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Professor MAKI Masahide: Brief Biography and List of Achievements		１
Dedication to Professor MAKI Masahide	KOUSAKA Kenji	７
An Empirical Study of an Aging Society and Labor Problems（２）	MAKI Masahide	９
Contribution
When Suffering from Troubled Human Relationships in the Workplace	NISHIYAMA Misako	２９
A Consideration of Georges Balandier's Dynamic Sociology	KOSEKI Toichiro	４９
Articles
Community Activities and Roles of Self-government Associations	KURATA Washio	６３
The Translation of Employer Correspondence About a Wage Increase in Japan	SUEKI Nobuo	７７
ITS and Environmental Technology in the Automobile Industry of Germany: An International Comparison of Car Culture	OKUNO Takuji	８５
Japan, China, and America Employee Attitudes　─3 Nation Comparison	KAWAKUBO Michiko	９１
A Study of Equivalence of Expressions from Response Scales Used in Cross-National Survey Researth（１）	MANABE Kazufumi	107
Appropriate Assistance 　　Responses to Offers of Foreign Support Following the Great Hanshin Earthquake	Ruth M.GRUBEL	117
Vicarious Traumatic Stress in Clinical Social Work: 　　Psycohological and Transformational Effects of Trauma Work on Practitioners	IKENO Satoshi	129
Lecture
The Meaning of‘Middle’Identification in Contemporary Japan 　　─Debates on Middle Class and Types of Politics─	KOSAKA Kenji	145
Research Notes
A Closed Type Ecological System Influenced by the Western Progressive Type Social System from the Viewpoint of Changing Value Observed among Japanese Americans in Hawaii	SUGIYAMA Sadao	161
Pascal's Doctrine of Grace 　　─Concerning that of Saint Augustine and of Calvin─	MOIKAWA Hajime	169
Dead Heads' Network	NANBA Koji	185