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Data on the magazine subscription patterns of members of the John Birch Society & the Amer's for Democratic Action were collected & compared. Data originated from a mailquestionaire distributed by each of the org's to samples of the nat'l membership during Jul & Aug, 1965. 650 & 770 usable responses, respectively, were obtained. The extent to which members of both org's subscribe to magazines is very similar. But Birchers prefer fam & household magazines, while ADA members prefer cultural magazines. R's tend to prefer interpretations of pol'al events which are congenial to & reinforce their own. Within each org the better educated & those with Hs occup's were more likely to consider news & pol'al magazines most important. This was also true of the most interested, the most active, & those for whom the John Birch Society or ADA was the most important group membership. 2 Tables. M. Maxfield.

The focus is on the interaction between exposure to daily radio & TV newscasts & the pol'al att's of members of the John Birch Society (JBS) & the Amer's for Democratic Action (ADA). A 'newscast avoidance' hypothesis is presented: pol'al activists' attentiveness to daily newscasts is directly related to their degree of satisfaction with the pol'al developments reported there. A 2nd hypothesis is that TV news coverage is more likely to be avoided than radio newscasts. The levels of attentiveness of 647 John Birchers to TV & 645 of them to radio, & those of 767 ADA to TV & 764 of them to radio were surveyed during the height of the 1964 presidential campaign. Among both groups, daily attentiveness to TV newscasts declined dramatically as dissatisfaction with federal policy increased. Attentiveness to radio newscasts declined less regularly with decreasing satisfaction, & with the more ambivalent R's (those in the middle satisfaction categories), it actually rose. The hyp's were supported by rank orders Y's between 7 levels of satisfaction & 4 levels of attentiveness. The hyp'ed r was strongest among JBS TV watchers (p(.001), declined in strength among ADA TV viewers (p(.01) & radio listeners (p(.05), & trailed off to non-signif among the JBS radio audience, indicating the ameliorative effects of right-wing interpretations of radio news on JBS, but not on ADA, members. These Y's are weaker among women, the middle-aged, & leaders in both org's. The effects of educ & occup are less clear. The degree of pol'al activity among both memberships was also found inversely related to rate of newscast attentiveness, with the exception of the JBS radio newscast audience, where activity & attentiveness were directly related. This suggests that network TV newscasts serve to moderate the att's & activity of both memberships. 2 Tables. M. Maxfield.

Exposure to modernizing institutions such as the school, factory, and city has been found to be associated with the breakdown in traditional values, beliefs, and behaviors in a wide variety of cultural settings. Socioeconomic change has had a similar impact on the late-modernizing Islamic minorities in the USSR. Although patriarchal attitudes and behaviors have persisted in some areas of family life, extensive shifts in family values and approved gender roles have occurred, particularly in the last two decades. These trends parallel those found in nonsocialist settings.

Der Aufsatz behandelt Ausmaß, Tendenzen und Ergebnisse der sowjetischen Politik der Gleichstellung der Nationalitäten in den 70er und 80er Jahren. Anhand der Auswertung des statistischen Materials werden die Bereiche Erziehung, sozialer Status bzw. Beschäftigung, KP-Mitgliedschaft und russischer Bilinguismus Indikatoren für die Position der ethnischen Gruppen. Die Gleichstellungspolitik hat gemischte Resultate erziehlt. Am erfolgreichsten im Abbau ethnischer und religiöser Disparitäten war sie in Perioden ökonomischer Prosperität wie in den 60er Jahren, während durch die Verlangsamung des Wirtschaftswachstums in den 70er Jahren die Ziele der Nationalitätenpolitik in Konflikt mit den Intentionen zur Verbesserung der Wirtschaftsleistung gerieten. BIOst/Hat

Preliminary results from the 1979 Soviet census reveal that non-Slavic minorities make up over a quarter of the populace. Ethnic diversity has been and will remain, at least for the foreseeable future, an important consideration in Soviet policy making. Analysis of nationality trends is thus a key aspect of Western study of Soviet domestic politics. Assessment of Soviet labor force prospects, for example, depends in part on the occupational skills, Russian fluency, and geographical mobility of the Soviets of Muslim heritage in the fast-growing southern tier of the USSR. Soviet military capabilities will be increasingly affected by a rising proportion of Muslims of draft age. In addition, long-term population projections hinge on an evaluation of how rapidly these same groups will exhibit the low fertility associated with demographic modernization.