Social Environment and Behavior: A Text with Readings. Edited by Harold Greenberg,Cambridge, Schenkman, 1972. 646 Pages, $5.50 Paper, $11.25 Hardbound

This paper examines a random sample of undergraduate social work program catalogues and compares them with earlier surveys by Sherman Merle and Alfred Stamm to see what changes are taking place in the administrative and curricular relationship of social work to the social sciences. A tendency for programs to separate from social science departments, to increase social work requirements, and to teach more social science courses themselves was noted. Signs of lack of clear direction on the relationship of social work to the social sciences also were detected. The implication of these trends for the future of social work is discussed briefly.     

Perspectives on Social Welfare,Paul E. Weinberger. New York,Macmillan Company, 1969. 458 pp. $4.95, Paperback

Factors influencing the teacher-student relationship include student acceptance of experience as proof, questioning traditional wisdom and curriculum structure, redefinition of teacher authority, recognition of the relative state of our knowledge, demands for individual rights, and insistence on involvement in curriculum structuring and the teaching-learning process.

Useful changes toward a more egalitarian teacher-student relationship also are discussed, including elimination of the traditional academic caste system, increased faculty encouragement of student autonomy, reconstruction of fieldwork experiences, increased student involvement in school administration, individual instruction based on contract, provision for students to experience teacher roles, and development of an experimental curriculum.