38.00.

One of the fundamental questions facing the study of social change is whether it can be appropriately understood by studying variations in the conditions

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or behavior of cohorts of individuals or by studying differences in some other conceptualization such as age or period. A "cohort" refers to a group of individuals defined by a shared point of entry into a social system; "age effects" are defined as those that are a result of individual maturation ; and "period effects" are those that result from a shared exposure to external events. The "identification problem" to which the subtitle refers arises because age, period, and cohort effects are linearly dependent and thus impossible to separate, without certain restrictions , in the generalized linear models that are frequently used in the social sciences.

The purpose of this volume is to examine the range of methodological concerns about age, period, and cohort analysis that were evident in much of the social sciences by the late 1970s.

Chapter titles and authors are: "Introduction: Beyond the Identification Problem," by William M. Mason, University of Michigan, and Stephen E. Feinberg, Carnegie- Mellon University; "The Cohort as a Concept in the Study of Social Change," by Norman B. Ryder, Princeton University; "Specification and Implementation of Age, Period, and Cohort Models,"

by Stephen E. Fienberg and William M. Mason; "Age, Period, and Cohort Effects in Demography: A Review," by John Hobcraft, London School of Economics, Jane Menken, Princeton University, and Samuel Preston, University of Pennsylvania; "Using Longitudinal Data to Estimate Age, Period, and Cohort Effects in Earnings Equations," by James]. Heckman, University of Chicago, and Richard Robb, J r., The Chicago Corporation (Chicago); "Age-PeriodCohort Analysis and the Study of Deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis," by William M. Mason and Herbert L. Smith, Indiana University; "Analysis of Age, Period, and Cohort Effects in Marital Fertility,"

by Robert A. Johnson, Carnegie-Mellon University; "Dynamic Modeling of Cohort Change: The Case of Political Partisanship," by Cregory B. Markus, University of Michigan; "Generations, Cohorts, and Conformity," by Otis Dudley Duncan , University of California, Santa Rarhara; "Simultaneous Analysis of Longitudinal Data from Several Cohorts," by Karl C. Joreskog and Dag Sorbom, both of the University of U ppsala; "Statistics and the Scientific Method," by David A. Freed man, University of California, Berkeley; "Reply to Freedman," by Karl C. Joreskog and Dag Sorbom; "Comments on and Reactions to Freedman, 'Statistics and the Scientific Method'," by Stephen E. Fienberg; and "A Rejoinder to Fienberg's Comments," by David A. Freedman.

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Depression in Young People: Developmental and Clinical Perspectives, edited by Michael Rutter, Carroll E. Izard, and Peter B. Read. Sponsored by the Committee on Social and Affective Development During Childhood (1976-85). New York: Guilford Press, 1986. xvi + 550 pages. Cloth, $37.50.

The conventional view of childhood as an untroubled .time has until recently been largely unchallenged by theory and research. There is now a growing awareness that many children and adolescents suffer from socially-handicapping depressive disorclers of a severity that amounts to mental illness.

Garbielle A. Carlson Dante Cicchetti Leon Cytryn Judy Dunn Leon Eisenberg Robert N. Emde Judy Garber Norman Garmezy Elliot S. Gershon William V. Good T. O. Harris Robert J. Harmon Carroll E. lza rd Maria Kovacs Helen Block Lewis Donald H. McKnew

State University of New York, Stony Brook Harvard University National Institute of Mental Health University of Cambridge Harvard University University of Colorado Vanderbilt University University of Minnesota National Institute of Menlal Health University of Colorado Bedford College (London) U niversily of Colorado University of Delaware University of Pittsburgh Yale University National Institute of Memal Health State University of New York, Stony Brook University of Pennsylvania Western Psychiatric Institut(:' and Clinic (Pittsburgh) Social Science Research Council University of London Boston College Medical College of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania Columbia University State University of New York, Stony Brook Amherst H. Wilder Foundation (St. Paul, Minnesota) National Institute of Mental Health

This problem has received considerable attention from researchers in both developmental and clinical areas, with each field generating its own literature on the topic. The goal of this volume is to integrate, for the first time, the contributions of investigators in John M. Neale both fields, in order to provide a state-of-the-art review of what is known about depression in young Christopher Peterson Joaquim Puig-Antich people.

In the introductory chapter to the volume, editor Peter B. Read Michael Rutter comprehensively surveys the developmental evidence to show that depressive disorders Michael Rutter change in form and frequency as young people enter Karen Schneider-Rosen adolescence . . He also describes the clinical distinc- Gail M. Schwartz tions between "normal" distress and those psy- Martin E. P. Seligman chopathological depressive disorders involving bio- David Shaffer logical and cognitive changes as well as alterations Sheldon Weintraub of mood. In the next section of the volume, contributors examine theoretical approaches to the devel- Ken C. Winters opment of depression in social, cognitive, and biological terms, comparing childhood depression to some Carolyn Zahn- Waxler models of adult depression.

