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The XVIIth International Congress of Applied Psychology will be held from July 25-30, 1971 in Liege, Belgium. A limited number of free papers can still be accepted, interested authors should contact the Congress Secretariat. The provisional program of about thirty pages, containing full details, will be sent on demand, free of charge and without obligation, together with a registration form, from the Congress Secretariat.

The Second World Congress of Sociology will be organized by the International Sociological Association (ISA) under the auspices of UNESCO from August 24 to September 1, 1953 in the city of Liege, Belgium. Sociologists of all countries of the world, professors, research workers and students, are cordially invited to take part in this Congress and are asked to contact the ISA Secretariat for registration and detailed information. The Congress will be centered on the presentation and discussion of papers in two major fields including social stratification and social mobility and intergroup conflicts and their mediation. It will also include important discussions of recent development in sociological research and of the problems relating to the professional activities and responsibilities of sociologists. All papers and reports to be prepared for the Congress will be duplicated and distributed in advance and will be presented by general reporters to be followed by prepared discussants for each section or sub-section.

The article focuses on the negotiations of the Franco-Belgium military accord of 1920. The military relations of France and Belgium were of utmost importance because their joint power could be used as a defense against Germany. When the Franco-Belgium military accord was signed on October 27, 1920, it brought with it a storm of protests from anti-militarist Socialists like Flemings and others. With the increasing intensity of the protests, the accord was cancelled and it was decided that a policy which is solely and exclusively Belgian was required to govern the military affairs in Belgium.

The paper describes a study covering 409 workers in the assembly factory of a large Belgian automobile company. It was desired to identify the factors which contributed, in both a positive and a negative way, to the attitudes of the men toward their work. The technique adopted was a free, but standardised, interview with each man whilst working on the line with him, the research worker having previously been trained and having worked on the line as an assembler. The data were subjected to an analysis of variance, and factors at work groups lying at the extremes of the distributions are discussed, reasons for their contribution to the total variance being drawn from the interview data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information about an international congress of applied psychology. It states that the XVIIth international congress of applied psychology will be held from July 25-30, 1971 in Liege, Belgium. It also states that a limited number of free papers can still be accepted for the congress. Authors who are interested in submitting their papers can contact the Congress Secretariat. Registration fees for members and non-members of International Association of Applied Psychology are also mentioned in the article.

This paper presents some empirical evidence, for Belgium, the Netherlands and France, on the so-called 'administrative inflation' hypothesis. The hypothesis might be defined as saying that price increases are higher in more concentrated industries, given positive changes in demand and costs. Empirically speaking, it implies that, for a cross-section of industries, wholesale-price changes are a positive function of concentration ratios, for given increases in demand and unit costs. Although any relevant evidence would be an interesting contribution to the present discussion about the Common Market's antitrust policy, the hypothesis has never been confronted-to my knowledge-with data from European Economic Community (E.E.C.) countries. The evidence presented in this paper is limited to the 1958-65 period, because of the difficulty in collecting comparable data form earlier years. As we were more familiar with Belgian data, Belgium was selected as a test case to detetmine the most appropriate empirical specification of the hypothesis. A few changes in Weiss's approach proved to be beneficial and are discussed in section it together with the data and results obtained for Belgium. In section III, results for the Netherlands are compared with the Belgian evidence on the basis of an analysis of covariance. Section IV introduces France while the last section draws some conclusions as to the validity of the hypothesis in a European framework.

This paper attempts to test whether some propositions, explaining the number of children desired by women of urban American settings, are equally valid in explaining those of women of an urban European setting (Louvain urban area, Belgium). Attention focuses on the ‘institutional socialization theory’ which states that differences among Catholic women are to be explained by a difference of degree of exposure to the value system of the Catholic church in their formative years including college education, more specifically to the amount and extent of Catholic education. This theory, however, fails to explain the empirical data. In order to do so, the author elaborates the ‘avoiding status incongruency theory,’ or, positively formulated, the ‘status congruency theory.’ This miniature theory states that if one has a high social status and one is a highly integrated church member, one is seeking also to have a high status in the church by practicing the total church ideology and having, among other things, a large family. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hill's typology of comparative family research is a challenging attempt to classify international, e.g., cross-cultural, research. This paper intends to criticize some details of this classification, particularly concerning methodological issues. The main point stressed here is the problem of the reconceptualization of the research problem for each different country in which the research has to be carried out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Investigators seeking to determine public opinion during the last half of the nineteenth century have too often overlooked the foreign office archives, particularly those of Belgium and Switzerland. The Belgian envoys reported official and other opinions gathered in the usual fashion, but they were expected to be more thorough and discerning than members of other foreign services in reporting opinions of the press. At times, the envoys summarized the opinion of the press and translated excerpts from leading papers, in most cases, however, they enclosed the clippings, being careful to give the name of the journal and the date. As often as they felt it necessary, a note on the political complexion of the journal was added. In addition to the clippings forwarded officially, Baron Lambermont, the most active and distinguished Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, had some of the consuls report press and other opinion to him privately. Realizing the growing influence of the press in the nineteenth century, the Belgian authorities made a special collection of articles. It contains both clippings and copies taken from the periodicals of many countries between 1860 and 1922.

