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- Title
NEWS AND NOTES.
- Authors
Harding, Philip
- Abstract
The section presents news and notes related to public opinion research in the U.S. as of June 1972. The National Institute of Mental Health has awarded a grant of $100,000 to the Annenberg School of Communications for a pilot project leading to a system of cultural indicators, sensitive to trends in the content and socializing effects of mass communications. The Bureau of Applied Social Research has begun an evaluation of the effects on New York City citizens of experiments in government decentralization. The Bureau also reports the completion of a study of disaffiliation among middle-aged and elderly women in New York City. Henry Senft, formerly director of marketing research at Canada Dry Corp. has organized Henry Senft Research Associates, a marketing/communications research service. The Russell Sage Foundation has appointed Hugh F. Cline president, effective September 1. Opinion Research Corp. has appointed John S. Schafer and Kenneth Schwartz to positions with the company's Public Opinion Index. The Ford Foundation has announced a grant of $150,000 to the Conservation of Human Resources Project, a social and economic research group based at Columbia University. The Foundation has also awarded $250,000 to the Association of American University Presses to establish a revolving fund for the publication of doctoral dissertations on ethnic studies.
- Subjects
PUBLIC opinion polls; GRANTS in aid (Public finance); NATIONAL Institute of Mental Health (U.S.); DECENTRALIZATION in government; UNIVERSITY presses; SENFT, Henry; CLINE, Hugh F.; BIG Village Insights Inc.; ACADEMIC dissertations
- Publication
Public Opinion Quarterly, 1972, Vol 36, Issue 2, p281
- ISSN
0033-362X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/268001