UpDate - Vol. 15, No. 9, Page 6
October 26, 1995
Ruth Horowitz receives Cooley Award for latest book

     A book by Ruth Horowitz, professor of sociology and criminal
justice, has been recognized as a major, classic work in its field.
Horowitz received the Charles Horton Cooley Award for her book, Teen
Mothers: Citizens or Dependents? from the Society for the Study of
Symbolic Interaction, a national professional sociology association.
     The award was presented in August at the American Sociological
Association conference in Washington, D.C.
     The book examines a yearlong, government-sponsored, pilot
program, Project GED. The project's goal was to help young women earn
their high school equivalency diplomas, learn parenting and life
skills and prepare them for training for the job market. Horowitz
acted as observer and occasional participant and gave an inside view
of the program, its staff and participants from the point of view of a
professional sociologist.
     The book is directed to social service personnel who are
responsible for making welfare programs work; those who develop
policies and programs dealing with welfare; and sociologists
interested in citizenship and the welfare state.
     Teen Mothers was reviewed in The Women's Review of Books, which
said that "it deserves a wider audience" and called the book "original
and illuminating as well as timely."
     A review by the Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Review and Newsletter in Great Britain said the book "demonstrates the
needs for thorough planning before establishing an intervention
program, especially with respect to the philosophy of the
organization, the structure of authority and the recruitment and
training of staff...it makes essential reading for a variety of
professionals...but especially those working with young mothers will
find this volume thought provoking and a valuable tool...."
     Published by the University of Chicago Press, the book is one of
its 50 best sellers for the year.
     A graduate of Temple University with master's and doctoral
degrees from the University of Chicago, Horowitz also is the author of
Honor and the American Dream, a study of youths in a Chicano
neighborhood in Chicago, which was published in 1983.
                                                   -Sue Swyers Moncure