In 1933, President Herbert Hoover commissioned the "Ogburn Report," a comprehensive study of social trends in the United States. Fifty years later, a symposium of noted social and behavioral scientists marked the report's anniversary with a book of their own from the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. The 10 chapters presented here relate the developments detailed in the "Ogburn Report" to modern social trends. This book discusses recent major strides in the social and behavioral sciences, including sociology, psychology, anthropology, economics, and linguistics.

Table of Contents


Front Matter
Introduction
The Ogburn Vision Fifty Years Later
Measuring Social Change
Uncertainty, Diversity, and Organizational Change
Macroeconomic Modeling and Forecasting
Public Statistics and Democratic Politics
Deterrence in Criminology and Social Policy
Choices, Values, and Frames
Changing Views of Cognitive Competence in the Young
Some Developments in Research on Language Behavior
Visual Perception of Real and Represented Objects and Events