Implications of the Sociological Concept of Security for Social Work Practice

The three texts are Bell Earl H. , Social Foundations of Human Behavior, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1961; Blaine E. Mercer, Introduction to the Study of Society, Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1959; Leonard Broom and Philip Selznick, Sociology, Row, Peterson & Co., Evanston, Illinois, 1958.

For a pertinent and insightful discussion of the biosocial basis of infantile love, see Winch Robert F. , The Modern Family, rev. ed., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1963, pp. 443–44.

For a pertinent and insightful discussion of the biosocial basis of infantile love, see Winch Robert F. , The Modern Family, rev. ed., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1963, pp. 14 and 296.

A detailed treatment of this general topic may be found in LaPiere Richard T. , A Theory of Social Control, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1954.

For a discussion of the impact of urban, industrial, competitive life on the individual cf. Bredemeier Harry C. , and Toby Jackson , Social Problems in America, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1960, passim. Also James A. Quinn, Urban Sociology, American Book Co., New York, 1955, Chapter 6.

For an article illustrating the first point, cf. Cottrell W. F. , “Death by Dieselization: A Case Study in the Reaction to Technological Change,” American Sociological Review, Vol. XVI, June 1951, pp. 358–65.

de Tocqueville Alexis , Democracy in America, Vol. II, Alfred Knopf, New York, 1945, pp. 140–41 and 368.