1. Social science and the citizen

   Departments Pages: 2 - 4

2. Letters to the editor

   • Carl L. Bankston
   • E. L. Pattullo
   • John H. Kautsky

   Departments Pages: 5 - 9

3. Keeping priorities straight on welfare reform

   • Charles Murray

   Symposium: Illegitimacy And Welfare Pages: 10 - 12

4. The welfare debate

   • Walter E. Williams

   Symposium: Illegitimacy And Welfare Pages: 13 - 14

5. Is it necessary to be brutal?

   • Richard P. Nathan

   Symposium: Illegitimacy And Welfare Pages: 15 - 16

6. Transfer traps and the poor

   • Dwight R. Lee

   Symposium: Illegitimacy And Welfare Pages: 17 - 18

7. Passing into proverbs

   • William M. Epstein

   Symposium: Illegitimacy And Welfare Pages: 19 - 22

8. Welfare experimentation

   • Norval D. Glenn

   Symposium: Illegitimacy And Welfare Pages: 23 - 24

9. Family caps

   • David Popenoe

   Symposium: Illegitimacy And Welfare Pages: 25 - 27

10. Diagnosis, maybe; solution, no

    • Don Browning

    Symposium: Illegitimacy And Welfare Pages: 28 - 29

11. Single parenthood

    • Sanford M. Dornbusch
    • Melissa R. Herman
    • I-Chun Lin

    Symposium: Illegitimacy And Welfare Pages: 30 - 32

12. Getting to the big picture: Anti-welfare fertility politics in context

    • Dorothy K. Seavey
    • Beth M. Miller

    Symposium: Illegitimacy And Welfare Pages: 33 - 36

13. Welfare reform at work

    • Lawrence M. Mead

    Symposium: Illegitimacy And Welfare Pages: 37 - 40

14. Divorce and illegitimacy

    • Allan Carlson

    Symposium: Illegitimacy And Welfare Pages: 41 - 42

15. Welfare reform priorities

    • Neil Gilbert

    Symposium: Illegitimacy And Welfare Pages: 43 - 45

16. Black-on-black violence

    • James W. Clarke

    Feature Article Pages: 46 - 50

17. Smog in America

    • Kenneth Chilton
    • Christopher Boerner

    Social Science And Public Policy Pages: 51 - 60

18. Food and beer in an immigrant society

    • Jules Zanger

    Culture And Society Pages: 61 - 63

19. War and modernity

    • Christopher Coker

    Society Abroad Pages: 64 - 68

20. Robert maynard hutchins: The higher learning in America

    • Harry S. Ashmore

    Profile Pages: 69 - 75

21. Books in review

    • Judith Maas
    • Jay Stanley
    • Stanley Stewart

    BookReview Pages: 78 - 86

22. Social books of the month

    Departments Pages: 87 - 87