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Franco Ferrarotti : Social change and social sciences in Italy. The author studies the evolution of the Italian society from the point view of urbanization and industrialization and points out the divorce the traditional structures of this society and the individuals' adaptation to technical civilization. Going further, he makes a critical analysis of research in Italy and suggests some means by which it could contribute ease the irreversible process of the social change in progress.

Remi Clignet and Philip Foster : An example of assimilation : the preeminence of classical studies in the Ivory Coast. The major concern of the study was to indicate some functional consequences of the transfer of a metropolitan system of education to the African context. Findings were based on a 1963 survey of pupils in the examination classes of the different sections and cycles of post-primary education in the Ivory Coast. Gross inequalities in terms of ethnic background, socio-economic status, and geographical origin characterise recruitment patterns into the system as a whole. Fur- ther, differences in social origin as between modern and classical students are paralleled by differential levels of achievement and distinctive variations in their occupational ambitions. The continued adherence to a metropolitan structure of education combined with a heavy emphasis on recruitment by merit is leading to some social correlates observable in France itself. Some tentative judgments are made concerning the relevance of these findings to problems of national unity

Paul Vieille : A Wedding in Iran. The analysis of a wedding ceremony in an important feudal landowner's family in North Iran reveals the reciprocal positions of the various groups of Iranian rural and specifies some of the ways in which function.

Jacques Maitre : A Utilization of algebra in mecanography. The use of Green's criteria to test the validity of Gutmann's scales leads to mecanographical manipulations analysed here from the angle of a finished algebra, isomorphous to the methods employed for sorting. The characteristics of this algebra in turn enable a simplification of practical operations for the treatment of perforated index-cards and provide finally a very fast mecanographical