'PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS ABROAD' SEMINAR REFERENCE LIST

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Personal Effectiveneee eaet" Seminar
Reference List
The following are a selected list of references dealing with the
subjects of the seminar, Panelists are requested to become familiar
with the references indicated by an asterisk and, as tine permits? to
scan the others. The asterisked references will be found in the LAS
Library, 1823 "I" quarters and the remainder in the R and S Library,
2022 R and S Building, where they may be signed out for short periods,
Monday, March 30. Intreducticn to the Course.
*Hall, Edward T. "Orientation and Training in Government for Work
Overseas". Human Organization, Society for Applied Anthroeology, Voi. 15,
PPe 4-10, Spring, 1956, A former Foreign Service Institute anthropologist
discusses the nature of the problem, some recent efforts to solve it, and
gives suggestions for the type of orientation and training needed.
Sayre, Wallace S. and Clarence E. Thurber. Training for Specialized
Mission Personnel. Public Administraticn Service, Chicago, 1952.
A survey of training program ? Section on "intercultural relations"
(p.58 et Algo) is of special interest.
Cleveland, Harlan and G.J. Mangone. The Art of Overseasmanehipe
Syracuse University, 1957. A series of articles by persons Who have
worked overseas and who report on various American enterprises abroad.
Useful in indicating the type and character of American overseas enterprises
especially in regard to American business.
Tuesday, March 31. Factors in Developing Personal Effectiveness Abroad,
*Lederer, William J. and Eugene Burdick. The Ugly American, N.T.
Norton, 1958. A fictionalized accourt of preeumed shortcomings of the
American in overseas work and directions in which 'solutions are to be
found. "A Factual Epilogue" (pp. 271-285) summarizes the main points.
To be used as a target for discussion.
*Cberg? Kalervo. Culture Shock and the Problem of Adjustment to New
Cultural Environments. Foreign Service Institute, Department of State,
N.D. pp. 1-6 (mimeographed)0 An ICA anthropelogist discusses the
phenomena involved in the unsuccessful adjustent of Americans in foreign
societiesh
*Sargent, S. Stanfield and Robert C. Williaeson. Social Psychology.
N.Y. Ronald, 1958. Attention is directed to Chapter 2 "Biological end
Cultural Backgrounds" giving a concise statement of the contributions
of the behavioral sciences to the study of probleem of human relations
in general.
Mangone, Gerard J. New Americans in Old Societies. Yellow Springs,
Ohio. The Antioch Review, Winter, 1958, PP. 393-408. A staff menber of
the Syracuse University "Overseasatanship" school reviews American
activities overseas, the problems involved and suggestions for improving
American relationships abroad,
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Becker? Hower( (ed.). Societies around the World. (Short Editor.)
N.Y. Dryden, 1956, An example of the ehavioral sciences working together
in the analyele of eeveral modern societies. See especially "Haw to
study and understand scelety" (pp. 2-29) and "The Seven Social Sciences"
(pp. 787-796) in addition to any one of the societies analysed?
Van der Post, tell. s. Bar of Shedow. London, Hogarth, 1954,
A natal of Britiah-Japanese relationships in a Japanese prison camp during
World War II. A good exscriple of the use of the novel in approaching the
problens of the seminar,
Wednesday, April le Urderstending Man,
.*Coco, Carlton S. Stanley it, Gam and Joseph B. Birdsell. Races:
a Study of the Problem of Race Formation in Man. Springfield,IlL
Thaeas? 1950. A statement an the meaning of racial differences frcm the
biological viewpoint; includes a short but useful summary of the races of
mon and their distributioe,
*Linton, Ralph, The Tree of Culture, N.Y., Knopf, 1955. A cultural
anthropologist reviews the historical development and interrelations of
The cultures of the world, , Useful in gaining of background data for the
understanling of modern aocieties
*Titiev, Mitch*. The Science of Mono N.Y., Holt, 1954(, Part 1 is
a concise and well illustrated presentation of the major interpretetion
of rean,e relationship to the biolegical world - background material for
understanding Man today,
Coon, Carleton So The Races of Europe. CY. Macmillan, 1939,,
A standard reference on the formation, interrelatione and present
distribution of the racial groups oaurope and the Middle East,
Chapple, Eliot Dismore and Carletoa S. Coon. Principles of Anthro-
pology. N.Y., Holt, 1942, See pages 13-72 for a canprehensive review of
the briolce.cal factors underlying human relations - including the paysiel-
ogy of emotion, conditioning and human relations, and the development of
personality
Muller, Herbert Jo The Loam of History, Harper, 1958 and, The lives
of the Past, Mentor, 1952, A historians interpretation of the meaning of
history with emehasis on the development of the cultures of Western
Civlization.
Coon., Carlton. The Story of Man. Knopf, N.Y., 1954. The general
development of culture history fron earliest times an a world wide basis,
A Reader in General Anthropology.. N.Yo,
1948. A series of monograeihs on specific societies arranged in order of
increasing complexity of social forme.
Leyburn, JOG. Handbeek of Ethnography. Yale, New Haven, 19310
A list of the tribal and ethnic groups of the world with geographical
locations,
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Thursdey, April 2. Basic Factor!. in Human Motivation and Behavior
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*Benedict, Ruth? Patterns of Culture. Boston, Penguin -9 19460
The anthropological configuration approach to the study of culture?
Sections 1,2,3, 7 and 8 axaaine basic concepts in the science of custae,
the nature of culture and society and the plate of the individual therein,:
*Kluckhohn? Clydeo Mirror for MMn, N.Y., McGraw-Hill, 1949.
An account of the relation between anthropological findings and the
problen of understanding oneself and other-culture persons. See especially
"Personality in Culture" (pp. 196-227).
Mead, Margaret and Rhoda Metraux. The Study of Culture at a Distance.
Chicago, Univ. of Chicago, 1953. The concepts and technics for studying
foreign societies and cultures at a distance; devices useful in training
persennel in the United States?
Gianni, John. The Wars of Men o N.Y. AppletcnaCentury, 1948?
An anthropological approach to understanding man and his society under
the he of: the human animal, social life and customs, structure of
human relationships, patterning and conditioning in culture, the person
and his culture.
Murdock, George P. et. al. Outline of Cultural Materials, Yale,
New Haven, 1950. The materiale of the cultures of the world organised
under caftprehensive headings? A useful checklist for area knowledge of
a foreign aociety, The HuMan Relatiore Area files are organised accord-
ing to the categories presented here.
Redfield, Robert. "How Human Society Operates". In Shapiro, Marry L.
Man, Culture and Society? Oxford, 1956. A s'eestAtatement by the late
University or Chicago anthropologist giving the main outlines of inter-
actions within any human society.
Friday, April 3? The Learning Process,
*Sargent, So Stanfield and Robert C. Williamson, Social Psychology.
N.Y. Renald, 1958. A standard text book on social poychologn See
Part II "Basic Factors in Perceiving ant Learning",
*Hilgard? Ernest R. Theories of Learning (2d ed.), Appleton-Century-
Crofts, 1956. Chapter 14 giros the major points for understanding
social peyeholcgical principles underlying the processes of learning -
important in onreidering the problems of Warning nee orientations in the
foreign society.
Life Magazine. Jano 16, 1950. Tour Eyes do deceive you.
stowing that vision and perception are two different things
mechanical perception of imAges by the eye tmt perception is
process in which the MUM to reality supplied by the eye are
in terms of experience.
Experiment:a
- vision is the
the mental
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Life Megaeine, Feb, 4, 1957, Were does Psychology go frmn here?
A concise 110Vifft4 of the field of peyahelore to be used to further explore
the uses of this behavioral science in regard to the specifie preblems
of the seminar?
Young, Kimballe, eanality and Problems of Adjustment. N.T?
Appletan-Century-Crofts, 1952, AND
Shaffer, Lauranae F, and Edward J. Shoben. The Psycholccir of
Adjustment, %sten, Highton, Mifflin, X956.
The two references above are standard works an the problems of
adjustment included to provide ready references for pursueing the subject
in greater detail, Moab of the theory advanced in such works is based
largely an observations fram American. society?
Newcomb, Theodore M. and Eugene L. Hartley. Readings in Social
Psychology, N.Y? Holt, l9470 A series of papers on pertinent subjects
The readings in VI, no. 1 "Frustration. and Aggression", and II "Memory,
Judgment, perception, motivation as influenced by social conditions"
are eepecially applicable here?
(Note: the above references cover the first week of the course)
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