The twenty-seventh International Congress of Applied Psychology will be held from July 25-30, 1971 in Liege, Belgium. A limited number of free papers can still be accepted as of May 1971. Writers should contact the Congress Secretariat in Belgium. Registration fee for International Association of Applied Psychology members is U.S. $36 and $46 for non-members. The provisional program of about thirty pages, containing full details, will be sent on demand, free of charge and without obligation, together with a registration form.

The article focuses on the 17th International Congress of Applied Psychology that will be held between July 25 and 30, 1971 in Liege, Belgium. The article also presents information on conditions for submission of research papers and registration fees. The address for further information is also given. Moreover, the provisional program containing full details of the congress will be sent on demand, together with a registration form from the Congress Secretariat.

The article presents information on the opening of the first American dyestuffs plant by Crompton & Knowles Corp. officials at Tertre Villerot in Belgium. The ceremony was attended by officials including William J. Ferracone, president of the C&K Chemical Group, R. Delmotte, minister for regional development for the Belgian government, Frank J. Graziano, president of C&K, and Harry B. Conant, managing director of Althouse Tertre SA. The article informs that a full range of dyes for the textile, leather and paper industries will be produced by a joint venture of C&K and Societe Carbochemique SA of Tertre, with emphasis on products developed specially for use with man-made fibers.

This paper considers the different groups and positions which formulated problems concerning a revision of the School Pact in Belgium. School Pact is an agreement between three political parties in which an accord is made and directives for the future are noted. The problems which existed in 1958 in relation to education were numerous: the maintenance of the constitutional freedom of education; the place and the recognition of state schools in the entire educational system; the definition of the nature of the official neutral school and the position of religious doctrine and non-confessional ethics therein; the democratization of education. Through the School Pact, the Catholics also accepted the neutrality of state education. To oppose the power of the Catholic Church concerning education, the liberals were forced once again to defend state education regardless of their preference for private initiative in other fields. Between 1958 and 1967, 376 new schools and 1,694 sections were established in the state educational system while 465 Catholic schools and 2,489 sections were absorbed into the subsidy system. In the law of the 29th of May 1959, free choice refers to the choice between a neutral and a confessional school, between religious doctrine and non-confessional moral instruction in all neutral schools.

The author comments on the speech by Father John Meyendorff, chairman of the World Council of Churches' Faith and Order Commission (FOC), which was presented at the FOC's meeting in August 1971 in Louvain, Belgium. The author admired the theological depth and richness of Meyendorff's presentation. He also supported Meyendorff's emphasis on the eucharistic center of unity.

Features the International Congress of Libraries and Documentation Centers held in Brussels, Belgium in September 1955. Organizations that sponsored the congress; Details of reports presented at the congress; Activities that were initiated as part of the event.

This study shows that environmental factors do at times influence human relations in industry, but that satisfactory relations as such can contribute, nevertheless, to industrial peace. Data for the study were acquired in Belgium during the first quarter of 1956. In an effort to create structures which would help to reduce industrial conflict the Belgian government passed the Economic Reorganization Law of 1948 which required the setting up of enterprise councils in every plant employing 50 or more workers. The only significant relationships are those between strikes in 1953 with production and employment levels in 1954 and production in 1954 with strikes in 1956, the correlation being .733 and the chance probability .028. For example, the coal industry is consistently high in strikes and low in production and employment. The human relations approach stresses the patterns of interaction in explaining action or sentiments. It is felt that the major influence which shapes sentiments, and hence industrial peace or conflict, is the nature of the human relations which prevail between labor and management in an industry. Among other things, satisfaction with these councils is in effect satisfaction with a stable structure of labor-management relationships. In other words, satisfactory human relations as such do contribute to industrial peace.

Presents an abstract of the document "International Congress of Libraries and Documentation Centers, Brussels, September 1118,1955," volume II A and B.

Highlights the papers presented during the 23rd International Symposium on Crop Protection held in Gent, Belgium on May 4, 1971 focusing on herbicides in the biosphere. Volume of pesticides used in West Germany every year; Factors that affect herbicide penetration of soil; Speculation on how herbicides might impact on the biosphere.

The article discusses biographic data of several local subsidiary managers. Biographic data was gathered from 130 non-American executives in 27 subsidiaries of 12 U.S. companies in Belgium, France, and Great Britain. The biographic data resulted in some discrepancies with conclusions that are usually gathered from material related to this topic. Among the better educated managers, the expatriates advance faster than the non-American. According to the author, the three most plausible reasons are that the people sent abroad are individuals who have showed rapid upward mobility by virtue of past performance or qualifications, Americans are able to advance faster, or innovations within the firms originate in the U.S. so that U.S. personnel have the experience to transfer the innovations.

Influence exerted by husbands and wives at different stages in the decision process was examined for 25 economic decisions in a convenience sample of Belgian households in which both spouses were questioned. The analysis considers changes in marital roles throughout decision-making and extent of role consensus within families. Implications are discussed in relation to communication strategies as well as for research on household economic behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]