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Presents a list of titles and abstracts of papers regarding geography presented to the Association of American Geographers from 1904 to 1910.

The article presents abstracts of the papers presented at the 63rd annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Saint. Louis, Missouri. The meeting took place in April 1967. The paper "Defense and the Morphology of Certain Settlements in the Western Mediterranean," discusses economic growth. Another paper "Approach to a Generating Model for Climatic Statistics," discusses a set of probability models for generating climatic statistics. After a brief review of previous work on this subject, a model based on moving waves superimposed, on standing waves in the zonal winds is outlined.

The paper presents abstracts of papers presented at the 62nd annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers held in Toronto, Ontario from August 29 to 31, 1966. "The Role of the Equilibrium Concept in the Interpretation of Land forms of Fluvial Erosion and Deposition," by Frank Ahnert presents the concept of the equilibrium between the components of morphological processes, which has in recent years met with new interest and is used as the basis for a simple yet reasonably comprehensive system of landform interpretation. "Semi-Nomadism in Southern Israel Today," by Mildred Berman presents selected aspects of social change among the Bedouin who live in the Beersheba region of southern Israel. "Social Hinterlands of New York City and Boston in Southern New England," by David E. Berle presents a study to measure the relative extent of selected Boston and New York City social influences on people living in part of their common hinterland. "Rural Settlement Types and the Change in Land Reclamation System in Taiwan" by Chi-Jen Chang analyzes the two basic settlement types, dispersed and compact in Taiwan.

The article presents abstracts of papers presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Columbus, Ohio on April 18-21, 1965. The paper on the "The Use of Fodder and Livestock Units in Agricultural Geography: A Case Study of Soviet Land Use Policy," by John Anderson focuses on the need for better research tools in agricultural geography. The fodder unit, a concept development by livestock nutritionists, while having some limitations, appears to have some potential for research in agricultural geography.

This article presents abstracts of papers presented at the 60th annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers held in Syracuse, New York, on March 29, 1964 to April 1, 1964. The intention of the paper "Changing Markets and Modes of Transportation for Coal: A Survey" is to acquaint geographers with changes in the coal industry and attempted changes in transporting coal to electric power plants. The paper "The Electricity Industry of British Columbia since 1950" constitutes a brief description of the production, transmission and consumption phases of the electricity industry of British Columbia. The paper "The Pennsylvania Anthracite Industry--A Status Report" attempts to update the image of the Pennsylvania anthracite-mining industry among members of the geographical profession.

The article presents a collection of abstracts of the research papers presented at the 57th annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, which was held in Miami Beach, Florida in April, 1962. The papers listed here includes "The Campus Fringe--A Landscape Phenomenon," by John Alexander. This paper analyses the problems related to the expansion of universities including that of campus fringe, the area which surround a college or university. What are the problems of campus fringes, How have these problems been faced by different schools, are there any principles which research geographers might discover which would be useful to campus authorities facing decisions regarding expansion problems, all these points have been considered by the researcher.

The article presents abstracts of papers presented at the 47th annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, held at Chicago, Illinois between march 19, 1951 and march 22, 1951. Lewis M. Alexander presents the paper Survey of Commercial Rivalry between the North Sea Ports of Belgium and the Netherlands. Homer Aschmann presents the paper Consumer-oriented Classification of the Products of Tropical Agriculture. Tracy B. Augur presented the paper on Regional-Urban Relationships. George Beishlag presented the paper on What Cartography Can Do for Geography Students.

The article presents various titles and abstracts of research papers related to geography by the Association of American Geographers. Some of papers included are "Problems of Geographic Influence," by Albert Perry Brigham, "Some Geographic Factors Influencing Brazilian Trade," by Walter S. Tower, "Postglacial Migrations of Vegetation in the Middle West," by Henry Allan Gleason, "Bases for Dividing the United States into Physiographic Provinces," by N. M. Fenneman, "The Losses of Nebraska," by G. E. Condra.

