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The article presents a review of the behavioral ideology in Great Britain and attempts to uncover the underlying factors that formed the basis in which behavioralism operated. In the study, the author approached the behavioral movement as an "ideal type." He expresses his belief that there is a need to deal with eras and movements as if they had a collective, condensible character.

The article discusses Scottish nationalism from the 1920s through the 1960s. The role that nationalism plays within political parties in Scotland, including in the Scottish Nationalist Party (S.N.P), the Conservative Party and the Scottish Labour Party, is discussed. The relationship between elections in Scotland and the decentralization of Great Britain's government is also discussed. An overview of the political attitudes of Scottish legislators, including their putative similar perspectives to those of African nationalists, is provided.

It is well known that British and American legal and health professions have established many different modes of dealing with drug addiction problems. Presumably, differences in treatment of the addict are also reflected in public attitudes about addiction and addicted individuals. It seems reasonable to assume that public attitudes would also differ regarding individuals who smoke marijuana. The purpose of this survey was to determine the nature of British and American attitudes about marijuana smokers. It was hypothesized that British citizens would tend to be more tolerant of the marijuana user, would be less socially rejecting, more inclined to view their behavior as a medical problem with physical determinants than American citizens. In order to identify differences and similarities between British and American views of marijuana users, samples of students flora these countries were asked to complete an attitude questionnaire that sampled views of etiology, treatment, and personal reactions to people who smoke marijuana. Comparisons were also made between users and nonusers of marijuana in the two cultural samples in order to isolate attitudes within these subgroups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a summary and evaluation of recent studies in attitudes towards war in the U.S. While most studies related to college students there were also tests of high school students and of other groups. In general, college students tested before the entrance of the U.S. into the war were mildly pacifistic or strongly pacifistic. Social scientist R.G. Kuhlen used a different approach and gave five tests of attitudes toward various countries during a period of one year beginning in December 1939. Tests called for countries to be placed in five groups ranging from those most approved, which rated + 20 to those most disapproved, which rated - 20. The most disapproved countries like Germany, Japan, Russia, Italy and Spain showed slight change during the period, though disapproval of Japan increased while that of Russia decreased. Foreign countries that most approved war, like Canada, Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Great Britain and Switzerland, shifted with fortunes of war. Great Britain dropped steadily until the early summer of 1940 when it's rating was 5.4 but by late November 1940 after the German air blitz on London, England, the rating stood at 14.

The article discusses the morality in Great Britain which involve the mid-Victorian's attitudes toward the mystery, daemonic, and the irrational. The mid-Victorian attitude toward mystery, the daemonic, and the irrational, and the change which this attitude represented from the attitude of earlier Romantics was concisely and precisely expressed by Matthew Arnold in his letter written in 1865.

Rural depopulation is a world phenomenon associated with industrialization. A great many factors are involved. The standards of providing a variety of public utility services and extending social organizations in villages with persistently decreasing population are compared with those in villages of increasing population. The attitudes of residents in villages where population has persisted for a long time differ considerably from those of people of the "outside world," and in these villages little interest is taken in local government, education, or the organization of local social activities. Employer-employee relationships are often strained. Many reasons contribute to the initial decision to leave the home in the country. No nation in the world has a higher proportion of paid workers in agriculture than the United Kingdom. This gives workers greater mobility and, since there are fewer owner-occupied holdings, less chance of promotion. Once emigration has begun, it tends to generate its own momentum-fewer people can support fewer services, and fewer services will tend to make the area less attractive. Mechanization would have created unemployment without the substantial rural depopulation, but the rate of loss today is felt to be out of proportion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A cross-cultural comparison was made between Dogmatism scores of British and Hong Kong Chinese students. The mean D score of Hong Kong subjects was significantly higher than the mean score of British subjects. It is suggested that Hong Kong subjects may be more closed-minded than British subjects, or they may be more acquiescent. For Chinese-English bilingual subjects the mean score on a Chinese translation of the D scale was significantly higher than the mean score on the English language scale. This last finding is considered to have important implications for cross-cultural measurement using verbal instruments, and it may also be relevant to studies in linguistic relativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]