The following section of papers evaluates the risk factor of parental depression, both as a genetic influence and as an environmental reality that alters pat- Family and Population in East Asian History, edited terns of family interaction. A subsequent section by Susan B. Hanley and Arthur P. Wolf. Sponsored covers other risk factors for children, including pa- by the joint committees on Chinese and Japanese rental loss, stressful life events, and biological fea- studies. Stanford University Press. 1985. xiv + 360 tures. Two chapters on measurement constitute a pages. Cloth, $45.00. separate section, with discussion of how developmental changes. in children's understanding deThe 13 papers in this volume represent a concerted termine aspects of the clinical interview. A final sec- effort to place the historical demography of East Asia tion, based on the clinical-developmental approach on a firm quantitative basis. They utilize a wide range that characterizes "developmental psychopathology," of Chinese and Japanese documentary sources and suggests areas of research that are needed to further raise substantive questions about both family history understanding of depression in young people. and population change.

The contributors to the volume are: In their introduction, the editors argue that, most fundamentally, the papers reveal that the contrasts William R. Beardslee Massachusetts General between Western and Eastern European family sysHospital (Boston) A. Bifulco Bedford College (London) tems, often seen as a crucial demographic demar G. W. Brown Bedford College (London) cation, are comparable to those between China and 86

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Japan-two societies which are often assumed to be demographically similar. Just as the grand family systems (the zadruga or the dvoT) of Eastern Europe differ radically in their demographic consequences from the stem family systems of Western Europe, so too does the Chinese grand family differ from Japan's stem family. The volume's papers demonstrate that the Japanese and Chinese systems have produced differences in marriage and fertility patterns that parallel the Western and Eastern European cases and suggest broader comparisons in family history and population change.

Contributions to the volume include an introduction by Arthur P. Wolf, Stanford University, and Susan B. Hanley, University of Washington; "The Demography of Two Chinese Clans in Hsaio-shan, Chekiang, 1650-1850," by Ts'ui-jung Liu, Academia Sinica (Taipei); "Samurai Income and Demographic Change: The Genealogies of Tokugawa Bannermen," by Kozo Yamamura, University of Washington; "The Rich Get Children: Segmentation, Stratification, and Population in Three Chekiang Lineages, 1550-1850," by Stevan Harrell, University of Washington; "Rural Migration and Fertility in Tokugawa Japan: The Village of Nishijo, 1773-1868," by Akira Hayami, Keio University; "Urban Migration and Fertility in Tokugawa Japan: The City of Takayama, 1773-1871," by VOichiro Sasaki, Chiba University; "Fertility in Prerevolutionary Rural China," by Arthur P. Wolf, Stanford University; "Fertility in Rural China: A Reconfirmation of the Barclay Reassessment," by Ansley J. Coale, Princeton University; "Family and Fertility in Four Tokugawa Villages," by Susan B. Hanley, University of Washington; "Fertility and Mortality in an Outcaste Village in Japan, 17501869," by Dana Morris, Berkeley, California, and Thomas C. Smith, University of California, Berkeley; "Transformation of Commoner Households in Tennoji-mura, 1757-1858," by Robert]. Smith, Cornell University; "Marriage Among the Taiwanese of Pre-1945 Taipei," by Sophie Sa, Matsushita Foundation (Secaucus, New Jersey); and "On the Causes and Dcmographic Consequences of Uxorilocal Marriage in China," by Burton Pasternak, Hunter College, City University of New York.

The papers are based on those originally presented at a conference held at Wad ham College (Oxford) in August 1978. The conference was sponsored by the Joint Committee on Japanese Studies, the Joint Committee on Contemporary China (1959-81), and the American Council of Learned Societies' Committee on Studies of Chinese Civilization (1963-81); in 1981, the two China committees were merged into the DECEMBER

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Joint Committee on Chinese Studies, which, together with the Joint Committee on Japanese Studies, sponsored the publication of this volume.

Foreign Trade and Investment: Economic Growth in the Newly Industrializing Asian Countries, edited

by Walter Galenson. Sponsored by the Joint Committee on American-Chinese (Taiwan) Cooperation in the Humanities and Social Sciences (1966-81).

Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. xi + 390 pages. Cloth, $30.00.

During the past two decades, four countriesTaiwan, South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Konghave registered the most rapid economic gains among the world's developing nations. In this study, a distinguished group of Asian and American economists examine the development strategies-particularly the emphasis on foreign trade and investmentswhich have allowed these countries to far outstrip their neighbors. The result is a fresh and clearly written perspective that will interest scholars of economic development and of contemporary Asia; business people; and citizens of less-developed countries who are now struggling to achieve a modicum of economic growth.

One factor, it is argued, has been particularly crucial in allowing these four countries to become showpieces of successful economic development. These nations have all maintained open economies and the relative freedom to import and export. Linked to this policy is their receptivity to foreign capital. Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong have consistently welcomed foreign firms and permitted them to operate with few restraints. They have thus avoided a major obstacle to economic growth in other developing countries-the fear of multinational corporations.

Equally crucial to the economic progress of these countries, the book demonstrates, is their relationship with the United States. Taiwan and South Korea in particular have benefited by adopting development strategies recommended by the United States. The sizable U.S. market for their goods has also provided a critical economic impetus and offers further justification for the open trade policy which has propelled their swift economic climb.

