On caring and the restoration of social order.

In an article which won the Helen Potter Award in 1975, J. Ron Stanfield [1975, pp. 153-165] urges "a reformulation of the meaning of humanity and human progress" which recognizes the individual as a person who knows and does much as opposed to one who has much. His suggested paradigms for such an individual are the artist and the scientist. At the very end of his most recent article in the Review [Stanfield, 1976, pp. 201-215] he asserts that "[t]he problems of our age stem from the 'degradation of the labor process' and the deteriora? tion of human life this involves" and affirms his confidence in the ability of the "scientific-intellectual elite" to point the way to restoration of social order. These papers reflect a popular and rather convincing socio-economic position espoused by Marxists and other social commentators.