Explains the relationship between education and protest attitudes by specifying four processes and the conditions under which each operates. Education reduces support for violence by protesters and authorities, and for issues identified with blue-collar groups, but increases opposition to government repression and support for protest among persons…

Liberal humanist approach to a discussion of Henry IV, Part One." Differing position presented by William B. Stone (TE 202 170). (MB)

An analysis of the association of six independent family variables with parent child attitude congruence indicated significant association of measures of family political climate with attitude congruence for all dyads except "mother/son" with "father/son" dyads showing the greatest association. Reasons for the apparent discrepancies were…

Appears also in Elementary English," vol. 48 no. 4 (April 1971), pp. 241-42, 293, and in College English," vol. 32, no. 7 (April 1971), pp. 815-16. (RD)

Appears also in College English," vol. 32, no. 7 (April 1971), pp. 815-16. (RD)

Catholic conservative influence on current American life is viewed from a historical perspective including their participation in major reform movements since the Civil War. Ethnic voting patterns as a reflection of the Catholic viewpoint are discussed in terms of their role in American politics. (PR)

Data from a study of the impacts of the 1972 presidential campaign on voter behavior support previous contentions that higher reliance on mass media for political purposes is associated with more positive orientations toward the political system, but they contradict more recent evidence that greater television reliance evokes political…

Various aspects which contribute to the political activities of adult educators are examined: (1) attitudes toward political activity, (2) efforts undertaken to influence legislation and government policy, and (3) methods by which adult educators have organized themselves to increase their role in political decision making involving adult…

Due to the peculiar nature of news texts, the adoption of a theory of "localisation" rather than conventional translation theories accounts more easily for both the commercial nature and the global scale of news distribution. News texts are global products which are distributed through a localisation process involving not only reception…

The author examines the influence of peer groups on the formation of young people's political orientations and predispositions toward political behavior. Analysis of the findings leads to conclusions about the existence of a "teen culture" in the Soviet Union and the socializing capability of the politically-inspired youth organizations.…

The paper discusses Lenin's attempts to alleviate discrepancies between Marxist philosophy and his own personal activist creed by, first, introducing Hegelian logic into dialectical materialism and, second, by creating an ideology of organizational activity. Lenin the man is examined in order to understand his interpretation of Marx and the gap…

The use of polling is partly responsible for a change in the relationship between government and public opinion. There is a range of public opinion from little or no concern to very intense concern about an issue. Polls translate personal beliefs into collective public opinions, often losing the strong feelings at the one end and the moderate…

Persuasive mass communication is believed to be more likely to reinforce existing opinions than to change them. This study set out to test this hypothesis in the political area by doing the following: isolating attitudinal patterns in a sample of voters; determining if characteristics of the questionnaire statements were systematically related to…

The primary argument of this paper is that student political attitudes are a function of historical and politcal inputs acting on their attitudinal structure. Around 1970 the proportion of students supporting leftist causes reached a peak and began declining. Attitude surveys among students at the University of Oregon in 1970 and at Arizona State…