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In India the soc sci press is a product of, & its contributors are primarily members of, the academic community. Apart from its cognitive purpose, the soc sci press enables members of the academic community to further their own interests in terms of promotion through publication. Further the press, which reflects the characteristics of the educated elite in India, tends to adopt a passive attitude to various soc & pol'al issues. The press is mostly owned by the learned societies, U's, faculties, educ'al instit's, etc. Information is presented on editorial arrangements, staff, responsibility for content, & publication & finance. A content analysis of 17 journals for the yr 1964 indicates that the trend of the journals is to publish all kinds of articles, but theoretical articles are in the majority, followed by retrospective coverage articles. Space allocation & internat'l scope are indicated. Re readership & circulation 9 journals reported that they are directed at an academic & professional group of readers, one only at an academic group of readers, 2 only at a professional group of readers, one at an academic & general public, & 4 at all groups of readers. COMM is thus confined to an educated elite & its purpose is mainly cognitive, educ'al, & designed to promote the development & progress of the academic community. E. Weiman.

- Wachstum der Produktivkräfte und Selbstverwaltung + Sammlung von Reden und Aufsätzen Kardeljs über Rolle und Bedeutung der Sozialwissenschaften, das Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Praxis und den Gesellschaftskritizismus in Jugoslawien. Den Schwerpunkt bildet die ideologische Auseinandersetzung mit gesellschaftskritischen Stömungen und ihre theoretische Zuordnung. + - Arbeit und Forschung + - Revolutionäre Praxis und marxistische Erziehung + Behandelte Aspekte: + - Wissenschaft und Praxis

Elite groups, from the point of view of sociological theory, are composed of individuals who are the effective decision-makers and co-ordinators of the social system. These individuals occupy, as Professor Mills has put it, "the command posts" of the institutional hierarchies of modern complex society. Empirical studies of élite groups are concerned with at least three problems. The first is an attempt to discover the principles on which a social system allocates certain types of individuals to the élites, or positions of power, and thereby denies power to others. In all social systems the allocation of these roles is orderly, and supported by a widely held ideology. There need be no correspondence between the ideology held and the realities of power. In most social systems certain biological and social characteristics stand out as putting an individual in a preferred group for recruitment to positions of power. Power is not exercised by youth and rarely by women. Religion, ethnic affiliation, educational experience, social class and other social characteristics may form the basis of preference. Thus a study of preferred social types is an initial step in the analysis of the structure of power.