Showing papers by "San Francisco State University published in 1972"

Self-Medication: An Only Child Syndrome?

Abstract: (1972). Self-Medication: An Only Child Syndrome? Journal of Psychedelic Drugs: Vol. 5, Drug Abuse 1972, pp. 62-66.

Paleoserology Techniques Applied to Skeletal Identification

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to present a brief history of bone blood-grouping, to review paleoserological methodology, and to discuss the logic employed in several styles of reporting this blood group information. Included in the discussion will be additions in technique employed in my studies of archeological bone samples.

The Structure of Country Drinking Parties on Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota

Abstract: Drinking parties in country Indian homes display a regular structure that does not seem to be necessarily related to the amount of alcohol consumed. Elements of this structure include changes in in...

The Class Structure of Hippie Society

Abstract: MOST STUDIES OF DEVELOPMENT are concerned with the movement from simple to complex societies (see, e.g., Eisenstadt, 1966). The hippies provide an example of change in the opposite direction. Beginning as dropouts from postindustrial society, they have conceived a vision of a simpler way of life, and they have attempted to put that vision into everyday practice. In the process, an indigenous marketplace has developed. The purpose of this paper is to describe some of the salient features of that marketplace-specifically, its class structure.

The New American Catholic History

Abstract: Even historians and historically minded sociologists with little sense or awareness of the current Roman Catholic scene have been stirred by the precipitous flow of events of the last dozen years to ask questions about the Catholic role in American society. Virtually without warning, the history of American Catholicism has been catapulted from specialized ecclesiastical history of interest to Catholics primarily into an ecumenical history of unprecedented general interest. After hovering backstage for centuries, the Catholic presence has erupted almost simultaneously from the secular and theological wings and burst onto centerstage. A convergence of public events dramatized and personalized for world Catholicism by the papacy of John XXIII and for American Catholicism by the presidency of John F. Kennedy ironically magnified a sense of supreme Catholic crisis and confusion that in its scope and implications dwarfed earlier American Catholic crises, making them appear parochial and intramural by comparison. The elevation to the papacy of the most saintly and humble of priests and the brief presidency of the first Catholic president of the United States turned an aged pope and a young president into symbols of a new public Catholicism, cosmopolitan and courageous in its vision and democratic in its thrust. Vatican II, the ecumenical movement, the race revolution, the general revolt against authority, the new ethnic succession, explosive social and geographic mobility, and the heightened self-consciousness of newer ethnics of European origin and largely Catholic religion, combined with the instant exposure of the mass media, synchronized with an era of American world hegemony and the emergence of an American Catholicism of appropriate dimensions.1 The implications of such changes for American Catholic history, given the eager search for comparative historical perspectives, the maturing of urban and ethnic history, the universal quest for identity and an upsurge of interest in American religious history, are manifold. Almost overnight, psychic barriers and feelings of Catholic inferiority that had lingered for generations seemed nearly to dissolve. The Catholic Church as the ready foil of Protestant and post-Protestant America, the symbol and embodiment of the hierarchical, monarchical old order of pre-Reformation and preFrench Revolution Europe, appeared almost as obsolete as the yeoman farmer. Catholics in their delayed and heightened confrontation with the cumulative forces of modernism now seemed analagous to Jews of an earlier era who had experienced a great awakening as their segregated antique civilization sought a new viability in the modern world, and to the succession of Protestant denominations which in the course of almost two centuries had less precipitously encountered secular cultural shock. As a result, those of all religious faiths and none were drawn to share vicariously and at least retrospectively in the Catholic experience. The discontinuity between past and present that has marked the last decade or so for American Catholics is most vividly illustrated in the two successive editions of American Catholicism by its foremost living historian, John Tracy

Self-Medication and the Only Child.

Abstract: The increased incidence of the abuse of psychoactive drugs in the United States by youth has contributed to a growing concern throughout the world even though man has used drugs for centuries. Much conflicting evidence exists supporting the assumption that the use of psychoactive drugs is related to a complex pattern of physical, psychological, and social forces. The family represents one critical influence on the developing personality of the child. Included in the familial forces relating to differences in personality is the physical structure of the family. Among the familial characteristics of family size, sex of siblings, and birth order, the latter has received the most attention of researchers. Birth order appears to some extent to influence the way the child is treated by family members, therefore, accounting in part for certain differences in personality. An attempt to gain further insight on the impact of the family on patterns of drug use was made by comparing birth order and the use of certain psychoactive drugs among selected students at California State University, San Francisco.

The Mystery of the Battle of la-tzu-k'ou in the Long March

Abstract: The historical experience of the Chinese Communist Party before 1949 has often assumed the dimension of a myth. As in any myth, what actually happens is not as important as the significant lesson to be learned. A case in point is the battle of “the last and the most strategic pass” of La-tzu-k'ou in the Long March. The Chinese annals contain at least five differing versions of this encounter on September 17–18, 1935. This may be attributed, inter alia, to the desire of the authors to glorify their own part in the Long March as much as that the battle of La-tzu-k'ou is of greater political than military significance. By publishing these accounts, the Chinese authorities hope to prove the correctness of Mao Tse-tung's policy of the northward march in mid-1935. Indeed Lin Piao's role was largely a magniloquent account of relevant events at La-tzu-k'ou, following his appointment as Minister of National Defense to succeed the disgraced P'eng Te-huao in 1959—notwithstanding the fact that Mao Tse-tung had in 1935 composed a well-known poem praising only P'eng's valor during the battle. True, history is historiography and historiography is politics in the People's Republic of China.

The Stimulus in Learning: S-R Theory Versus Two Types of Stimulus Selection.

Abstract: The Stimulus in Learning: S-R Theory Versus Two Types of Stimulus Selection Robert S. Sobel & Theodore E. Steiner To cite this article: Robert S. Sobel & Theodore E. Steiner (1972) The Stimulus in Learning: S-R Theory Versus Two Types of Stimulus Selection, The Journal of General Psychology, 86:1, 15-24, DOI: 10.1080/00221309.1972.9918488 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00221309.1972.9918488