The article presents abstracts of papers presented at the tenth annual meeting of Society for Psychophysiological Research, which was held at Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, from November 19-22, 1970. Some abstracts of papers that were presented at the meeting are "Response Imperativeness and the Cardiac Wave-Form During the Preparation of a Motor and "Mental" Reaction Response," by Gary E. Schwartz and J. Higgins and "Respiration and Heart Rate Indices of Reaction Time," by Stephen W. Porges.

The article presents an alphabetical list of abstracts and titles of abstracts submitted for papers presented at meetings of the American Statistical Association and Biometric Society in Washington D.C., in December 1967. The abstract "Indians and Smudges on the Census Schedule," by Donald S. Akers and Elizabeth A. Larmon, is an explanation of how certain anomalies in the reported characteristics of American Indians in the 1960 Census are to be explained by systematic smudging of the census schedules. The abstract "Input-Output and the Economy," by Clopper Almon explains that input-output and regression analysis were once considered rival tools for analysis of the economy. In those days, the constancy of the coefficients seemed a crucial issue in deciding whether or not to use input-output. Today, thanks to the progress in computer hardware and model building technique, regression analysis and input-output complement one another and the constancy of coefficients need be assumed only where we know of no better assumption.

Presents abstracts of articles from the Association of American Geographers in 1940. "The Relations of Some Texas Soils to Their Parent Materials"; "The Historic Indians of Louisiana"; "Louisiana Foods".

The article presents various titles of research papers related to geography by the Association of American Geographers. Some of papers included are "The General Magnetic Survey of the Earth," by L.A. Bauer, "Land Sculpturing in Arid Lands with Observations from Northeastern Africa," by W.H. Hobbs, "The Platforms of Barrier Coral Reefs," by T. Wayland Vaughan, "Botanical Phenomena and the Problem of Coastal Subsidence," by D.W. Johnson, "Characteristics of the Mississippi Delta in the Light of Comparative Studies of Some Old-World Deltas," by E.W. Shaw.

The Operations Research Society of America/Transportation Science Section's (ORSA/TSS) Workshop "Automated Techniques for Scheduling of Vehicle Operators for Urban Public Transportation Services," seals with the development and application of automated techniques for the scheduling of vehicle operators for urban public transportation services. The Urban Mass Transportation Administration, American Transit Association, and Union Internationale des Transports Publics are cooperating with ORSA/TSS to assure the workshop's success. Authors are invited to propose papers dealing principally with the following areas, heuristic and mathematical programming approaches to the assignment of vehicle operators; strategies for crew rotation schedules; interactive computer methods; reviews of implementations of automated scheduling systems; costs and benefits of automated techniques; and comparisons with manual scheduling techniques. Short abstracts should reach by November 1, 1974 and full manuscripts by January 1, 1975.

