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- 62 -Barry Leighton, Connections' Associate Editor, ends his term with this issue and is off to SimonFraser University, Vancouver, to teach sociology of law and conduct research on support networks amongcrime victims .Samuel Leinhardt is the new editor of Sociological Methodology . His collection of network papers,entitled Social Networks : A Developing ParadiM (New York, Academic Press, 1977) is receiving widespreaduse in network and related courses .Charles Mokken is now Director of Methods and Development, Central Bureau of Statistics, PrinsesBeatrixlaan 428, Voorburg, The Netherlands .Franz Urban Pappi is now at the Institut fUr Soziologie der Christian-Albrechts Universitat,Olshuasenstr . 40/60, D-2300 Kiel 1, West Germany .Jacqueline Scherer has received a U .S . National Institute of Education Research grant to study schoolcommunityrelationships via network analysis during a decade of desegregation, especially relationshipsbetween informal and organizational roles according to race, and a content analysis of the flow of informationalong the networkChris Winship is now at N .O .R .C ., Chicago .Information is requested on other shifts and flows through the network .MDSand ClusteringA bibliography on all multidimensional and clustering techniques holdings in Cologne (about 650entries)is available free of charge .Interested researchers should ask for Wolfgang Bick et al ., Multidimensional Scaling and ClusteringTechniques (Theory and Applications in Sociology) : A Bibliography of the Holdings in Cologne, Version4 (February, 1978) . Institute for Applied Social Research, University of Cologne, Greinstr . 2, 5000KBln 41, West Germany .The compilers offer to include all MDS and clustering papers sent to them in a future compilation ofthe bibliography .A Study of Personal Networks of the ElderlyRobin Armstrong (Geography, U . Guelph) makes available a brief report of her study on "PersonalNetworks and the Elderly in the Northern Portion of Huron County" as part of a Rural Development OutreachProject in Ontario, Canada . This report evaluates the contention that : (i) social networks are of greaterimportance to senior citizens (aged 65 and over) than to members of other age groups of adults ; and(ii) social networks of the elderly are subject to a greater degree of deterioration than those of otherage groups . Hypotheses related to these contentions are tested statistically within the constraintsimposed by the quality of the data available to the researchers .A copy of this report is available from : Information Coordinator, Rural Development Outreach Project,Johnston Hall, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1 .For MacrostructuraZ Urbanists"The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research is concerned with the study of conflictinginterests in urban and regional development, demonstrating the social basis of different approaches toplanning and state intervention . One of the journal's most important objectives is to stimulate integratedresearch in a field that offers one of the best opportunities for interdisciplinary work in the socialsciences, and it will take account of the links between sociology, political economy, history, socialanthropology, geography, and demography . In particular, it encourages comparative research that analysesthe diversity of patterns of urbanization throughout the world . A major focus is the examination of emergingalternative structures ."Michael Harloe, Manuel Castells and Chris Pickvance (of INSNA) are theprincipal editors . Subscriptions are !12/$24, from Edward Arnold publishers, 41 Bedford Square, LondonWC1B 3DQ, EnglandMacro-urbanists should also note a fine collection of papers from the antipodes, given at the annual meetingsof the Australian and New Zealand Branch, Urban and Regional Development Section, International SociologicalAssociation, in conjunction with the Urban Section, Sociological Association of Australia and New ZealandConference, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, May 18 - 21, 1978 . Patrick Mullins(ed) .Contents : Jim Ward "Supporters, Cynics and Sceptics : Three Views of the New Urban Sociology" ; Kate Gillen"New Capitalism, New Marxism" ; Ivan Szelenyi "The Relative Autonomy of the State or State Mode of Production?(Notes on the changing nature of state intervention in urban and regional development under the con-
