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A team from the Soc SC Res Center of the U of Puerto Rico (PR) spent several days observing & interviewing members of a crowd of 100,000-150,000 persons who had assembled at Sabana Grande in PR to await the reappearance of a Virgin Saint at 11:00 AM, May 25, 1953. Poverty, lack of educ, & widespread illness among the pop are among the conditions which predisposed so many PR'ans to believe in & act upon such a miraculous occurrence, in spite of the fact that the Roman Cath Church did not recognize it. The events served a number of functions for the persons & org's involved - attention & prestige for those directly concerned, econ benefit to the district, etc. 2 other findings were: (1) the miracle & corollary events were separated from most aspects of the concrete day-by-day life (econ, pol'al, educ'al, etc) of the participants, & (2) a decided intertwining between a rather vague religious ideology & a deeply felt personal problem, illness, or infirmity. It is hypo'ed that illness tends to stir the religious ideology into a more active role. K. Geiger.

If minimum changes were made in SES levels, education, Ru-Ur pop balance, which changes are expected to produce lower fertility rates? An area probability sample of 5,500 households was reduced to 471 by using heads of households that were: Ru (N = 278), Ur (N = 104), and Ru residing in cities (N = 89), and also (1) married only once, (2) for at least 9 years, (3) married between 19-29 years of age, (4) reporting their ages between 27-49. 10 variables were studied with a modified factorial design using Keyfitz's t-test. It was found that: (1) education is dominant, higher education results in lower fertility; (2) younger adults show lower fertility behavior; (3) migrants to the city show fertility behavior of Ur adults; (4) migrants to the city approve family limitations more than do either pure Ru or Ur types; & (5) older adults accept contraception more than younger. L. P. Chall.

Se investiga la relación entre las posiciones que ocupan los individuos en la división social del trabajo (categorías socioestructurales) y su comportamiento electoral. Mediante el desarrollo de un modelo teórico de relaciones entre esas dos dimensiones, se analiza la estabilidad del sistema de partidos en España, como quedó definido tras las elecciones de 1986. Los datos provienen de una macro-encuesta realizada por el CIS en marzo de 1988, que permite un tratamiento muy detallado y novedoso de las variables del modelo (situación laboral, ocupación y rama de actividad, por un lado, y recuerdo de voto, por otro). En el análisis se han empleado los residuos ajustados del gi-cuadrado, producto del cruce entre las variables de estructura social y el recuerdo de voto, para determinar la probabilidad de apoyo a los diferentes partidos en cada una de las categorías estructurales. Los resultados confirman la estabilidad del sistema actual de partidos en España.