1952 PROGRAM, PACIFIC SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION,
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 4-5, 1952
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1952
9:00—10:00 AM – Registration
10:00—12:30 PM – Section I
2:00—4:00 PM – Section II
6:30 PM – Dinner
SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1952
9:30—12:00 PM – Section III
1:30—4:00 PM – Section IV
FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1952
SECTION I
Chair: Joel V. Berreman, Univ. of Oregon
Discussants: Edwin Lemert, Univ. of California Los Angeles; George Korber, Stanford University; Bernard J. Oliver, Antelope Valley Junior College; Ralph L. Beals, Univ. of California Los Angeles
Dennie L. Briggs, U.S.Naval Medical Research Laboratory: Social Characteristics Associated with Ethnocentric Scores of Naval Recruits
Carol L. Stone and Paul H. Landis, Washington State College: Approach to Authoritarianism in Parent-Teenage Relations
James F. Short, Washington State College: A Social Aspect of the Business Cycle Re-examined: Crimes
Robert A. Nisbet, Univ. of California Berkeley: Social Structure and Social Change
SECTION II
Chair: Robert H. Dann, Oregon State College
Discussants: Ralph H. Turner, Univ. of California, Los Angeles; Charles B. Spaulding, Whittier College; Julius A. Jahn, Washington State College; Eshref Shevky, Univ. of California Los Angeles
Richard Conrad, Stanford Univ: Images of Two Adjacent Social Systems with Different Norms: A Comparative Content Analysis of West and East Berlin Newspapers”
L. Wes Wager, Univ of Washington: The Measurement of Job Satisfaction of Professional Nurses”
Howard S. Swanson and John L. Haer, Washington State College: A Methodological note on the Prediction of Some Political Activities
Leo G. Reeder, Washington State College: The Central Area of Chicago: A Reexamination of the Process of Decentralization”
DINNER
Chair: Leonard Broom, Univ. of California Los Angeles
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Paul Wallin, Stanford University: A Test of Two Theories of Idealization
SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1952
SECTION III
Chair: Norman S. Hayner, Univ. of Washington.
Discussants: David K. Brunner, College of the Pacific; Walter T. Martin, Univ. of Oregon; John M. Foskett, Univ. of Oregon; Harvey J. Locke, Univ. of Southern California
Robert E.L. Faris, Univ. of Washington: Violation of Amateur Athletic Principles: A Model of a Type of Social Disorganization
Ruth Riemer, Univ. of California Los Angeles: Social Mobility and Fertility Planning
Edward Gross, Washington State College: The Rule of Primary Controls in Institutional Breakdown
C.W. Topping, Univ. of British Columbia: Methodological Problems in Canadian Studies of Prediction of Marital Success
SECTION IV
Chair: Ray E. Baber, Pomona College
Discussants: Franklin Fearing, Univ. of California Los Angeles; Harold S. Jacoby, College of the Pacific; John A. Rademaker, Williamette Univ.; Alvin H. Scaff, Pomona College
Stuart C Dodd, Univ. of Washington: An Experiment on Rumor
John James, Univ. of Oregon: Communication Channels in a Small Industrial Plant
Scott Greer, Univ. of Southern California, Santa Barbara College: Union Role and Function of Minority Group Leaders
Helen P. Beem, Univ. of Southern California: Predicting Effective and Ineffective Organizations
