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Summary
An interdisciplinary study of various aspects of Tunisian culture.
“Very rich and touching numerous areas of investigation, this book gathers together a mass of information and data. It has the advantage of being researched in Tunisia, and its authors have gone beyond the concrete facts to provide general enlightenment.” — Cultures et développement
“The book represents a study of Tunisian society at a depth and level of scholarly expertise seldom before attained. The individual essays cover a wide spectrum of Tunisian life, ranging from the emancipation of women, to family planning, to social mobility, and the data on these and all the other subjects are impressive. The book is an important and welcome contribution to the field of development in general and, in particular, to the literature on Tunisia covering the period up to 1971, for which it will be a very useful research tool.” — The Middle East Journal
Table of Contents
The Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Section 1. Agriculture
Introduction
Farming in the Lower Medjerda Valley
by Roderic William Dutton
The Adoption of High-Yielding Wheats
by Malcolm J. Purvis
Results of Agricultural Planning in Tunisia 1962–197
by Thomas E. Daves and Herman van Wersch
Section 2. Social Change and Institutions
Introduction
Employment of Women and Social Change
by Lorna Hawker Durrani
Political Generations
by Mark A. Tessler and Mary E. Keppel
Migration and Community
by David E. Stephenson
Rural Markets: Organization and Social Structure
by Russell A. Stone
Urban Planning in Tunis
by Ellen C. Micaud
Section 3. Population and Health
Introduction
Social Class and Impairment of Growth and Health
by H. Boutourline Young
Wheat Fortification: Socioeconomic Factors Influencing Child Development
by Elisabeth Boutourline, Gino Tesi and George R. Kerr
Family Planning and the Problems of Development
by Melvyn Thorne and Joel Montague
Role of a Change Agent in the Process of Introducing Population Education
by Elizabeth Mueller Mahjoub
Section 4. Education and Social Mobility
Introduction
An Attitudinal Portrait of the Modern Worker
by Richard Sack
The Determinants of Earnings: Towards an Improved Model
by John Simmons
Middle-Level Manpower in Tunisia: Socioeconomic Origin, Schooling and Economic Success
by Martin Carnoy, Richard Sack and Hans H. Thias
Intergenerational Change: Some Psychological Consequences of Modernization
