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Roger Girod : Educational systems and social mobility. This study indicates the types of education adopted by children from various social classes in a given European town, and more particularly their choice and development during the decisive periods of their schooling and professional training. The statistical distribution of the pupils varies according to each social class, but on the whole there is a remarkably strong tendency towards social mobility, although the sex of the individuals is also an important factor. This study deals with children aged from 12 to 17 and considers their development from elementary school to specialized studies or their first professional activity.

Haroun Jamous : Connection with stimulus, level of implication and process of experimental influence. There are two ways of interpreting the phenomenon of experimental influence. In this article the author relates the two by introducing a variable : the subject-stimulus link. The existence of a level of implication on the part of the subject can also be supposed, and this factor can be of considerable importance in denning the experimental situation.

Madeleine Guilbert : Recruitement of labour in certain industries in the Paris area. Under a regulation issued in 1945 the government has, in theory, an almost complete monopoly in the recruitement of labour. But in fact recruitement is carried out almost exclusively by unofficial means, and above all by advertisements in the press and through staff already working in a company. A study of the variations in methods of recruitement used in different professions and business concerns is of great interest to the sociologist.

Joachim Marcus-Steiff : A sociological study of consumption. A sociological survey of everyday life, of man at work and at leisure, naturally includes the problems of consumption. This statistical study of consumed goods gives sociological and psycho-sociological information about the consumers. The knowledge of this information can contribute to an understanding of the meaning of the goods.