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This paper is a comparative study of three Pentecostal sects, two in Chile and one in Brazil. Opposing the traditional class system in which they rank low, the Pentecostal sects seek to shape their own structure after an egalitarian model in which all criteria of conventional ranking as practiced by the wider society are rejected. In reality, however, compromise with authoritarian principles seems rather common. Comparison of the three cases shows that the closer a sect comes to the egalitarian model the more its leaders feel the need to validate their authority by seeking supernatural sanctions for their decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article deals with the interrelationships among income distribution, economic growth and social structure in Chile from 1970 to 1973. It focuses on the issue of income redistribution and its implications to economic and social development. The study describes the socio-economic structure of the working population and the general conditions of egalitarian development. The article attempts to identify the factors that determine how much of the national income can be redistributed from the minority to the majority without jeopardizing the possibilities of raising the investment rate.

Agrarian reform has variable effects on its beneficiaries. Some make considerable income progress while others stagnate. A number of factors are involved in this relative success or failure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the vegetation and soils in the South Chilean Islands. South-western Chile is a mountainous region which has an oceanic climate and evergreen rain forest or peat-forming herbaceous vegetation. The hollows at Chepu on Chiloé Island feature woodland dominated by Nothofagus nitida and Tepualia stipularis, which have waterlogged peaty soils of about 60 percent organic content. Meanwhile, on the central uplands of Chiloé Island peat formation still happen mainly in hollows, and Astelia pumila dominates the bog vegetation.

Migration is both a spatial and a temporal phenomenon. The definition of spatial areas and the comparative use of periodic census data are important elements in the coverage of internal migratory movements. The residual method has been widely applied in Latin America, but unreliable vital statistics limit its accuracy and corrective factors must be introduced. The author discusses techniques for ascertaining place of birth, procedures applied to obtain information on out-migrants at specific periods, the distribution of migrants in time and by age (using cohorts and promotions) and other results shown up by migration statistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents information regarding the industrial development in the Concepcion area of Chile. Concepcion has long been Chile's third city and also ranks third in industrial development. Industries in Valparaiso and Santiago are based largely on proximity to labor and markets and include many handicraft factories. Concepcion on the other hand has a high proportion of the comparatively large manufacturing establishments, the origin of which is due not so much to market as to other factors. The Concepcion Area enjoys many advantages for the location of industry that are not found elsewhere in Chile, many of which were taken into consideration when the site of the Huachipato mill was chosen. About 90 per cent or more of the country's coal is produced within a distance of thirty-seven kilometers of the city, an important item in the location of industry when coal was used for generating electricity prior to the advent of hydro-electric power. While the region has many advantages as an industrial center it also has several handicaps, most of which are common to the entire country. Among these is a lack of capital. Much of the present expansion is based on loans from the Export-Import Bank of the U.S. and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

This article describes a theoretical framework for considering rural-urban migration and reports on some findings from a 1966 household survey of seven communities located in a small region of Chile. The basic hypothesis was that the rate of rural-urban migration from each community of a rural region varies positively with its level of differentiation. Differentiation was defined as the degree to which a community is institutionally coupled to the national society. The data from migration histories of persons exposed, between the ages of 12 and 29 over a ten-year period, to the possibility of migration from the survey communities tended to support the hypothesis, particularly when rural-urban moves were made for employment. The evidence was less consistent when moves were made for education. As expected from the theoretical framework, a significant deviation of the rural-urban migration rate from that predicted seems to be accounted for by the variable per capita economic opportunity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article traces the growth of information and documentation services in Chile. The author notes that during the 1950's, Chile's scientific community proposed to the state the creation of a commission to be in charge of assessing the nation's needs for scientific and technological progress. In addition to financial resources, Chile needed information resources, which could support the nation's future scientific and technological commitments. Many university libraries possessed fair holdings and rendered services to the best of their ability, yet in the broader context of Chile's bibliographic system, these centers had not received the attention necessary to make them adequate to support scientific and technological research.

Although most sexually reproducing strains of Rhodochorton purpureum are dioecious, an isolate from chile is monoecious. The tetrasporphyte of the monoecious strain differentiates directly from the fertilized carposgonium as in the dioecious strains but it differs slightly in its development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines the effect of external environmental conditions on the management of business firms in Chile. Responses to changes in the environment; Use of profits to gauge the performance of the firms.