Arab images of the United States and the Soviet Union before and after the June War of 1967
The images of America as held by foreigners have been of great interest to social scientists in the last two decades (Buchanan, 1954; Beals, 1954; Washington, 1956; Bell, 1960). Such interest bearing on the cold war and global rivalries needs no elaboration. Of particular importance are images held by elites in developing nations. Their views are crucial in determining the nature and extent of commitments that their countries will make to the Eastern or the Western centers of power. In this article the images of the United States and the Soviet Union as held by Arab students will be analyzed before and after the June War of 1967. The students in question were studying in this country, and over half of them are in graduate schools. The group as a whole has been ideologically oriented and politically active. Like their counterpart in Europe the Arab students in the United States not only have a powerful organization (the OAS with 10,000 members in 130 chapters) but also have been vocal and influential in affecting decision-making in their homelands. Scores of the alumni of the Organization of Arab Students in recent years have occupied strategic positions in their countries ranging from heads of states to cabinet members, from members of revolutionary councils to ambassadors, and from opposition leaders to high bureaucrats.
Social Mobility and Administrative Behavior
as the next twenty years there will be major discoveries of lawful regularities in the functioning of groups and other social aggregates and systems. It is entirely possible that these discoveries will enable us to build at least partial deductive systems accounting for a large variety of concrete social phenomena in terms of quite simple structures. And in the meantime as well as in that hypothesized future, sociology will continue to enrich and clarify the world of experience for those who know and understand its contributions.
Scandinavian Students' Images of the United States: A Study in Cross-cultural Education
D URING the past two years an investigation of visiting students from Scandinavia has been carried out at the University of Wisconsin. The central purpose of this study was to explore the processes involved in crosscultural interchanges of students and to attempt to arrive at a more adequate understanding of the effects of foreign educational experiences. The following presentation of selected aspects of findings which have emerged from this investigation will center around the students’ perceptions of various major areas of American society. Since many of these perceptions are expressed comparatively, a brief sketch of Scandina-