Date of Award:

5-1955

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Science (MS)

Department:

Sociology and Anthropology

Department name when degree awarded

Sociology

Committee

Not specified

Abstract

The study to be reported in the following pages is an exploratory investigation of the social experiences, adjustments, and attitudes of Iranian students at the Utah State Agricultural College. It was devised as a preliminary, not a terminal, investigation. Two possible avenues of further research were considered when the scope of the study was delimited.

  1. A study of the social experience and adjustment of all foreign students in Logan, irrespective of nationality.
  2. A study of the social experience and adjustment of Iranian students--in the United States and after their return home--irrespective of school attended in the United States.

Both types of study were prohibitively broad and expensive for the present endeavor. But the present study should not be construed as eliminating the need for either--rather does it demand a follow-up for the following reasons:

  1. In an exploratory study only the most tentative hypotheses can be offered. Rigorous demonstration is not possible.
  2. The limited, intensive investigation is based on a sample prohibitively small for statistical analysis.

It will be noted that the areas investigated in this study are those which would be treated in either type of extensive study. Furthermore, hypotheses are suggested for future investigation in both areas.

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