The Interaction Effects of Parents,Spouse and Schooling: Comparing the Impact of Jewish and Catholic Schools*

This paper discusses the literature on the long-range impact of schooling and the types of effects that schools have shown. It compares data on the impact of Jewish schooling on adult religiosity with similar data from a study of Catholic schooling. Like previous studies on other types of schools, the main effect of Jewish schooling seems to be an accentuation of parental influences. This effect is diminished substantially if not supported by marriage to a religious spouse. However, on some types of religiosity, extensive Jewish schooling produces “conversion” effects which persisted even when pre-school and post-school supports were lacking. The implications of these findings are discussed.     

欧盟电子电气设备废弃物指令的生产者影响分析

在欧盟,荷兰、比利时和瑞典等国家的WEEE回收体系已经建立并运行了多年。根据这些国家的经验,欧盟制定了《关于电子电气设备废弃物(WEEE)指令》。生产者在WEEE指令中责任可分解为经济责任、信息责任和逆向物流责任。本文围绕WEEE指令中针对生产者经营的问题,提出相应的修改建议。     

A general causal model to guide alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug prevention: assessing the research evidence

The problems associated with the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD) extract a significant health, social, and economic toll on American society. While the field of substance abuse prevention has made great strides during the past decade, two major challenges remain. First, the field has been disorganized and fragmented with respect to its research and prevention practices; that is, there are often separate ATOD prevention "specialists." Second, both the prevention researchers who test the efficacy of specific prevention strategies and the practitioners who implement prevention efforts often lack an overall perspective to guide strategy selection. To address these limitations, we present an ATOD causal model that seeks to identify those variables (Domains) that are theoretically salient and empirically connected across alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs. For the researcher, the model demonstrates important commonalities, as well as gaps, in the literature. For the practitioner, the model is a means to recognize both the complexity of the community system that produces ATOD problems and the multiple intervention points that are possible within this system. Researchers and practitioners are thus challenged to work synergistically to find effective and cost-effective approaches to change or reduce ATOD use and associated problems.     

Index to Volume 29

This article measures the efficacy of two approaches to teaching students to assess clients for substance abuse: an alcohol and other drug (AOD) minor program and integration of AOD content into core courses. A quasi-experimental design involved nonrandom assignment to an AOD minors program or to a nonminors curriculum. Both groups reported on their usual AOD assessment and on AOD assessment in their first interview with their most recent client. Self-report outcomes, examined in relation to the number of courses with integrated AOD content taken, suggest that these courses lead to significantly more self-reported assessment for substance abuse.     

Readjustment Issues of the Returned Vietnam Veteran

In this year 2000 A.D. many younger readers will not remember socialworkers. I was reminded of them recently when I met Emeritus Professor Sir Lawrence Brennan on a space bus in which he was returning from his work at Lunar University. Like me, he is now an historian, but half-way through the twentieth century he was a social worker in Australia, a fact he confided with an intriguing mixture of pride and embarrassment.