The objectives of this paper are threefold. First, it traces briefly the use of the comparative method La sociology. It documents that what is currently called 'cross-national research' is an interest that has antecedents running back for at least a century in a great variety of field. Secondly, the paper argues for a closer interplay between sociological theory construction and cross-national data. Because current sociological theory is exceedingly culture-bound, basing its propositions largely on data derived from modern American and Western European societies, the need for testing hypotheses within truly cross-cultural settings is most timely and urgent. Thirdly, the paper delineates three major methodological problems in cross-national research. These problems include (I) the requirement of equivalence of meaning, (2) the requirement of concept equivalence, and (3) the requirement of equivalence of cultural variability. It concludes with a recommendation for furthering interest in cross-national research in rural sociology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts both to ‘bring up to date’ the author's conception of social stratification as set forth in two previous general papers written in 1940 and 1953, and to broaden the field of consideration by giving special attention to the forces pressing toward equality in various respects, as well as the bases of inequality, The position taken is that the erosion of the legitimacy of the traditional bases of inequality has brought to a new level of prominence value-commitment to an essential equality of status of all members of modern societal communities. Inequalities, among units of societal structure which are essential in such fields as economic productivity, authority and power, and culturally based competence, must be justified in terms of their contribution to societal functioning. The balancing of the respects in which all members of the societal community and many of its collective subunits must be held to be equal with the imperatives of inequality constitutes one of the primary foci of the problem of integration in modern society. A few suggestions about the mechanisms by which this integrative process can operate are presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This section provides information on congresses and conventions related to sociology in 1963 and 1964. The Seventh Latin American Congress of sociology will be held in Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogota, Colombia on July 14-19, 1964. The congress will be sponsored by the Colombian sociological association. Four specific themes will be discussed: sociology and the national planning; sociology of the agrarian transformations; sociology of the urban and industrial transformations and sociology of education. This section also presents abstracts of papers presented at the Fifty-Eight Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Los Angeles, California on August 26-29, 1963. The papers included were Roman Catholicism and Social Change in Latin America: From Church to Sect, by Ivan A. Vallier, and Religion and Social Change: The Third State in the Application of the Weber Thesis, by Milton Singer. Abstracts of papers delivered at the Twenty-third Annual meeting of the Sociology for the Scientific Study of Religion held in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 25-26, 1963, are also presented in this section. The theme of the annual meeting was New Knowledge on Moral and Mystical Dimensions of Religion.

Minority groups differ from one another, among other things, in the extent to which they are integrated into or apart from the societies to which they belong. The extent of this integration or apartness is reflected in the various ways in which the minorities differ from the rest of the population, such as in the effect of economic class upon voting. No minority group is ever completely integrated into its society, for complete integration is tantamount to the extinction of group identity. No minority group is ever completely apart, for the term "minority" implies the existence of a majority with which the minority forms a common society. The dimension of integration-apartness is related to but not identical with the dimension of assimilation. Assimilation refers to the replacement or modification of group characteristics as a consequence of out-group contacts. Integration refers to the extent a minority actually forms a part of the body politic of its society. Thus, German "non-Aryan" Christians were fully assimilated but, in the Third Reich, certainly not integrated into the German society. In general, the term "integration" is applicable at various levels of analysis. We talk of the integration of individuals into groupings, the integration of these groupings into further units, and the integration of these into larger units in turn. In the case of our study, individuals are more or less integrated into their respective minority groups, and these in turn are more or less integrated into their respective societies. We are concerned in this paper with developing a measure for the degree of integration of minority groups into their societies. The basic proposition of this paper is: The more apart a minority group is from its society, the more will it differ from that society as a whole in the effect of economic class upon voting. An analysis of the voting of two minorities in Central Europe illustrates the above proposition. This is followed by comments on minority group voting in the United States and Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the announcement of a joint meeting of the Society for Investigative Dermatology and the European Society for Dermatological Research from May 17 through May 19, 1972. The purpose of this meeting will be to serve as a forum for the presentation of original dermatological research papers. Twelve minutes will be allotted per paper. All presentations must be in English. Simultaneous translation will not be provided. The program will be selected by a joint program committee of the two sponsoring Societies. The article also announces that the Third World Congress of the International Society of Tropical Dermatology will be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on September 13-18, 1974.

The article presents information related to the Southwestern Social Science Association. Professor J. Linus Glanville, Second Vice-President of the Association, at Dallas, died on November 18. Glanville was one of the southwest's outstanding historical scholars and has been an active supporter of the Association for many years. The Executive Council of the Association announced that the 1948 meeting will be held at the Baker Hotel in Dallas, on March 26-27. The Executive Council will hold its preliminary session on the evening of March 25. Five new panel sections have been selected for the 1948 meeting of the Southwestern Sociological Society. Members of the society who will have projects for review in the spring are asked to advise the section chairman in whose panel the papers might appear. Society members are also asked to inform section chairmen if they are aware of possible papers from other members of their departments or other members of their faculties. Section chairmen are particularly interested in giving scholars who have recently moved into the Southwest full opportunity to participate in these sessions.

