414 SECTIONAL TRANSACTIONS.— J, K. 



Dr. Helen Pallister. — The relation of vocational psychology to social 

 psychology (2.45). 



Vocational psychology and social psychology are closely related since both 

 these branches of psychology frequently deal with data of the same kind. 

 In order to provide adequate vocational guidance or selection, the vocational 

 psychologist must be acquainted with findings concerning a number of 

 factors studied by the social psychologist. Among these factors are : 

 interests and attitudes, especially attitude towards work and the social 

 values of different occupations, intelligence level, educational status, sex 

 differences and age differences. Such factors delimit the field within which 

 the vocational psychologist can function effectively. 



Some of these factors are now being studied. An analysis has been made 

 of empirical data from cards filled in by approximately 1,000 juveniles, 

 14 to 16 years of age, for the Juvenile Employment Bureau of a Scottish 

 industrial city. The factors studied are : vocational preferences of the 

 juveniles, school courses pursued, educational status, intention to attend 

 continuation classes, club membership and interests. The relation of the 

 vocational preferences to these other factors is reported. 



The follow-up of the vocational life of this group will be undertaken and 

 the relation of the occupations obtained to the vocational preferences 

 expressed will be reported in due course. 



Mr. E. L. Trist. — The functional penetration of a social field (3.30). 



A way of overcoming inaccessibility of data in social psychology is for the 

 psychologist himself to play various roles in the community under study. 

 R&les adopted by the investigators in Dundee. An attempt through the 

 utilisation of these rdles to determine empirically the local form of attitudes. 

 On the results of indirect questionnaires constructed on the basis of these 

 local forms, the possibility of mapping, systematically, the attitudinal 

 setting of individuals in different groups. The correlation of the attitudinal 

 setting with the industrial and institutional setting. 



The characteristics of this relationship give a picture of the principal 

 social patterns in the community, alike in terms of behaviour and of economic 

 and cultural structure. The scope of such patterns in Dundee ; differences 

 in flexibility and rigidity, in interdependent and independent functioning. 



Unemployment as a disturbance of the social type of the individual. The 

 influence on reactions to it of some special Dundee patterns. The social 

 elaboration of age and sex as factors imparting different valencies to the 

 situation at different life periods in the two sexes. 



SECTION K.— BOTANY. 



Thursday, September 10. 



Presidential Address by Mr. J. Ramsbottom, O.B.E., on The uses of 

 fungi (10.0). 



Prof. F. E. Fritsch, F.R.S. — The life-cycle of the Lower Brown Alges (1 1.0). 



The communication brings no fresh facts, but presents a somewhat new 

 interpretation of the available data. Consideration is restricted to the 



