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Relationship between Culture and Youngsters' Formation of Equivalences in Urban and Rural Argentina and in New York City.

Fischer, Sara I. – 1985

This study analyzed the relationship between urban and rural cultures and subjects' selection of attributes and groupings in a task of equivalence formation. Participants were 236 subjects, ages 6, 12, and 17, from rural and urban Argentina and from New York City. Subjects were administered an Equivalence Task consisting of two arrays of stimuli.…

Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries

"On Making Man Modern"--A Review.

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Rivera, William M. – 1971

A. Inkeles' cross-cultural work is reviewed. Inkeles studied young factory workers in six developing countries (Argentina, Chile, India, Israel, Nigeria, and East Pakistan) to determine their "modernity" characteristics versus their "traditional" or rural orientations. The use of the "modern man" thesis in this study,…

Descriptors: Change Agents, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Developing Nations