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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.

This paper presents an international bibliography of sociology of religion.

This article presents a list of papers on sociology of religion, that appeared in the August 01, 1962 issue of the periodical "Social Compass." Some of the books mentioned in the list are "The Personal and the Functional Element in Pastoral Care," by W.M.I. Van Den Ende, "Pastoral Care and Clinical Training in America. Report of a Three Months Visit," by H. Faber and "The Variety of City Churches," by F.A. Shippey.

The article presents a bibliography related to sociology. Among the authors whose papers have been mentioned are A.I. Abell, A.M. Adlerstein, P. Alexandre, Herman Feifel, S.S. Felman, Charles Y. Glock, T. Hora, H. Stuart Hughes, P.E. Johnson, T.W. Klink, William T. Lin, Charles Lucier, S.D. Messing, J. Mills, David O. Moberg, Omar K. Moore, Murray H. Sherman, S.W. Spencer, W. Stark, Robert Tully, Ruth Underhill, Howard M. Vollmer, R.P. Vaughan, Joachim Wach, Goodwin Watson, A.M. Willms, and J.M. Yinger.

This paper highlights results of the work accomplished in the documentation of facts concerned with migration and the sources of information that have been explored and judged useful for Catholic planning and research. In conformity with the aims assigned to it by the statutes of the International Catholic Migration Commission (I.C.M.C.), the I.C.M.C. Information Centre was created in Geneva, Switzerland in 1952. More than 150 periodicals from different countries, particularly from immigration countries, were received regularly in 1953. The best publications on population matters including different aspects of migration have been written for the Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques by eminent professors and population specialists, both French and of other nationalities. From the Catholic point of view, population problems have been considerably elucidated by the eminent Australian economist, now in Oxford, England Colin Clark. The agricultural problem in Venezuela has also been examined from different point of views in the publications of the Instituto Agrario Nacional. Only a few studies on European emigration from the national and economic angle have been published. A curious sociological fact has been noted in the Netherlands concerning the religious composition of emigration groups.

This paper presents a list of books received in the 1970 issue of Social Compass.

This paper reports that at the VIIth World Congress of Sociology, held in Varna, Bulgaria from September 14-19, 1970, a new executive was elected for the Sociology of Religion Research Committee. Professor Norman Birnbaum, Amherst College, Department of Anthropology-Sociology, Amherst, Massachusetts, was elected to succeed the late Professor Le Bras. The section decided to recruit membership as now required under the new Statutes of the International Sociological Association and to plan a conference for September 1972. It was also decided to invite representatives from each country on the committee.

This paper presents the journal Social Compass, a bimonthly review devoted to sociology, sociography, social psychology and statistics issued by appointment of the International Catholic Institute for Social-Ecclesiastical Research in Geneva, Switzerland.