- 63 -ditions of stagflationary crisis of contemporary capitalism) ; Mighael Jager "A Study on the Study of UrbanSocial Movements" ; Len Eastop "On Participation in an Urban Renewal Scheme" ; Michael Berry "Housing as anElement in the Reproduction of Labour Power" ; Jim Kemeny "Homeownership and Privatisation in CapitalistSocieties : A Cross-Cultural Perspective" ; Bettina Cass "A Critical Evaluation of the Concept of Consumptionin Urban Sociology" ; S .B . Aungles "The Social Consequences of Industrial Development and Industrial DeclineWhyalla : A Case Study" ; E .A . Cleland and R .J . Stimson "Equity and Services in Cities : The Example of MetropolitanAdelaide" :Terry Burke and Kath Hulse "Residential Caravans : A New Housing Class" ; Leslie Kilmartinand David C . Thorns "The Heart Possessed : Ownership of Central Business Areas in Australasia . A ResearchProposal"These papers are available, at A$3 .75 (payable to "ISA Urban Group) including surface postage, from ;Patrick Mullins, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Queensland, St . Lucia, Queensland4067, Australia .For Neighbourhood UrbanistsUrban Affairs Quarterly will have a special issue on "The Revitalization of Inner City Neighbourhoods ."Among the topics the editors have in mind are : empirical studies on inner city revitalization ; theoreticalexplanations of the changing patterns of urban neighborhoods ; life-style differences between urban andsuburban areas ; the political economy of inner city revitalization ; differences between areas that have beenaltered by governmental policies and those that have been "spontaneously" rehabilitated ; documentation ofthe extent of social organizational changes in inner cities ; the impact of population changes on thecommercial and retail life of the inner city ; intra-city migration patterns by class and status ; analysesof the displacement process and of displaced populations . Other topics would be considered . Interestedauthors should send a brief outline of the proposed contribution to Bruce London, Department of Sociology,Mary Washington College, Fredricksburg, Virginia 22401, U .S .A. Three copies of prospective papers shouldbe subiaitted by 1 June 1979 .World Directory of Anthropologists and EthnologistsA computer--based directory of 5000+ anthropologists and ethnologists has been developed . It can printboth lists and labels, retrieving by name and address, in conjunction with country of location, languagesused, geographical or tribal areas of interest, and subject-matter interest . All enquires should beaddressed to Jacqueline Rouah, Current Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B .C ., CanadaV6Y 1W5 .Letter from NottinghamThe January, 1979 "Urban Change and Conflict" conference (150 and attendees) was the third in a significantseries . The first in 1975 has become retrospectively famous in England as it was the occasion whena number of French and Italian Marxian urbanists (perhaps Manuel Castells is the best known) gave Englishspeaking urbanists the message that their own work had seriously ignored the ways in which class structureand conflict determined urban form and process .Four years later that message sPPms to have been accepted, consolidated and frequently watered down ina mixture of British pragmatic empiricism . Most of the formal papers at the conference were couched insome sort of Marxian structural language ; the informal discussions even more so . Most papers stuck muchmore closely to empirical case study than to abstract generalization . Most tended to use a network cumstructuralist framework to organize and analyze the relationships involved .There were a number of good papers, particularly noteworthy for CONNECTIONS readers are those byRoberts, Saunders, Elliott and McCrone, Newby, and Piven and Cloward . A list of selected papers (seemeeting calendar) summaries (see Abstracts section) follows . Please note that the summaries have beenexcerpted by CONNECTIONS' editors in all but Abrams' case . The absence of a summary implies no editorialjudgement other than the difficulty of properly excerpting . The conference was sponsored by the Centrefor Environmental Studies, London .Mental Health and Social Networks : A Request for Information and AdviceChristopher Smith (Geography, Oklahoma) writes :"Beginning January 1, 1979, I am working as a National Science Foundation Resident with the MentalHealth Association in Oklahoma County . This Residency is a part of NSF's Science for Society Program, andI shall be on leave from my job at the University of Oklahoma for 12 months . During that time, I shall belooking into the situation of mental patients who are discharged from the major mental hospital in centralOklahoma and who returned to live in the Oklahoma City area .The topics I shall be considering are as follows : (1) The individual search for help and serviceswithin the city . I am interested in who they go to for help both formally and informally, and what their
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