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The article responds to the second section of a position paper on social security published by the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD). The claim is discussed that there is no uniform concept of German social security, given its expansion into social work with such benefits as counseling, education, social integration, aid to the underprivileged, and rehabilitation.

The article focuses on the restructuration of immigrant pensions and foreign pension law in West Germany and the procedure in the case of a loss of papers. In particular, the "Fremdrenten- und Auslandsrenten-Gesetz" (FAG; Immigrant Pension and Foreign Pension Law) are discussed. Details outlined include pension insurance for immigrants, supplementary insurance, and the recalculation of insurance benefits.

The article discusses Germany's regulation of Sunday and holiday work, which has long been permitted in hospitality, bar keeping, entertainment, and transportation occupations. The author focuses on such work in industry, specifically in materials' extraction and processing occupations, such as steel and paper mill work. The specific industry qualifications and schedule of such Sunday and holiday work time is explicated from applicable German law.

The article discusses a February 1972 seminar on the theme of "Der Allgemeine Teil des Sozialgesetzbuches" ("The General Section of the Social Security Law Code"). A welcoming address by Dr. Wilhelm Wertenbruch is presented in which he reviews personnel deficits and the need for interdisciplinary approaches. Five speaker presentations follow the welcoming address.

The article presents information about socio-political developments in West Germany in 1962. A discussion about health insurance reforms was held on August 23, 1962 by representatives from trade organizations and employers' associations. West German state support has been requested for mothers whose babies have been harmed as a result of using the drug Contergan. The West German paper industry held a strike in response to employers' refusal to raise wages by 12 percent.

The article reports on a position paper entitled "Social Security in the Industrial Age" from the Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland (EKD - German Protestant Church) based on the prior reform proposals of Dr. Peter Heyde. Key reform suggestions include a special system for people with disabilities, structural expansion of the system of retirement homes, closing gaps in accident and old age insurance, and tying family burden equalization directly to economic development.

The article presents the author's thoughts on the German debate about equalization of the family burden in matters of social insurance premiums and income taxes, based on numbers of household children. The author disputes some figures and propositions on the subject put forward in a paper by the Minister for Family Issues.

The article discusses the reaction of Werner Gerlach in the May 1973 issue of "Die Krankenversicherung" to the Bundesarztekammer (Federation of German Doctors) proposal for an across-the-board increase in the fee structure of the Gebührenordnung für Ärzte (GOÄ - The Standard Fees for Private Physicians). Speaking for German health insurers, Gerlach came out in opposition to the linear fee increase proposal.

The article reports that a congress was held under the auspices of Stuttgart Society, "Arzt und Seelsorge," in West Berlin, West Germany on June 8, 1960. An unanimous resolution was passed that a German C.G. Jung Society should be founded. Among the speakers were theologians, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, physicians, academic psychologists, philosophers and one member of the legal profession. Though most of the speakers were from Germany, there were also four Swiss and two Dutch representatives.

The article presents clarifications of a discussion based on a Bad Godesberg, Germany conference paper presented by Dr. Hartmut Hensen entitled "Die Finanzen der Sozialen Sicherung im Kreislauf der Wirtschaft," which was in the June 1955 issue. An redacted summary of the conversation is presented, followed by an afterword from the paper's author.

The article presents a comparative study of social images in two adjacent social systems, that of East and West Germany. The general method of study used is that of a comparative content analysis of representative and available daily and weekly newspapers published in East and West Berlin. In addition, a pair of non Communist newspapers in the German speaking part of Switzerland is compared with West Berlin papers, and one Communist paper of Switzerland with East Berlin newspapers. The study concludes that both West and East German newspapers present their audiences with two distinct and highly structured social images of their own ideological and other systems. Newspapers in traditionally neutral Switzerland follow closely these two patterns and do not emerge with a differently structured social image. Variations within the sample of West and East Germany exist. Even such a tightly controlled social system as East Germany allows measurable variations in the social image structure. In fact, the magnitude of percentage differences between the two extremes is almost identical for the East and West.

This article examines the currency contracts of U.S. imports from Japan and West Germany in fiscal years 1971 and 1973. These countries are two of the most important trading partners and their currencies have appreciated particularly strongly relative to the dollar during recent years. A sample of 564 U.S. customs invoices was used to establish the currency denomination of contracts for the two countries. The magnitude of the currency-contract effect depends on the proportions of price agreements fixed in the importers' and the exporters' currency. If the price is set in dollars for any U.S. order, changes in exchange rates do not alter the dollar cost of outstanding contracts. It was found that Japanese sellers typically accept prices fixed in dollars, while German exporters set selling prices predominantly in their own currency. For the two fiscal years combined, nearly four-fifths of U.S. imports from Germany were priced in Deutsche marks, while only one-third of all imports from Japan were denominated in yen. The currency-contract effect was calculated for the months following a hypothetical 10 percent devaluation of the dollar. Initially, all imports arriving here would have been contracted prior to the devaluation and all of those with prices in foreign currencies would be increased in dollar value.

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The article presents information about the papers that appeared in the January 2, 1962 issue of the journal "Social Compass." In every national and cultural situation, the relationship between sociology and religion is, in one way or another, of primary importance, the interaction between religion and society assumes, in social living its peculiar and specific forms of expression. The authors from the U.S., England, West Germany and Holland who have collaborated in the present issue of the journal "Social Compass," consider principally the way in which religious and philosophical values take shape in society. Considering the countries that they come from, it is not surprising that these sociologists lay particular stress on the influence that Catholic and Protestant confessions and denominations have on social life. It is in Dutch studies in the sociology of religion especially that the vertical pluralism that conforms to religious and ecclesiastical lines of demarcation, has been subjected to closest analysis.

