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- A sample survey of 344 households in the district which elicited demographic data and information about certain attitudes .
- A study of the membership, aims and activities of formal groups located in the area .
- Data for this study were collected through our participation with the members of the Civic Group, other local leaders and residents, as well as analysis of documents, particularly of the local newspaper .
- A broad investigation of the welfare problems of the residents during a two-month period. Federal, State and voluntary agencies participated. At the local level, welfare was interpreted widely to include such problems as those dealt with by ministers of religion and the infant welfare sister as well as those encountered by social workers .
- Brennan , T. 1967 . Sydney University Community Studies Unit—Research Note . Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology , 3 ( 2 ) A study which seems to be similar in scope to ours is at present being undertaken by the Social Work Department of Sydney University. This study is of Ferndale, a “new town” about 20 miles from Sydney, and aims to investigate “‘normal phenomena’… problems in social functioning and methods of meeting the needs inherent in these problems”.
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- The breakdown for adult rates in the area is as follows: Unskilled 51%; skilled 23%; sales and clerical 11%; self-employed 8%; managerial and professional 5% and pensioners 2% .
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- In Australia we see this interest reflected in the recent economic study of the Institute of Applied Economic Research of the University of Melbourne and in the studies of the Brotherhood of St. Laurence, e.g. Martin Elaine M., High Rents and Low incomes: Housing Problems of Low Income Families. B.S.L., 1964. Other recent works include Stubbs, John, The Hidden People, Melbourne, Cheshire-Lansdowne, 1966, and Masterman G. G. (ed.), Poverty in Australia, Sydney, Angus & Robertson for the Australian Institute of Political Science, 1969. For discussion of a number of “anti-poverty” programmes in the U.S.A. see Marris, Peter and Rien, Martin, Dilemmas of Social Reform, New York, Atherton Press, 1967 .
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- Marris , Peter . 1963 . “ A report on urban renewal ” . In The Urban Condition , Edited by: Duhl , Leonard J. New York : Basic Books .
- Gans . 1967 . The Urban Villagers , 454 New York : The Free Press . Reported by
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- Gans . 1967 . The Urban Villagers , 454 New York : The Free Press .
- See Gans 1965 and 1967 , The Urban Villagers , New York , The Free Press , 454 ., Marris and Rien, op. cit., Luchterhand, Elmer, Research and the Dilemmas in Developing Social Programs, and Hyman, Herbert H., and Wright, Charles R., “Evaluating Social Action Programs” in Lazarsfeld, Sewell, Wilensky (eds.), op. cit.