A study was undertaken to gather attitudes of Spanish-speakers toward specific types of Chicano Spanish dialect lexical items. Reactions were randomly taken from 11 Latin American students who attended Southern Illinois University at Carbondale during the 1975 spring semester; 20 Mexican residents of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, who attended English as…

A basic introduction to the history and culture of Haiti is presented. It is designed primarily for American service providers and sponsors and so also discusses the legal problems faced by Haitian entrants in the United States. The information is organized according to the following topics: (1) geography and climate of Haiti, (2) history, (3)…

An American family lived for 12 months in the Spanish province of Galicia as participant observers in the daily performance of the cultural roles and rituals of people living in the city of Santiago de Compostela. Since focus was on the performative dimensions of the culture, 38 people were formally interviewed, along with more than 100 on an…

In this paper, case studies of two successful Japanese businesswomen illustrate how traditional Japanese cultural values and female sex roles have enabled women to succeed in business. These two cases were chosen as representative from a sample of 56. The businesses discussed are in very different sectors of the economy. One is a traditional and…

Sociocultural theorists recognise that cognition is not an individual construction, but is distributed across people as they participate in culturally relevant activities. Thus, rather than being a universal skill, thinking is very much contextually specific, guided by others, and mediated by particular cultural tools and artefacts. Yet there is a…

A cross cultural study of 16-year-olds in Spain and the United States assesses the extent to which open or closed societies effect performance on the Dogmatism Scale, and the Acceptance of Self and Others Attitude Scale. (JH)

Some interesting relationships between food and history -- working women and convenience food, exploration and the importation of new vegetables, reliance on potatoes and Irish emigration -- are suggested to indicate the usefulness of exploring history through eating habits. (JH)

This article is a series of excerpts from 11 papers which the editors requested from foreign colleagues who visited the U.S. Particularily emphasized are the points of difference and similarity between what they see in their own countries and what they see here. (HMV)

Attempts to find exclusively Elizabethan solutions to the human problems in Shakespeare's plays often lead us to deny our own responses. (JH)

This volume traces the historical roots of advertising from the early years of this century, with special emphasis on the role of industrialization and capitalism during the 1920s. Using the words of early practitioners of advertising and business, analyzing the texts of old and contemporary advertisements, making constant reference to the broad…

Data taken in 1970-1971 from three university-trained occupational groups in Sao Paulo's manufacturing industries are used in a path analysis to draw interoccupational comparisons concerning the antecedents of occupational wage differentials. As a whole the analysis illustrates a strategy of comparative occupational analysis. (Author)

The changing role of the physical scientist in society is traced from the first atomic bomb explosion in the New Mexican desert in 1945 to the present. Both the good and bad points of the changes brought upon the world by the rapid development of nuclear energy are discussed. (BT)

Articles in this book cover Puerto Rican history from the Spanish colonization to the present day experience of Puerto Ricans in the United States. Political, social, economic, cultural, and historical issues are addresed by the following authors: Edna Acosta-Belen, Frank Bonilla, Juan Manuel Carrion, Diana Christopulos, Sandra Messinger Cypess,…

One hundred four college students completed the Forty-Item Self-Disclosure Questionnaire (FISDQ) and neuroticism and social desirability subscales from the Comrey Personality Scales. Two weeks later, 76 of them volunteered for a study of handwriting analysis. The handwriting analysis was actually an attempt to obtain a behavioral measure of…

To establish a framework for surveying the bilingual situation in the Netherlands and especially in Friesland, bilingualism is viewed from four angles: linguistically, psycholinguistically, sociolinguistically in the micro-environment (the speaker's community), and sociolinguistically in the macro-environment (the state). The background of…