Jane C. Kronick

The assault on equality

Preface Introduction The History, Biology, and Psychology of IQ A Meritocratic Social Structure A Biogenetic View of Schools and Poverty Family Matters and Moral Values Race Inequalities The Assault on Education and Affirmative Action The Political Philosophy of Elitism The Assault on Equality Appendix 1: Statistical Methods Appendix 2: The Scholarship of The Bell Curve Bibliography Index

2. Predictors of Cross-Cultural Variation in the Percentage of Women Employed in Europe

One of the universal social changes in western European society in the latter half of the twentieth century has been the rapid increase in the employment of women. While certain groups in society have maintained steady female employment throughout modern history, for instance, low-income families and the black woman in the United States from every socio-economic level, the early history of urban industrialized society has been a relegation of the middle and upper income female to a role as housewife, mother and voluntary worker. Since World War II, women have returned to paid employment in increasing numbers, with a rapid acceleration of employment among women with preschool children in the late 1960’s. In seeking to understand this phenomenon, sociologists and economists have looked at factors within society, documenting economic need as a major component and describing the lack of appropriate values on the part of government, employers and the women themselves to support such employment with consequences within the dual-career family of individual fatigue and conflict. (See for instance, Dahlstrom, 1967; Manpower Research Monograph No. 1, 1970; Rapoport and Rapoport, 1971.) Expanding female employment has not progressed at an even rate in all

The Family Policy Implications of a New Social Program: The New Zealand Accident Compensation Scheme.

This study uses field data and analysis of documents to identify the family implications of the New Zealand Accident Compensation Scheme and suggests how the adoption of the new social welfare principles underlying the implementing Act could impact family policy in the United States. Innovations were the attribution of accidents as a community responsibility, the definition of the family unit in terms of past economic support and the adaptation of common law principles to social provision. The paper recommends the consideration of these principles in present attempts in the United States to protect families from the consequences of sudden disability.

Community responsibility for accident victims

W hat accident rate should a nation tolerate? Who is to blame for asbestosis, mesothelioma, thalidomide deformities, or dioxin defects? What does a nation owe the victims? What is the governments responsibility and how should it be determined and enforced? These questions are becoming increasingly important. Despite growing regulatory activity, birth defects from teratogenic agents continue, food products contain unknown quantities of toxic substances, and the cancer rate continues to rise. In the United States a victim of one of these environmental hazards can seek

Public Interest Group Participation in Congressional Hearings On Nuclear Power Development

has questioned the role of the voter (Nisbet, 1976) and noted the predictable cycle of voter support for social legislation (Frey, 1978). Relatively little attention, however, has been given to the importance of legislative hearings and the representations which are made in this forum. The analysis of nuclear energy includes studies of the safety of nuclear energy for domestic use (The Rasmussen Report, 1975), of the effects of radiation on human health (House Hearings, 1979), of the hazards of nuclear energy production (Environmental Action Foundation, 1979) and of the origins and actions of nuclear protest groups (Nelkin and Pollak, 1980). This paper will examine the history of participation by different interest groups in the hearings on critical legislation to promote the development of nuclear power and will document the limited nature of the participation by &dquo;public interest&dquo; groups.1