This work departs from other important sociological studies of voluntary associations in its use of occupation, rather than status and social class, as the clue to the nature of work conditions that directly affect participation in community voluntary associations.

The articles in this volume will stimulate a new effulgence of ideas and a new flurry of research in the social science disciplines.

Wilke has called upon sociologists, observers as well as victims of the caste system, to describe by use of case studies and to analyze the plight of non-tenured faculty and their efforts to survive in an increasingly hostile environment. These stories reveal the human factor, too often slighted or forgotten in discussions of the precarious place of the university in today's society.

In this study of real estate agents--modern middlemen present at most residential exchanges in North America--House explores the entrepreneurial mind and its effect on a broad spectrum of housing problems.