The book is dedicated to Simon Kuznets, who died earlier this year (see the September 1985 issue of Items, pages 49-50).

Walter Galenson, the editor, is Jacob Gould 87

Schurman professor of economics at Cornell University. The contributors and their papers are: Bela Balassa, The World Bank (Washington, D.C.) "The Role of Foreign Trade in the Economic Development of Korea" Gary S. Fields. Cornell University "Industrialization and Employment in Hong Kong, Korea.

Singapore, and Taiwan" Bohn Young Koo, Korea Development Institute (Seoul) "The Role of Direct Foreign Investment in Korea's Recent Economic Growth" Lawrence B. Krause, The Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C.)

" Introduction" Shirley W.Y. Kuo, The Central Bank of China (Taipei), and John C.E. Fei. Yale University "Causes and Roles of Export Expansion in the Republic of China" Tzong-bi~u Lin and Victor Mok, The Chinese University of Hong

Studies. Previous editions focused more upon orth American library specialists. The joint Committee on Soviet Studies anticipates further editions updating existing information and expanding the directory's scope to incorporate data on librarians and library specialists from countries not currently included in the guide.

The 1985-1986 membership of the Subcommittee on Bibliography, Information Retrieval, and Documentation (BIRD) of the joint Committee on Soviet Studies is Edward L. Keenan, Harvard University, chair; Marianna Tax Choldin, University of Illinois; Th,,,,,, Gustafson, Georgetown University; Edward Kasinec, New York Public Library; David Kraus, Library of Congress; and Hugh Olmsted, Harvard University. Blair A. Ruble serves as staff.

Kong

"Trade, Foreign Investment, and Development in Hong Kong" Gustav Ranis, Yale University, and Chi Shive, National Taiwan University "Direct Foreign Investment in Taiwan's Development" S.C. Tsiang, Cornell University, and Rong-I Wu, National Chung Hsing University "Foreign Trade and Investment as Boosters for Take-off: The Experiences of the Four Asian Newly Industrializing Countries" Chia Sio\\' Yue, National University of Singapore "The Role of Foreign Trade and J nvestment in the Development of Singapore"

International Directory of Librarians and Library Specialists in the Slavic and East European Field.

Prepared under the auspices of the Subcommittee on Bibliography, Information Retrieval, and Documentation of the joint Committee on Soviet Studies.

New York: Social Science Research Council, November 1985. 68 pages. Paper, free. Available from the Soviet program at the Council.

The librarians and library specialists listed in this directory represent the leading Slavic and East European collections of Australia, Canada, China. Europe, japan, and the United States. The directory contains the names, titles, addresses, and phone numbers of over 450 library personnel. It was prepared by Robert Karlowich of the Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, New York) and Eliott Isaac and Edward Kasinec of the :-lew York Public Library.

The directory is the fourth publication of its type in a series initiated more than a decade ago by the Bibliographic and Documentation Committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic 88

International Technology Transfer: Concepts, Measures, and Comparisons, edited by Nathan Rosenberg and Claudio Frischtak. Based on a conference sponsored by the Subcommittee on Science and Technology Indicators of the Committee on Social Indicators. New York: Praeger, 1985. 329 pages: 7 figures; 34 tables. Cloth, $43.95.

In the last two decades, much has been written on the nature and impact of the international transfer of technology, particularly transfers to developing countries. Some years ago, it was believed that the opportunities offered by the availability of more advanced technologies would greatly simplify and accelerate the process of economic growth in developing countries. After all, an invention need be invented only once and may be acquired by others through purchase, license, or some other form of transfer.

Received theory conceived technology as information that was necessary to design and produce a given good. This information was assumed to be public in nature: freely available and costlessly reproduceable; existing in an explicit form; and codified in designs, operating' manuals, and so on.

It is now broadly accepted that these sanguine expectations and assumptions were naive and that an alternative conceptualization of technology is necessary. Technology transfer, we are now aware, is a much more complicated process. Not only are such transfers very costly, but their ultimate success is far more contingent on a larger number of technical and economic factors than was previously realized.

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as well as numerous aspects of the institutional setting in the recipient country. Many chapters in this volume argue that technology is more usefully conceptualized as knowledge retained by individual teams of specialized personnel. This knowledge, resulting from their accumulated experience in design, production, and investment activities, is mostly tacit and rarely codified. It is acquired in problem-solving and trouble-shooting activities within a firm, and remains there in a substantially uncodified state. This accumulated knowledge is acquired through a timeconsuming and expensive process of learning; the technologies that are of use to a firm are only a limited subset of all technologies that are available at any time.

Keith Pavitt, for example, in Chapter I of the volume, conceptualizes technology as a highly differentiated range of techniques and of related knowledge that cannot "easily be derived or reduced to first scientific principles; [itl depend[sl therefore on a range of acquired skills, practices and subtheories (or rules of thumb)". These reflect cumulative processes, where time enters in an essential way. As Jack Baranson and Robin Roark state in Chapter 2, "the tens of thousands of elements required for a single industrial product, such as a high-speed diesel engine, are meticulously accumulated over time through research and development, through trial and error in equipment and factory methods, and in the detailed specifications and procedures developed through prolonged experiences."

What implications does such an alternative conceptualization hold for the transfer of technology?

Insofar as technology is conceived as firm-specific information concerning the characteristics and performan ce properties of production processes and product designs, and to the extent that it is tacit and cumulative in nature, the transfer of technology is not as easy as the purchase of a capital good or the acquisition of its blueprint. It involves positive and significant resource costs, reflecting the difficult task of replicating knowledge across the boundaries of firms and nations. Recipients are normally obliged to devole subslantial resources to assimi l;ttc. adapt. and

improve upon the original technology. Moreover, the geographical transfer of productive forms of physical capital may be of little use unless the appropriate human resources are simu ltaneously available in situ to provide for the operation, maintenance, repair, and upgrading of the facilities, as well as to interact and learn from foreign engineers and specialists.

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knowledge include "imperfect understanding, incomplete availability, imperfect imitability, tacitness, etc." its successful use tends to be dependent on firms and countries developing their own technological capabilities. The acquisition of such capabilities is a nontrivial matter. Baranson and Roark suggest that "none of these capabilities will accrue as a matter of course to passive recipients of technology; each requires an increasing level of technological effort."

Larry E. Westphal, Linsu Kim, and Carl J. Dahlman report in Chapter 6 substantial empirical evidence that "adaptations have been observed to take place through changes that stretch the capacity of existing plants, break bottlenecks in particular processes, improve the use of by-products, adjust to new input sources, alter the product mix, and introduce a wide variety of incremental improvements in processes and product designs."

The circumstances under which technologies are efficiently assimilated tend to be typified by periods of intensive search by the potential buyers, protracted negotiations, aggressive learning tactics, and a strategy focused on adaptation and upgrading of the original design so as to improve its performance characteristics. One sees this paltern of activity on the part of individual firms in Japan, for example, where Terutomo Ozawa notes in Chapter 7 that "although Japan's postwar technological miracle would have been impossible had here been no imports of advanced industrial arts from the West, Japanese industry itself exerted a great deal of effort to adapt and assimilate imported technologies. This assimilative effort initially stimulated adaptive R&D, which later turned more original in orientation."

In addition, the experiences of the Japanese and other successful adapters attest to the importance of the social environment. In particular, comprehensive educational systems have played major roles in the assimilation of industrial knowledge. The critical importance of education in the history of countries that have been successful both in generating and absorbing innovations is now recognized by most analysts.

Korea provides expecially instructive testimony on the importance of the human resource factor in a country's ability effectively to assimilate and adapt foreign technologies. In a cross-country comparison among Argentina, Brazil, India, Korea, and Mexico it was clear that "what stands out about the Korean education pattern are the high proportion of postsecondary students abroad, the high secondary enrollment rate, and the high percentage of engineering students among postsecondary students. Even more remarkable is the rapid growth in the number 89

of scientists and engineers, such that by the late 1970s South Korea apparently had by far the highest percentage of scientists and engineers in the populations of the five countries."

In exploring the less well-known case of the transfer of textile technology to some of the more industrialized African countries, Lynn K. Mytelka, in Chapter 4, unveils other considerations which relate to the important phenomenon of "non learning," even in the presence of a relatively favorable human and material environment. I ncreases in operating efficiency over time are hardly an automatic consequence of participation in production. Mytelka argues that learning in production and improvements in produc-

tional Trade and Industry has at times used its control over technology imports "to promote the use of advanced technology by Japanese firms to improve the bargaining position of Japanese firms dealing with foreign suppliers, to facilitate the diffusion of new technology within Japan, and to shape Japanese industrial structure." Nevertheless, it has not always been successful, and its role has changed markedly over the last three decades toward a more subtle and less openly interventionist one. If it is true, as Sanjaya Lall points out in the case of India in Chapter 3, that "a low reliance on imports of technology in the process of industrialization clearly contributes to the buildup of a diverse and deep technological capability," it seems to be equally correct that protection of both learning and production, if implemented at all costs, brings with it large static and dynamic inefficiencies in the form of outdated technologies, uncompetitive industries, and fragmented markets.

Not enough is known about the relation between technological policy and technological development, given the complex nature of the interactions between policy-induced decisions and the environment where they are implemented, and in light of the extended period during which those actions unfold and results appear. In spite of the recent progress made in understanding those connections, much still remains to be uncovered concerning appropriate policies to foster the international transmission of knowledge and its effective assimilation by recipient countries.

This volume constitutes a significant step in this large intellectual enterprise.

tivity appear to be triggered "when persons in key decision-making positions within an enterprise are responsive to their domestic environment, are sufficiently aware of technical possibilities, and are placed in a situation in which there are pressures to reduce production costs." When, on the other hand, there are market imperfections and structural rigidities in developing countries and managers of firms find themselves in a less competitive environment, they tend to commit fewer resources to the search for superior technological alternatives. Further, the high search costs in looking outside the firm's "domain of competence" or, alternatively, the increased variance of the results associated with unproven techniques, may also block the adoption of more economical technologies or the modification of the ones in use to suit local conditions better. In the latter case, managers trade reduced profits for reduced risks, a problem not uncommon for multinational firms entering an In addition to an introductory chapter by Messrs. unfamiliar landscape.

Rosenberg and Frischtak, from which this summary is Technology is transferred through such mechanisms as direct foreign investment, licensing, con- adapted, the volume includes the following chapters: sultancy, technical agreements, and turnkey plant Keith Pavitt, University of Sussex "Technology Transfer Among the Industrially Advanced and project contracts, as well as trade in capital goods Countries: An Overview" such as machinery, tools, instruments, and transJack Baranson. Illinois Institute of Technology, and Robin Roark, portation equipment. Yet many of the modes of Developing World Industry and Technology, Inc. (Washingtransfer are hard to detect, let alone measure, given ton, D.C.) "Trends in North-South Transfer of High Technology" the uncodified nature of technology. Account should Sanjaya Lall, World Bank (Washington, D.C.) be taken, for example, of the flows of public techno"Trade in Techllulogy by a Slowly Industrializing Country: logical information as well as of reverse engineering, India" the transfer of person- or institution-embodied Lynn K. Mytelka, CarleLOn University know-how, visits to production facilities, and so on.

"Stimulating Effective Technology Transfer: The Case of TexMoreover, the relative importance of each of these tiles in Africa" mechanisms and the role of state agencies change Jorge M. Katz, Buenos Aires "Domeslic Technological Innovalions and Dynamic Compara. across nations and over time. Farok J. Contractor in live Advantages: Further Reflections on a Comparalive Chapter 6 discusses in detail the circumstances under Case-Sludy Program" which firms would prefer licensing as opposed (or in Larry E. Weslphal, World Bank (Washington, D.C.). Linsu Kim. addition) to direct foreign investment. Leonard H. Korea Advanced Inslitule of Science and Technology (Seoul). and Carl J. Dahlman, World Bank Lynn notes that the Japanese Ministry of Interna90

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"Renections on the Republic of Korea's Acquisition of Technological Capability" Terutomo Ozawa, Colorado State University "Macroeconomic Factors Affecting Japan's Inflows and Outflows: The Postwar Experience" Leonard H. Lynn, Carnegie-Mellon University "Technology Transfer to J apa n : What We Know , What We Need to Know, and What We Know That May Not Be So" Farok J. Contractor, Rutgers University "Licensing Versus Foreign Direct Investment in U.S. Corporate Strategy: An Analysis of Aggregate U.S. Data"

tion of the Committee on the. Methodology of Longitudinal Research (1976-1980). New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xv + 410 pages. Cloth $49.50.

The essays in this volume assess the strengths and limits of longitudinal survey data; that is, data obtained from the same individuals at two or more time periods. Although the chapters focus on labor market phenomena, the methodological conclusions of the volume apply more generally to longitudinal data collected to study other phenomena as well. Chapters Law and Society in Contemporary Japan, special by Chamberlain, MaCurdy, and Heckman and Robb issue of Law in japan: An Annual (Volume 17, 1984), consider the tradeoffs in assumptions that are reedited by John O. Haley. Papers from a conference quired in different research designs. Chapters by sponsored by the Joint Commiteee on Japanese Heckman and Singer, Hoem, and Andersen consider Studies. Published by the Japanese American Society the analytical problems that are especially for Legal Studies, c/o Asian Law Program, School of troublesome in longitudinal designs, e .g., measureLaw, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. ment error, truncation, and selection bias. Essays by Frydman and Singer, Heckman and Singer, 205 pages. Paper, $12.50.

Heckman and Robb, and Andersen examine how The papers in this volume focus on a basic attri- robust estimators are to departures from the special bute of the Japanese legal system in its social context: assumptions that are required in analyses of lonthe function and limits of law as an instrument for gitudinal data. Similarly, other chapters identify the social ordering and the weakness of legal versus social minimal set of assumptions required to obtain interpretable models. Chapters by MaCurdy, Tuma, and controls in contemporary Japan.

The eight papers in this special issue of Law in Mare and Winship present empirical examples of Japan include: "Introduction: Legal vs. Social Con- longitudinal analyses.

Following an introduction by the editors, the voltrols," by John O. Haley, University of Washington; "Japan's Constitutional System and Its Judicial In- ume contains the following chapters: "Heterogeneity, terpretation," by Lawrence W. Beer, Lafayette Col- Omitted Variable Bias, and Duration Dependence," lege; "Discretionary Authority of Public Prosecutors by Gary Chamberlain, University of Wisconsin; "Soin Japan," by B.]. George,Jr., New York Law School; cial Science Duration Analysis," by James J. "Marital Dissolution in Japan: Legal Obstacles and Heckman, University of Chicago, and Burton Singer, Their Impact," by Taimie L. Bryant, University of Vale University; "Interpreting Empirical Models of California, Los Angeles; "The Use and Non-Use of Labor Supply in an Intertemporal Framework with Contract Law in Japan: A Preliminary Study," by Uncertainty," by Thomas E. MaCurdy, Stanford UniWhitmore Gray, University of Michigan; "Adminis- versity; "A lternative Methods for Evaluating the Imtrative Guidance in the Courts; A Case Study in Doc- pact of Interventions," by James J. Heckman and trinal Adaptation," by Michael K. Young, Columbia Richard Robb, Jr. , The Chicago Corporation University; "Declining Public Ownership of Japanese (Chicago); "Weighting, Misclassification, and Other Indu stry: A Case of Regulatory Failure," by Lawrence Issues in the Analysis of Survey Samples of Life HisRepeta, Tokyo; and "Instrumental Violence and So- tories," by Jan M. Hoem, University of Stockholm; cial Change: The Buraku Liberation League and the "Statistical Models for Longitudinal Labor Market Tactic of 'Denunciation Struggle'," by Frank K. Data Based on Counting Processes," by Per Kragh Upham, Boston College.

Andersen, Danish Medical and Social Science ReThe papers were originally presented at a confer- search Councils (Copenhagen); "Assessing Qualitative ence held at Lake Wilderness , Washington, in August Features of Longitudinal Data ," by Halina Frydman, New York University, and Burton Singer; "Effects of 1983.

Labor Market Structure on Job Shift Patterns," by Nancy Brandon Tuma, Stanford University; "School Longitudinal Analysis of Labor Market Data, edited Enrollment, Military Enlistment, and the Transition

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ployment," by Robert D. Mare, University of Wisconsin, and Christopher Winship, Northwestern University.

Lu Xun and His Legacy, edited by Leo Ou-fan Lee. Papers from a 198 I conference sponsored by the Joint Committee on Contemporary China (1959--81).

Berkeley, California: University of California Press 1985. xix + 324 pages. Cloth, $32.50. '

Lu Xun [Lu Hsiinl (1881-1936) is the preeiminent Chinese author, thinker, intellectual leader, and literary personage of the 20th century. No single figure III Western countries is comparable as a national cultural hero. His works, numbering more than 20 volumes, have been canonized; his posthumous fame is second only to that of Mao Zedong. Yet Lu Xun is little known outside Asia, and for more than three decades his reputation has been subjected to ideological control and manipulation in the People's Republic of China.

The year 198 I marked the centennial of Lu Xun's birth. Among the worldwide commemorative activities was a scholarly conference held at the Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Crove, California, from August 23 to 28. More than 30 scholars and writers from Europe, Israel , Japan , the United States, and the People's Republic of China attended, and 17 papers were presented. This volume represents a major part of the intellectual harvest of that conference.

The conference was sponsored by the Joint Committee on Contemporary China, with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation.

The conference was honored by the presence of four eminent delegates from the People's Republic of Chllla: two famous writers, Xiao Jun and Wu Zuxiang, and two leading Lu Xun scholars from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, Pu Liangpei and Ce Baoquan. The former presented a paper on the current state of Lu Xun scholarship in Chllla, and the latter gave a long survey of names and titles connected with Lu Xun translation and research all over the world. (An English version of Ce's paper, tilled "Lu Xun and World Literature," was published in Social Sciences in Chi,Ul, 3:62-90, 1981.)

The contributors and their papers are: Marston Anderson, University of Tennessee "The Morality of Form : Lu Xun and the Modern Chinese Short Story" Irene Eber, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem "The Reception of Lu Xun in Europe and America: The Politics of Popularization and Scholarship"

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Howard Goldblatt, San Francisco State University "Lu Xun and Patlerns of Literary Sponsorship" Merle Goldman, Boston University "The Political Use of Lu Xun in the Cullura) Revolution and After" David Holm, Macquarie University "Lu Xun in the Period of 1936-1949: The Making of a Chinese Gorki" Theodore D. Huters , University of Minnesota "Hu Feng and the Critical Legacy of Lu Xun" Leo Ou-fan Lee , University of Chicago "Tradition and Modernity in the Writings of Lu Xun" Lin Yu-shellg, University of Wisco nsin "The Morality of Mind and ImmOl路a lity of Politics: Reflections 011 Lu Xun, the Intellectual" Maruy<tm;J Noboru, Tokyo University "Lu Xun in Japan" David E. Pollard, University of London "Lu Xun 's lawen" John C. Y. Wang, Stanford University "Lu Xun as a Scholar of TI-aditional Chinese Literature"

Popular Culture in Late Imperial China, edited by David Johnson, Andrew J. Nathan, and Evelyn S. Rawski. Studies on China 4. Sponsored by the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1985. xvii + 449 pages.

Cloth, $40.00.

The essays in this volume consider how ideas values, beliefs , and attitudes were formed and transformed in late imperial Chinese society. WorkIng from plays, novels, scriptures, almanacs, and other widely circulated and influential texts, the authors explore the movement of ideas and doctrines from one social group to another and the ways they were modified for presentation to different audiences.

The work presented here marks a first step toward the systematic study of popular culture as an integral part of Chinese history. The volume has been designed to highlight topics of special importance for future research: (I) the relationship between the audience of a work and its content; (2) attempts by the authorities to impose orthodox values on the pOPlllace; (3) popular drama and its social contextand (4) the content and spread of popular religiou~ teachings.

The January 198 I conference on which the volume is based was sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies' Committee on Studies of Chinese Civilization, one of the two predecessor committees of the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies.

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broader in scope than that of the nation-state legal systems now prominent in the political landscape.

