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A study to test the hypothesis that people's notions of ideal relations among nations correspond structurally with their notions of ideal relations among people. Homogeneous Guttman-type scales measuring 8 diff advocated goals of US foreign policy were constructed & paired a priori with homogeneous scales measuring 8 corresponding interpersonal values. These were administered by questionnaire to a random sample of a U Sbody. The matrix of interr's was analyzed according to a multitrait-multimethod model, which permits comparison of predicted is with non-predicted r's. The hypothesis was generally confirmed. In addition, the internat'I goals were found to cluster in 2 groups, interpreted as cooperative & competitive; but these clusters were not well duplicated in the matrix of interpersonal values. AA.

EXAMINATION OF THE EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IDEOLOGY AND SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY REQUIRES THE ANALYSIS OF SYSTEMATIC CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SOVIET DOMESTIC POLITICS AND CHANGING FOREIGN POLICY CONCEPTS. THE NEW THINKING IN SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY ADVOCATED BY MIKHAIL GORBACHEV AND HIS ADVISORS CANNOT BE GRASPED WITHOUT AN UNDERSTANDING OF SOVIET IDEOLOGICAL TERMS OF REFERENCE. NEW THINKING DOES NOT DENOTE DE-IDEOLOGIZATION. RATHER, GORBACHEV'S FOREIGN POLICY EFFORTS INDICATE A MODIFICATION OF THE FUNCTIONS PERFORMED BY IDEOLOGY. THESE MODIFICATIONS HAVE BEEN PROMPTED BY CHANGES IN THE INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND BY A REASSESSMENT OF DOMESTIC PRIORITIES.

Examines various uses and definitions of ideology. Also discusses whether ideology per se is a positive or negative phenomenon. (DCL)

THE DEFINITIONS OF IDEOLOGY AND ITS ROLE OR PLACE DIFFER-SOMETIMES WITHIN AS WELL AS BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT AUTHORS-BUT THAT IS NOT PROBLEMATIC AS LONG AS THE POINT OF EACH ANALYSIS REMAINS CLEAR. A PLURALISM OF CONCEPTIONS OF IDEOLOGY AS OF IDEOLOGIES THEMSELVES, AND OF COMPETING IDEOLOGICAL CLAIMS, CAN BE WORN WITHOUT DRIFTING INTO CONFUSION. IN THE REAL WORLD, AS WELL AS IN THE SEMIDETACHED ACADEMIC ONE, IDEOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE AND DIVISION REMAINS CENTRAL, PARTLY BECAUSE OF THE VARIOUS CLASS AND OTHER LOCATIONS WHICH ARE ASSOCIATED WITH PARTICULAR POLITICAL IDEAS, PARTLY BECAUSE OF THE WAY OUR MINDS WORK. THERE IS NO PROCESS OF INTELLECTUAL CLARIFICATION (OR COGNITIVE HYGIENE) AND NO LARGER MOVEMENT OF SOCIETY WHICH MAKES THE END OF IDEOLOGY A LIKELY OR AN APPEALING PROPECT, EVEN THOUGH WE MAY HAVE POWERFUL AND RATIONAL REASONS FOR WANTING SOME IDEOLOGIES CONSIGNED TO THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY.