1. III. NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS THE NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON THE SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE.
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Moore, Wilbert E.
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CONFERENCES & conventions ,INDUSTRIALIZATION ,SOCIAL impact ,PERSONALITY & motivation - Abstract
The article presents information on the North American conference on the social implications of industrialization and technological change. The conference, sponsored jointly by UNESCO, the United States and Canadian National Commissions for UNESCO, and the University of Chicago, was held in Chicago, Illinois from September 15 to 22, 1960. Twenty-four technical papers prepared and distributed in advance were discussed during the conference. In addition, a series of some twelve working papers surveying the research results for the major regions of the world on the topic of the conference were assembled and distributed to participants by the Research Office of the International Social Science Council. The various aspects of the social implications of industrialization were dealt with quite fully in the technical papers and at the several sessions of the conference. The discussion of the specific social implications of industrialization started with what some would regard as the fundamentals, the human motivation to make constructive innovations. The papers and discussions seem to warrant certain conclusions with regard to research strategies and procedures, on the one hand, and major gaps in reliable knowledge, on the other.
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- 1961