The article presents the program for the annual meeting of the Phycological Society of America at the Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. The meeting will be held from June 16-22, 1974. The chairman of the program is Norma J. Lang. A field trip is scheduled on June 15, 1974. Researchers Dean W. Blinn and Gerald W. Prescott will lead the field trip. All sessions of the program at which contributed papers are presented are joint sessions of the Phycological Society of America and the Phycological Section of the Botanical Society of America.

This paper discusses recent speculation concerning the normative bond which ties the lower class to the present structure of British society. It focuses on the assertions by some theorists that the normative opposition which can arise 'spontaneously' within the lower class is inherently limited in scope, and that any future class based movements of a radical kind depend on the action of agencies 'external' to the lower class. Some preliminary results are presented from a recent survey of council tenants in Barking, East London, some of whom were on rent strike. This evidence reveals the existence of attitudes 'deviant' to dominant values concerning the ownership and rights of property. In conclusion, the nature of lower class normative opposition is reassessed and it is suggested that the lower class are not as conceptually restricted as is often suggested, and that future possibilities of radical action do not necessarily depend on the activities of the Labour Party or trade unions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the program for the annual meeting of the Phycological Society of America. The meeting will be held at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, in Canada, from June 20-24, 1971. The chairmen of the program will be Harold C. Bold and Louis Druehl. All sessions of the program at which contributed papers, lectures and the symposium are presented are scheduled as joint sessions of the Phycological Society of America, the Phycological Section of the Canadian Botanical Association and the Phycological Section of the Botanical Society of America.

The writings of Charles Louis Joseph de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu, eighteenth century French nobleman, concerning the effects of the physical environment upon societies and the political systems produced by it, have been widely interpreted as being environmentalistic or deterministic, This paper examines the portions of his work which treat of the roles played by the physical environment and the non-physical societal attributes such as customs, manners, morals, arid tradition, which, when combined, produce a particular political or governmental System. From the comparison of Montesquieu's political-geographic views with the basic tenets of possibilism comes the finding that his theory of political geography is more properly interpreted as being possibilistic rather than environmentalistic or deterministic.

Presents an excerpt of the paper on geographical and historical concepts in American history read at Plenary Session 56th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Dallas, Texas.

The core problems of sociological and philosophical theories of knowledge remain insoluble and unrelated as long as both theories start from static models. The problems can be solved, and the respective theories related to each other, without undue difficulties if the acquisition of knowledge is conceptualized as a long-term process which takes place within societies also considered as long-term processes. This approach has the added advantage of being in closer agreement with the evidence. The paper indicates what needs to be unlearned and what to be learned in order to prepare the way for such a unified theoretical framework which can serve as a guide to, and which can be in turn corrected by, empirical sociological studies of all types of knowledge, scientific and practical as well as non-scientific or ideological. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tries to utilize the cross-cultural material presented by G. P. Murdock in the Ethnographic Atlas to analyse the concomitants of differences in the system of inheritance, particularly with respect to the contrast between Africa and Eurasia. In the major Eurasian societies property tends to be distributed directly, from parents to children of both sexes (i.e. by diverging devolution); in Africa property largely devolves between persons of the same sex, laterally as well as lineally. An attempt is made to show the distribution of diverging devolution and its association with the payment of dowry, with monogamy, with in-marriage of various sorts, and with kin terms that differentiate the nuclear family from more distant kin. The tight control of property represented by diverging devolution is in turn seen as .deriving from the intensive exploitation of resources which is also linked to the growth of complex political institutions. These associations are tested and held to be established. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the text of a paper given by British Civil Service Commission chief psychologist E. Anstey to the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society on April 2, 1966, which deals with entrants to the civil service. A new entrant to the Civil Service must first give satisfaction in the basic grade; in the Administrative Class this is Assistant Principal, in the Executive Class it is (junior) Executive Officer, in the Diplomatic Service it is Third Secretary. If he survives the two or three year period of initial probation, he is almost certain in due course to earn promotion to the next grade. The primary objective in selection, however, is to identify candidates likely to do well eventually in the main career grade, at least two grades above the basic grade (Assistant Secretary, Senior Executive Officer, or Counsellor). If the new entrant fails to reach this main career grade or does badly in it, he must be regarded ultimately as a failure. Both short and long term criteria are therefore essential. One could classify the entrants roughly into three groups. Outstanding, who has surpassed the main career grade. Normal success, who has done well in the main career grade, and comparative Failure, who has failed to reach the main career grade. Progress on this three-point scale would seem perhaps the most relevant criterion.

