EDITORIAL
To Do
The editor tells you to do a few things, notably pay your dues.
Bill Gabrenya
ARTICLES
Paranjpe's Review of the Pamplona Proceedings:
Some Comments
A cross-culturalist, universalist response to the Anand Paranjpe review
of the Pamplona proceedings volume.
Ype Poortinga
Jan M. H. Van de Koppel, 1939-1997
Obituary to a cross-culturalist.
Ype Poortinga
Megareview: Cultures as Coherent and Cultures as Changing
Review of Gardiner, Mutter, & Kosmitzki, Lives across cultures:
Cross-cultural human development and Kagitcibasi, Family and human
development across cultures: A view from the other side.
Jean S. Phinney
The Psychological Society of South Africe (PsySSA) Third Annual Congress
Durban, South Africa, September 1997
Josephine Naidoo and Andrew Gilbert
Consolidating for the New Milennium:
The 2nd Meeting of the Asian Association of Social Psychology (Kyoto)
James Liu
IACCP AFFAIRS
The March Toward IACCP-98: An Early February Update
A partial list of symposia is presented; special events and Congress
details.
Walter Lonner
History: A Long Time Ago in the Cross-Cultural (Social) Psychology
Newsletter/Bulletin
Triandis claims Cross-Cultural Social Psychology Newsletter is failing,
and an analysis of the current situation.
Editor
Recipients of the APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to the
International Advancement of Psychology
Marsella honored.
Stacey Confer
Recipients of the APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to the
International Advancement of Psychology
Marsella honored.
Stacey Confer
ANNOUNCEMENTS
New Books, Films and Journals
IACCP Announcements
Call for nominations for IACCP officers; Witkin/Okonji Memorial Fund
Awards.
General Announcements
Conferences
INFORUM
INFORUM response form
Copy this form and send it back to the editor.
Index for Volume 31, 1997
About the Cover Photo Contributed by the Editor From left: Bill Gabrenya III, Stephen Fulmer, Ryan Hoffman prepare to help the forest combine with oxygen. Boy Scouting is a cultural element that is found now in most of the world, especially the United States. Jeffrey Hanover (Journal of Social Issues, 1978) attributes the rise of scouting in England and the USA as a response to a turn-of-the-Century concern by the emerging urban middle class that its sons were becoming "sissies". A scout would be "a real boy, not too much like his sister." Scouting would also provide a setting in which middle class men in white collar occupations could validate their masculinity by becoming leaders, "REAL live men-red blooded and righthearted men-BIG men." Yale Magrass (Humanity and Society, 1986) argues that the British General Robert Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts in England in response to a fear that the British Empire was threatened by other world powers and would fall, as did the Roman Empire. Baden-Powel's experience in the Boer War led him to believe that British men had become soft, unfamiliar with nature, and unable to defer gratification. His mystical conception of land as a basis for loyalty to nation, shared by others at the turn of the Century, led him to view the South African Zulu tribe as a model for scouting's outdoors focus. He also evidenced an anti-intraceptive orientation in opposing all forms of sensual pleasure, and early scouting manuals included instructions in how boys could avoid masturbation. I invite readers to draw parallels between the rise of scouting in Anglo cultures to other European social movements in the first half of the Century. |