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A conference paper about the history of marketing in Latin America is presented. The author gives a brief account of race and nationality distribution in the region, followed by the effects of the World War I on the area. According to the author, Latin America faces difficulties in industrializing due to its inability to import the necessary machinery.

The article analyzes various papers related to the Latin American demography that were published in different journals. The article "O Brasil em Face do Intercambio Migratorio Internaional," by E. Fischlowitz was published in the September 1968 issue of the journal "Verbum." The article examines the following facts related to Brazil: the decreasing international immigration in Brazil, the increasing internal migration and the increasing emigration of Brazilian people, most of them scientists, engineers and technicians, to other countries. The article "Race and Class in Brazil, 1937-1967: A Re-Assessment: A Review," by A.J.R. Russel-Wood was published in the October 1968 issue of the journal "Race." This article is a review of Donald Pierson's book, "Negroes in Brazil: A Study of Race Contact at Bahia." The paper "A Economic Analysis of Internal Migration in Brazil," by G.S. Sahota was published in the March-April 1968 issue of "The Journal of Political Economy." This paper analyzes interstate migration in Brazil by isolating the factors underlying labor migration. Among the major findings of this study is the fact that internal migration in Brazil is highly responsive to earning differentials.

This article presents information on a center for research on social sciences located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The centre's objective is to conduct research on specific subjects in accordance with general principles, such as, a central theme and recognized importance for the development of Latin America. An extensive plan of co-operation will ensure that research workers and national research institutions are co-ordinated around it. The programming of the research will be permanently related to the central theme in one way or another so as to avoid dispersal of effort and of technical and financial resources. The central theme chosen, to be studied according to these principles, is "Agrarian and Urban Structures in Latin America," the choice being based on scope of the subject, the acuteness and general implications of the agrarian question in all the Latin American countries, and its repercussions on the development process and its tie-up with industrialization.

Four generalizations are made. 1/ Despite the varying interpretations made by the respective authors, previous studies indicate that urban growth in Latin America is caused by both rural-urban migration and a positive rate of urban natural increase. Thus to ascribe Latin American urban growth to a single prime causal factor is a misleading oversimplification. 2/ Net in-migration apparently plays a larger role in determining the rate of growth of large metropolitan centers than is the case with smaller urban areas. 3/ A significant portion of urban growth in a given intercensal period may be attributed to the growth of localities previously too small to be classified as "urban". 4/ Urban natural increase is the weighted sum of the natural increase of in-migrants (after their arrival) and urban natives. Improper recognition of this last point may lead to an overstatement of the relative importance of urban natural increase as a component of urban growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Students of the Brazilian family are very likely to be impressed by a rather unusual flair, which some sociologists have shown for historical reconstructions. As seen in retrospect, especially against the colonial background, the family stands out sharply as a patriarchal, extended, and essentially rural structure of towering dominance. This picture still holds it own during the first half of the nineteenth century, yet becomes somewhat indistinct at the time of the grandfathers and gradually fades away as one approaches the present time. This means that the object of much historical research, the patriarchal family of the landed aristocracy, vanished, but the sociologists' interest in its succeeding forms as well. The Brazilian system, as that of Latin America in general, is largely family-ridden. There is probably not a single major institution in Brazil, which is not to a considerable extent controlled or deflected by family interests. It is true that in areas of heavy foreign immigration, the position of family oligarchies was not strong enough to prevent the rise of a new economic and political elite, but it also is true that the new elite has adopted the same patterns of familism and nepotism which characterized the traditional power structure.