This paper reports a more systematic study of the relationship between fraternity membership and mobility aspirations. Controls for relevant social background variables (income, education, and religious identification) are added so that a better indication of the true relationship between aspirations and fraternity membership can be made. Based on the findings of Levine and Sussmann and those of Jackson and Winkler, it is hypothesized that the higher one's mobility aspirations, the more likely one is to join a fraternity. A caveat must be interjected here. It is not assumed that only social mobility aspirations determine whether or not one joins a fraternity. Related research by the author indicates that other variables, especially peer and familial pressures, are very important in determining membership in fraternities. What is attempted here is an analysis which focuses on one small part of the membership process so as to shed some light on a hitherto neglected research area, viz., the relationship between mobility aspirations and fraternity membership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article deals with conflicts in contemporary Yugoslav society. The reader who studies the methodologically rather heterogeneous and detailed papers on conflicts in Yugoslav society ought to have in mind the basic frame of reference that explains the whole. The author is referring to the fact that Yugoslav was constituted as the result of a revolutionary movement. Although that happened in 1940s, the manner of her origin still essentially determined the character of her existence. The dominant problem that extends throughout this entire period is how to institutionalize the revolutionary movement in such a way that it does not lose its authentic character. With regard to the historical experience of revolutionary societies this question is perhaps absurd, and the aspirations expressed in a positive response appear, perhaps, utopian. The institutionalization of revolutionary movements has usually ended in terror or in the creation of all-powerful systems that liquidated the very carriers of the revolutionary movements. The aspirations to institutionalize and conserve the authentic revolutionary movement are manifested in the constant effort to avoid terror and counterrevolution, or as Yugoslav activists usually say since 1948, to avoid Stalinism and petty bourgeois elements. Yugoslav social practice oscillates between these boundary conditions: in certain phases of the development cycle it approaches very closely liberal, and in other phases Stalinist, social characteristics.

Features a meeting that marks the close of the fiftieth anniversary of the Association of American Geographers. Implications of the high quality of papers and discussion for the growth of the field and of the society; Concern of the founders of the society; Impact of the association around a common purpose for the development of the field.

The article presents information that the program of the 50th anniversary meeting of the Association of American Geographers will be held on April 11-15, 1954 at the University of Pennsylvania and the Penn-Sherwood Hotel Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Members having professional material to exhibit would have to communicate with university of California. The program committee appointed by the Council is instructed by it to arrange a program of invited papers suitable for the fiftieth anniversary meetings.

The article reports that the problem with which this paper is concerned is Homey's hypothesis which states that "the basis of anxiety usually lies in hostile impulses. For the purposes of the research this may be stated in correlation language as a hypothesis asserting a significant association between hostility and anxiety. That Homey views her conceptual analysis of anxiety as being different from Sigmund Freud's analysis is suggested by her statement that "the frequently with which anxiety is generated by sexual impulses is largely dependent on the existing cultural attitude towards sexuality.

The article presents summery to a paper that was delivered in the fifty-first and fifty-second annual meeting of the American Sociological Society. The paper is on the social sources of Dutch vertical pluralism as compared with selected contemporary American socio-religious conditions. Dutch society has four main subdivisions, the Roman Catholic, Protestant, humanistic and neutral. Each has a different religious-philosophical orientation, so that each maintains separate organizations in many areas of economic, political and social life. The pattern of vertical pluralism called the verzuiling effectively separates many of those who hold different religious and political views from one another and has many other latent and manifest consequences.

