1959 PROGRAM, PACIFIC SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, SHERATON-PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL 16-18, 1959
THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1959
SECTION I
Chair: Leo G. Reeder, Univ. of California, L.A.
Discussants: Edwin M. Lemert, Univ. of California, Davis; Ralph H. Turner, Univ. of California, LA.
James L. Price, Univ. of Oregon: Research Strategy for Building a Theory of Deviant Behavior
William M. McCord, Stanford University: Some Current Theories of Alcoholism: An Empirical Evaluation
Georges Sabagh, H.F. Dingman, G. Tarjan, and S.W. Wright, Pacific State Hospital, Pomona: Social Class and Ethnic Status of the Mentally Retarded
Robert G. Holloway, Michigan State Univ. and Joel V. Berreman, Univ. of Oregon: A Study of Aspiration and Plans of Negro and White Boys
SECTION II
Chair: Charles B. Spaulding, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
Discussant: Robert Dubin, Univ. of Oregon
Robert A. Ellis, Stanford Univ. and Thomas C. Keedy, San Jose State College: Three Dimensions of Rank: A Study of Academic Prestige
James T. Duke, Univ. of California, L.A.; and Robert M. Gray, Univ. of Utah: Differential Distribution of Satisfaction Among Socio Economic Groups
L. Wesley Wager, Univ. of Washington: Crystallization and Consensus of Intra-Occupational Preferences Toward a Conceptual Framework for Occupational Choice
George C. Myers, Univ. of Washington: A Study of Working High School Students in Suburbia
FRIDAY, APRIL 17 1959
SECTION I
Chair: Richard T. La Piere, Stanford University
Discussant: Sheldon L. Messinger, Bay Area Health Study Berkeley
John M. Foskett, Univ. of Oregon: Differential Influence in Community Affairs
Orrin E. Klapp, Aubrey Wendling, and L. Vincent Padgett, San Diego State: A Comparative Study of Decision-Making in Two Border Cities
Maurice Jackson, Eleanora Peterson, James Bull, Sverre Monsen, and Patricia Richmond, Univ. of California, L.A.: A Novel Approach to the Study of Social Movements
William R. Catton, Jr., Univ. of Washington: Unstated Objectives as a Source of Stress in an Organization
SECTION II
Chair: Richard J. Hill, Univ. of California, L.A.
Discussants: Hanan C. Selvin, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Walter T. Martin, Univ. of Oregon
Santo F. Camilleri, Univ. of Washington: A Case for Systematic Theory and Replications
Robert L. James, Univ. of Alberta: Age and Sex Factors in Relation to Interviewer Success
Curtis R. Miller and Maurice D. Van Arsdol, Jr., Univ. of Southern California: Ethnic Groups and Urban Typologies
Fred Massark, Univ. of California Los Angeles: Methodological Problems in Jewish Population Research
SECTION II
Chair: Robert W. O’Brien, Whittier College
Discussants: Wilson Record, Sacramento State College; Wolfram Eberhard, Univ. of California, Berkeley
Wendell Bell, Univ. of California L.A.: Opinions of the Jamaican Elite Toward the USA and Soviet Union
Frank F. Lee, Univ. of California, Riverside: Social Controls in British Race Relations
John B Edlefsen, State College of Washington: Caste Differentials Among the Muslims of West Pakistan
Joel B. Montague, Jr., State College of Washington: Some Aspects of the Contemporary English Working Class Situation
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Presiding: Carlo L. Lastrucci, San Francisco State College
Greetings: Glenn S. Dumke, President of San Francisco State College
S. Frank Miyamoto, Univ. of Washington: The Social Act: Re-examination of a Concept
SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1959
SECTION I
Chair: Theodore B. Johannis, Jr., Univ. of Oregon
Discussant: Henry Zentner of Kepner, Treogoe and Associates, Pacific Palisades
Stuart C. Dodd and Louise Klein, Univ. of Washington: The concordance Models for Social Influence
Joseph Cohen, Univ. of Washington: The Range of Symbolic Variables in Housing
F. Ivan Nye and Evelyn MacDougall, State College of Washington: The Dependent Variable in Marital Research
JamesM. Rollins and Theodore B. Johannis, Jr., Univ. of Oregon: Decision-Making in the Family
SECTION II
Chair: Edward C. McDonagh, Univ. of Southern California
Discussants: Harold S. Jacoby, The College of Pacific; Norman S. Hayner, Univ. of Washington
Roger Yoshino, Univ. of Arizona and Prodipto Roy, State College of Washington: Assimilation Among the Spokane Indians
Wilfred E. Smith, Brigham Young Univ.: The Urban Threat to Mormon Cultural Norms
Frank W. and Ruth C. Young, San Diego State College: Problems of Structured Research in Rural Mexico
Henry P. Anderson, Univ. of California, Berkeley: Culture ‘Exposure’ and Culture Change: The Bracero Program