This article concerns one area of a larger study of social class differences in the life style, values and personalities of German men. The analysis phase of the research is still in progress, and for the purpose of this paper one life style area has been selected to illustrate the methodological approach and the kinds of findings the study is developing. The data for the study are approximately 300 interviews conducted in the various areas of West Germany. One form concentrated on these men's behavior in connection with secondary institutions and leisure time activity--work, church, associations and clubs, politics and government, economic behavior, mass media habits and leisure time activities at home and outside; a second interview form concerned daily routine, family relationships and friendship patterns. Respondents were asked to discuss their family life, the sharing and the division of responsibilities, to describe their wives as individuals, their wives' assets and limitations, and similarly to describe themselves, and their own assets and limitations.

The article presents a "foundation" paper on German health care policy prepared by medical and policy experts under the aegis of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Health care policy goals are reviewed, including illness preventive and curative measures, equal access to facilities and treatment, protective health measures in industry, and health education initiatives.

The article presents a position paper from an Expert Committee of the Gesellschaft für Sozialen Fortschritt e. V. (Society for Social Progress) on the education and continuing education of German corporate trainers, the need and special requirements for whom has grown steadily over time. The composition, findings, and recommendations of that committee are presented in outline form.

The article discusses German labor union desiderata for a new technical college's curriculum that would bridge the gap between the academic and working worlds. The discussion among labor union representatives, scientists, and practitioners arose from plans for a university in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia that would concentrate on departments of engineering and sciences. The summary findings were published in a "Position Paper on the Formation of Ruhr University."

This article discusses various aspects of the role of fiscal and monetary policy in German economic recovery. One of the prerequisites of economic recovery, but by no means the only one, was the restoration of a workable currency. The spectacular increase in production and delivery through legitimate channels of trade and the achievement of substantial price stability in spite of rapid decontrol of prices demonstrate the immediate success of currency reform. From the beginning of the debate on currency reform for Germany it was recognized, however, that restoration of a new, stable money was an important, but by no means the only, contribution currency reform had to make towards German economic rehabilitation and recovery. Other objectives, were restoring incentives to save and channeling scarce funds into capital investments of the highest economic priority. It was also necessary to assure a distribution of incomes and goods which would provide sufficient rewards to farmers and workers for productive efforts and at the same time meet the minimum demands of equity.

The article presents a position paper of the Federal Union of German Employer Associations adopted at its November 1963 congress. Topics covered include employee participation, social partnership, economic and income policies, social security, and employee education. Finally, the employers' stance toward European integration and international cooperation is presented.

This article presents a position paper by the Gesellschaft für Versicherungswissenschaft und -gestaltung e.V., which discusses a draft of a new health insurance law for West Germany that would restrict the authority of self-administration. The society disagrees with this proposal and states that it would force customers to change their member circles.

This paper explores the problem of whether or not the degree of rurality of community of residence affects the career choices of German young people. An affirmative hypothesis was formulated along lines suggested by Upset and supported by researches in the American context. Data were obtained by survey in three regions of West Germany from youngsters at two different levels of schooling and at crucial decision-making points in their career. The social class variable was introduced as a control. It was found that rurality has little effect on the career choices of secondary school students or on the educational choices of elementary school pupils. Rurality does seem to influence the occupational choices of elementary school pupils, especially boys: the pattern of findings lends support to the Upset and Bendix hypothesis that residence differences are greatest for lower-status youths. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Among the many consequences of the arrest by West German authorities of editors of the magazine Der Spiegel for allegedly traitorously revealing state secrets, one was the vociferous reaction of the West German press. Here is an example of the use of content analysis to study press reaction in a case of this kind. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents information about three studies: "Heft 13: Die Neugestaltung des Dorfes," "Heft 17: Die Altersversicherung der bäuerlichen Bervölkerung," and "Heft 25: Verbesserung der Agrarstrukturund Ortsplanung." These three studies belong to an important West German series of monographs dealing with rural social problems. They are sponsored by the society "fur ländliche Sozialfragen" and edited by the well-known agricultural economist W. Abel. Two of the studies are concerned with the serious and much discussed problem of improving the agrarian structure in Western Germany. One factor which influences all these deliberations and gives the agrarian policy at the same time a strong social flavor is the necessity of settling and employing the stream of refugees from Eastern Germany, most of whom come from rural environments. Heft 25 deals with practically the same problems, giving emphasis, however, to the planning idea. The paper read by T. Tröscher contains an interesting map illustrating the need for enlarging small farms, on the one hand, and the actual enlargement projects, as they were in function in 1956-1957.

The article focuses on an article "Social Images in East and West Germany: A Comparative Study of Matched Newspapers in Two Social Systems," by Richard Conrad that was published in the journal "Social Forces." The data of this study come from a content analysis of daily and weekly newspapers in East Berlin, West Berlin, and Switzerland. The papers are matched in pairs in terms of party affiliation, labor orientation, religious orientation, and occupation power. The Swiss sample consists of two non-communists and one Communist newspaper from German-speaking Switzerland. There are few differences in the emphasis on topics of news dispatches, except that military topics get more attention in the West and topics concerning labor rank higher in the East. There are variations in the social image structure within both types of social systems. With respect to the time perspective of Eastern and Western papers, the East press adheres uniformly to a single view of past, present, and future. Western newspapers focus on news from the West far more than the East focuses on its own social system.