The article discusses the summery to a paper that was delivered in the fifty-first and fifty-second annual meeting of the American Sociological Society. The paper discusses the four identifiable dimensions, herein called the experiential, the behavioral, the ideological and the ethical. The experiential dimension bears on what the society defines as religious feeling or experiences, the behavioral has to do with religious practices, the ideological with religious belief and the ethical with the attitudinal and action consequences of experience, practice and belief.

The article presents information on proceedings of the Clinical Section of the Society of Analytical psychology in London, England from October 1959 to June 1960. On February 1, 1960, R. Gordon presented his research paper "Reflections on the Existence of a Death Instinct and its Relation to the Self." On March 14-21, 1960, J. Jacobi held discussion on his research paper "The Case of a Young Engineer."

The following four papers are modified versions of papers delivered in a symposium titled "The Role of Financial Compensation in Managerial Motivation" held during the Spring, 1965 meetings of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Dunnette presents an instrumental model of managerial motivation and discusses its implications for research on the motivational effects of compensation. He also reviews research related to Preferences (motives) most often found to be salient for managers. Lawler summarizes previous research on the effects of secret salary policies on manager satisfaction and presents results of another recent study showing that policies of pay secrecy have several costs not generally recognized. Secrecy apparently blurs managers' perceptions of what others earn; they overestimate the salaries of peers and of subordinates and this can lead to greater pay dissatisfaction and the belief that job performance is rather unimportant in determining pay. Weick reviews the psychological literature bearing on the effects of insufficient rewards on the intensity of effort. He reviews evidence in support of the relationship, postulates several properties of experimental procedures to explain the effects, and suggests that propositions from frustration or cue-utilization theory may afford the most parsimonious explanation of the relationship. Finally, Opsahl provides an overview of current, knowledge about managerial compensation and its effect on managerial job behavior, and suggests areas in need of further intensive research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Displays illustrating papers and graphic expositions not correlated with sessions have become an integral part of annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers. Exhibits at Cambridge, Massachusetts accented physical geography rather more and human geography rather less than has been the case in recent preceding years. In a number of cases comparable maps of physical and human phenomena were displayed side by side. This appears to indicate a pronounced interest in regional correspondence of phenomena.

Announces the 1974 meeting of the Charles S. Peirce Society. Venue of the meeting; List of participants; Topics to be discussed in the meeting, which includes the paper 'James on Meaning and Significance,' by philosopher Edward H. Madden.

Applications are being invited for scientific papers to be read before the Section on Dermatology of the American Medical Association meeting on June 20-24, 1971 at Atlantic City, New Jersey. Moreover, there will be two meetings of the Society for Investigative Dermatology Inc. in the year 1971. The spring meeting will be on May 1, 1971 and the thirty-second annual meeting will be held on June 18-20, 1971. The formation of the European Society for Dermatological Research has also been announced. The objective of the society is the promotion of research related to skin and its disease through the application of methods of natural sciences.

The article presents information on proceedings of the clinical section of the Society of Analytical Psychology during the year 1955-56. On October 3, 1955, there will be a discussion on the topic "Symbolic Transformation and Theories of Object Relations," by M. Jackson. R. Hobson is going to speak on the topic "Symbolism and "Synthetic Analysis" in Adolescence," on November 7, 1955. K. Lambert will speak on his research paper "Some Aspects of the Homosexual Transference With Special Reference to the Analysis of a Single Session."

Focuses on the importance of enlarged international contacts for the Association of American Geographers in the U.S. Significance of first-hand reports on geographers and geography in a session in a meeting; Presentation of a paper on China; Invitation for a Russian geographer to attend the meeting.

This article presents information on the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research that will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Sheraton-Plaza Hotel, Copley Square from November 9th through 12th, 1972. Information regarding submission of papers and deadline for abstracts may be obtained from Barry M. Shmavonian, Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, Henry Avenue, Philadelphia.