Mindful of this, scholars examining property draw on a variety of disciplines and are concerned with a continuum of relationships at the local, regional, and national and international levels existing in the multiple contexts of customary, religious, and national systems of law. In analyzing the relation between Judith A. Berling. Indiana University property rights and social structure, they consider the "Religion and Popular Culture: The Management of Moral legitimate and illegitimate uses of power by individuCapital in The Romance of the Three Teachings" als and groups within this continuum of relationships, James Hayes, Hong Kong Civil Service in order to understand actual patterns and directions "Specialists and Written Materials in the Village World" Roben E. Hegel, Washington University of change.

"Distinguishing Levels of Audiences for Ming-Ch'ing VerBy virtue of the variety of relationships found to nacular Literature" exist between people and "things" in the Middle East, David Johnson, University of California, Berkeley there are a number of legal systems that sometimes "Communication, Class, and Consciousness in Late Imperial intermingle and are sometimes counterpoised. As a China" result, contributors to this volume often draw attenLeo Ou-fan Lee, University of Chicago, and Andrew j. Nathan, tion to the distinctions between customary and statute Columbia University "The Beginnings of Mass Culture: Journalism and Fiction in law with respect to property, or between traditional the Late Ch'ing and Beyond" and more recent concepts of property as they are Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania perceived by the folk, by politicians, and by partici"Language and Ideology in the Written Popularizations of the pants in political movements and as they affect or are Sacred Edict" Susan Naquin, University of Pennsylvania affected by enduring structures.

"The Transformation of White Lotus Sectarianism in Late 1m路 Distinctions between different modes of dispute perial China" resolution have been recognized. Disputes about Daniel L. Overmyer, University of British Columbia water distribution, landholdings, or housing may be "Values in Chinese Sectarian Literature: Ming and Ch'ing through either formal or informal channels. settled Pao路chilan" Behavioral studies of property and property rights Evelyn S. Rawski, University of Pittsburgh "Economic and Social Foundations of Late Imperial Culture" that pay attention to what people actually do, irreand "Concluding Perspectives: Problems and Prospects" spective of what the law says and how it operates, give Tanaka Issei, Tokyo University emphasis to actual use patterns of dispute resolution.

"The Social and Historical Context of Ming路Ch'ing Local The relation between law and social structure in the Drama" Barbara E. Ward , Newnham College (Cambridge) and Chinese Middle East has been shaped not only by historical, social, and cultural features of the various societies in University of Hong Kong "Regional Operas and Their Audiences: Evidence from Hong this part of the world but also by foreign intervention.

Kong" Because the Middle Eastern nations are young naJames L. Watson, University of Pittsburgh "Standardizing the Gods: The Promotion of T'ien Hou ('Em路 tions, the history of state and foreign intervention press of Heaven') Along the South China Coast, 960--1960" affecting property and property rights is particularly salient. Specific attention is increasingly being paid to state ownership and control of property, to technology transfer, to the effects of demographic policies, Property, Social Structure, and Law in the Modern and to policies of oil regulation and oil revenue-all ol"which involve analysis of external as well as internal Middle East, edited by Ann Elizabeth Mayer. A publication of the Subcommittee on Law and Social actors.

Middle Eastern countries have inherited from the Structure of the Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East. Albany, New York: State University of prevailing colonial context a law primarily shaped by :-Jew York Press, 1985. xv + 274 pages. Cloth, $34.50; the European legal systems. With colonial law there emerged a model of foreign intervention into legal paper, $14.95. procedure as an instrument of political management.

This model is still present in contemporary Middle The papers in this volume attempt to analyze the Eastern nations, and is still used in order to mold relationships among property, law, and social property rights to serve state interests. Governance is structure in the Middle East. The subject is older and

ume was Origins oj Chinese Civiliwtion, edited by David L. Keightley; the second was Popular Chinese Literature alld P"jonning Arts in the People's Republic oj China, edited by Bonnie S. McDougall; and .the third was Class and Social Stratification in Post-Revolution China, edited by James L. Watson.

The contributors and their papers are:

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an important function of law in the new nations of the Middle East. Scholars who point out the role of national law in governing rights of property may emphasize the continuity between colonial regimes and the new nations-a continuity of increased state power. This centralizing power of the state through the use of law is occurring in countries with social structures as different as Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia. In this context, property becomes a central issue. That which is perceived as threatening to the consolidation of the state, whether it be local control over water or kinship alliances and landholdings, is being undermined by national law.

In addition, there are instances in which law serves other functions. Hence, national law may merge with religious law, customary law, or even with internationallaw in setting the boundaries of property rights and defining new properties. In the papers we see that the work of law in resolving conflict, distributing resources, or contributing to symbolic goal setting is crucial to analyses of property, power, and law.

