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SOCIALA MEDDELANDEN 1954, NR 6
Sociala Meddelanden
Official Journal published monthly by the Social Welfare Board of Sweden
1954, no 6 CONTENTS
Social security in an age of pensions. By Richard M. Titmuss
Page
343
Where shall I apply? By Anna Lisa Söderblom 353
Status and social group.
Short notices:
By Gunnar Boalt 358
The problems of non-response in connection with two inquiries made in 1953 into
wage statistics 366
The Social Welfare Board's expression of views on a report submitted for comment on
a register of firms
Changes in the method of publication of the Social Welfare Board's wage statistics .
Wage conditions in September 1953 for employees in private commodity trade . . .
368
372
372
The Human Being in social policy 372
Periodical Surveys
Register 373
Employment and wages in industry in February 1954 373
Aliens in Sweden as at the 1st January 1954 380
Building activities in certain cities and urban districts during the first quarter
of 1954 385
The retail trade turnover in 1953 389
Employment and unemployment 392
The Social Welfare Board's general consumer price index for April 1954 . . 395
Literary survey 399
Book notices 405
Social security in an age of pension». The British
system of social security, which was estoblished in
ID4H, is now bring overhauled. Government inquiries
ure licing conducted into the insurance
system's way of functioning and into the general
problems associated with old-age pension» and
providing occupation for elderly persons.
Professor Richard M. Titmuss discusses in his
article the background of this revision of social
policy and surveys the more important problems
of social security now under discussion. Page 343.
Where shall I apply? Under this title Mrs. Anna
Lisa Söderblom write» on "The Social Radio Letterbox",
which has been functioning now for 15
years.
The article discusses, among other things, the
typo of |M'ople who make use of the "Letter-box"
and the sort of (questions that are most frequently
asked. I'uge 353.
Status and Social Uruup. In this urticle Professor
Gunnar lloalt deals with some of the various
methods of "stratifying" the people in a community,
lie writes, inter alio, that far too much bias
The Issue in Brief
has been attached to the old term Social Class in
Sweden. The term Social Group offers a better line
of demarcation, but even that is beginning to be
treated with some bias. Presumably it is in process
of being quietly ousted by the terms Social Stratum
and Social Stratification. Professor Boalt
critically examines the ideas of some American
sociologists such as Kaufman, Centers and Warner,
and also the Swedish method of determining social
groups such as that employed by the Central Statistical
Bureau in its election statistics. Page 358.
Km-ployment and wages in industry in Februari)
1954.
On an average for all industrial groups the number
of workers accounted for at the woTk places
increased by 0.1 ')„ in February 1954 compared
with the same month of 1953, the number of male
workers showing a decline of 0.2 %, while the number
of women workers went up by 1.4 %.
The average hourly earning» rose between Xovemlier
1953 and February 1954 by 0.9 °„ finadult
men and bv 0.H % for adult women. Page
373.