BEHAVIOR THERAPY (1970) 1, 572-574 Book Reviews Briefly Noted BRONFENBRENNER, URIE. Two Worlds of Childhood: U. S. and U. S. S. R. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1970. ix + 190 Pp. $7.95. A timely, important, and eminently readable book by a distinguished social scientist with an implicit message for all behavior therapists who care about broader issues. Child-rearing practices are intimately bound up with the host society and the consequent process of socialization, and Bronfenbrenner's insightful cross-cultural researches in our two great communities--the U. S. A. and the U. S. S. R.--provide the basis for a penetrating com- mentary upon the relative strengths and deficits of the process of socialization in both societies. His insightful proposals for change in our society--while only tangentially im- pinging upon behavior therapy per se--could well provide the starting-off ground for a behavioral blueprint of the future. Of particular interest is the stress Bronfenbrenner places upon the potency of modeling behavior in the overall scheme of social change rather than the more popular principles of reinforcement. WISEMAN, JACQUELINE P. Stations of the Lost: The Treatment of Skid Row Alcoholics. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1970. xxi + 346 Pp. $8.95 cloth, $4.95 paper. An insightful, authentic, down-to-earth, sociological account of life on Skid Row from two points of view--that of the alcoholic and that of the diverse punitive, professionally rehabili- tative, or religious agencies of social control whose job it is to work with him. Both those who wish to set up a total behavioral program for the alcoholic and those whose concern is with the bringing about of change in the existing institutions and apparatus for dealing with such social problems will find much potentially useful material in these pages. NOTTERMAN, JOSEPH M. Readings in Behavior. New York: Random House, 1970. xiv+ 385 Pp. $4.00. A useful compendium of some 30 reprinted papers with a wide range of topics; biological, sociological, philosophical, empirical--all bound together by a common allegiance to the notion of behavioral adaptation. Contributors include: Watson, Hull, Norbert Wiener, Razran, Skinner, Sidman, Hutchinson and Azrin, KiShler, Frank Beach, Heffedine, Delgado, Freud, Bachrach, Bergin, Marvin Opler, Cannon, and Seeman and Marks. While a few of the papers are dated (e.g., Razran's account of Soviet psychology, circa 1958) and others have been expanded to extinction in so many other sources (e.g., the rules of the S-R game as propounded by Watson in 1919 and Hull in 1943), in general the collection is excellent for the undergraduate but likely to be of less immediate utility to those at a more advanced stage. 572

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BEHAVIOR THERAPY (1970) 1, 572-574

Book Reviews

Briefly Noted

BRONFENBRENNER, URIE. Two Worlds of Childhood: U. S. and U. S. S. R. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1970. ix + 190 Pp. $7.95.

A timely, important, and eminently readable book by a distinguished social scientist with an implicit message for all behavior therapists who care about broader issues. Child-rearing practices are intimately bound up with the host society and the consequent process of socialization, and Bronfenbrenner's insightful cross-cultural researches in our two great communities--the U. S. A. and the U. S. S. R.--provide the basis for a penetrating com- mentary upon the relative strengths and deficits of the process of socialization in both societies. His insightful proposals for change in our society--while only tangentially im- pinging upon behavior therapy per se--could well provide the starting-off ground for a behavioral blueprint of the future. Of particular interest is the stress Bronfenbrenner places upon the potency of modeling behavior in the overall scheme of social change rather than the more popular principles of reinforcement.

WISEMAN, JACQUELINE P. Stations of the Lost: The Treatment of Skid Row Alcoholics. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1970. xxi + 346 Pp. $8.95 cloth, $4.95 paper.

An insightful, authentic, down-to-earth, sociological account of life on Skid Row from two points of view--that of the alcoholic and that of the diverse punitive, professionally rehabili- tative, or religious agencies of social control whose job it is to work with him. Both those who wish to set up a total behavioral program for the alcoholic and those whose concern is with the bringing about of change in the existing institutions and apparatus for dealing with such social problems will find much potentially useful material in these pages.

NOTTERMAN, JOSEPH M. Readings in Behavior. New York: Random House, 1970. xiv+ 385 Pp. $4.00.

A useful compendium of some 30 reprinted papers with a wide range of topics; biological, sociological, philosophical, empirical--all bound together by a common allegiance to the notion of behavioral adaptation. Contributors include: Watson, Hull, Norbert Wiener, Razran, Skinner, Sidman, Hutchinson and Azrin, KiShler, Frank Beach, Heffedine, Delgado, Freud, Bachrach, Bergin, Marvin Opler, Cannon, and Seeman and Marks. While a few of the papers are dated (e.g., Razran's account of Soviet psychology, circa 1958) and others have been expanded to extinction in so many other sources (e.g., the rules of the S-R game as propounded by Watson in 1919 and Hull in 1943), in general the collection is excellent for the undergraduate but likely to be of less immediate utility to those at a more advanced stage.

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