The contributors and their papers are, Habib Attia (Carthage)

"Watn-Sharing Rights in the Jcrid Oases of Tunisia" Tomas Gerholm, University of Stockholm "Aspects of Inheritance and Marriage Payment in North Yemen"

Ahdellah Hammoudi, Hassan II University (Rabat) "Substance and Relation: Water Rights and Water DistribUlion

in the I)ra Valley" MiJad M. Hanna, Ayn Shams University "Real Estate Rights in Urban Egypt: The Changing Sociopolitical Winds" Pamela R. Johnson and Stephen F. Lintner, both of the United

Slates Agency for International Development "Centralism and Pluralism: Legal Issues in Three Near Eastern Area Development Projects" S;lInir Khalaf, American University of Beirut "Social Structure and Urban Planning in Lebanon" Robert J. Lapham, National Research Council; Allan G. Hill, Centre for Population Studies (London); and Charles B. Keely, The Population Council (New York) "International Migration in the Middle East: Effects on PropC;!ny and Social StrucLUre" ReillY Leveau, Center for Research and for Economic, Juridical, and Social Documentation (CEDE.J), Cairo "Public Property and Control of Pmperty Rights: Their Effects on Social Structure in Morocco" Ahraham Marcus. University of Texas "Real Property and Society in the Premodern Middle East: A Case Study" Ann Elizabeth Mayer, University of Pennsylvania "Preface" Laura Nader, University of California. Berkeley "Introduction"

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Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations, by Howard Schuman, Charlotte Steeh, and Lawrence Bobo. Sponsored by the Committee on Social Indicators as part of a series, Social Trends in the United States, under the editorial supervision of James A. Davis and John Modell. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1985. xi + 260 pages. Cloth, $22.50.

This book reports and analyzes changes in American attitudes toward racial issues that have taken place between the 1940s and the 1980s. The authors report survey ,hta concerning attitudes of blacks and whites toward each other.

The data were collected by three major survey organizations in the United States: the Gallup Organization; the ational Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago; and the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. The authors group these data into one of three major sets of questions concerning principles of racial equality, attitudes toward governmental implementation of those principles, and professed feelings and behavior toward the integration and interaction of the races. Questions are in turn used to judge the merits of three interpretations of change in racial attitudes in the United States during this period: (I) a consistent liberalization in the attitudes of white Americans toward blacks, (2) an eroding commitment to racial justice and the emergence of symbolic racism, and (3) some combination of these two interpretations which incorporates both progress and resistance to racial tolerance and equality. In the words of the authors, "the major change in the past four decades has involved rejection of absolute racial segregation and acceptance of the principle of movement by blacks into previously all-white spheres of life .... This acceptance goes beyond the single black individual ... so long as the number represents a clear minority. But as soon as questions indicate that blacks might constitute a majority of the neighborhood, school, or other sphere, open white objection becomes more pronounced. Moreover, a large proportion of whites object to any governmental action that might facilitate such a change from a white to a black majority, and ... this opposition has decreased very little since the 1940s. . .. I n sum, the change over the past four decades has been away from both the principle and, to an extent, the practice of absolute segregationand in this sense it has been a genuine and large change-but is has not been clearly toward full integration of blacks into white society."

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data, the authors assess the sensitivity of survey responses to the wording and placement of questions within a questionnaire and provide a useful general overview of the pitfalls involved in studying changes in attitudes through survey-based research methods.

A Scholars' Guide to Humanities and Social Sciences in the Soviet Union: The Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Academies of Sciences of the Union Republics, edited by Blair A. Ruble and Mark H. Teeter; compiled by Robert Muivani, Viktor Pliushchev, and Vadim Milshtein , with the assistance of Viktor Cherviakov and Valerii Osinov. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1985. 310 pages.

Cloth, $75.00.

This volume contains the findings of the most comprehensive survey ever made of the social science and humanities institutions of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the academies of sciences of the Union republics. A project of the American Council of Learned Societies-Soviet Academy of Sciences Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences, administered in the United States by the International Research & Exchanges Board (I REX), A Scholars' Guide is the result of a five-year program of American and Soviet social scientists. The program was administered in the Soviet Union by the Institute of Scientific Information in the Social Sciences (INIO ) of the USSR Academy of Sciences and in the United States by the Kennan Institute for Advanced

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The guide includes basic information concerning the name, address, director, telephone number, institutional history, staff size, research interests, publications, and international contacts of 158 scientific research institutes as well as 59 scientific coordinating councils throughout the institutional hierarchy of the Soviet academies of sciences. The data were collected in the Soviet Union by Robert Mdivani, Viktor Pliushchev, and Vadim Milshtein, with the assistance of Viktor Cherviakov and Valerii Osinov. All Soviet participants are affiliated with the Moscow-based I nstitute of Scientific Information in the Social Sciences.

The Soviet scholars gathered information through a survey of all relevant institutions as well as through supplementary information searches. The survey instrument was designed jointly by the Soviet and American participants. The preparation of the text was the sole responsibility of the Soviet participants.

The American editors, Blair A. Ruble of the Council and Mark H. Teeter, The Episcopal High School (Alexandria, Virginia), were responsible for the volume's basic structure and conception. Translation, minor style and format editing, the compilation of the indexes, and publication were also the responsibility of the American participants.

Each institution's director, address, and phone number are up to date as of August 1985. More recent or fuller information on any institution or part of the USSR Academy of Sciences may be obtained by contacting the I nternational Research & Exchanges Board, 655 Third Avenue, New York, New York 10017.

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