Stouffer's classic study of attitudes toward civil liberties is re-examined using education, city size, exposure to mass media news, gender, and occupation as indices of exposure to diversity. (Author/AM)

Part 3 of the NJEA-Gallup survey of the public's attitude toward the public schools deals with the public's feelings about teachers' salaries and general attitudes about the schools. (GB)

Jazz is black music; black man gave this music to the world, and every advancement and major innovation of this music has come from him. This is perhaps the reason that has hindered the unbiased acceptance of jazz into academia. (Author/RJ)

Presents two points of view on feminism--one black and one white. (DM)

Opposition to the Vietnam war has been manifested both in university protest actions and in cross-section public opinion surveys. The protests and disenchantments of the two groups have sharply different characteristics--the findings of this study suggest a distinction between moral criticism of the goals and nature of the war and pragmatic…

Indicates tendencies dangerous to the basic purpose of Black Studies, and identifies four external challeges--imperialism, paternalism, nihilism, and materialism. An internal challenge is considered to be the use of European and Establishment constructs to analyze black reality. (DM)

Examines nine past, present, and future approaches to the study of minorities in American literature. (SW)

A new theory of social impact is proposed and related to prior work. Social influences result from forces operating in a social force field. Influence by either a majority or a minority is a multiplicative function of the strength, immediacy, and number of its members. Conformity and innovation are compared. (Author/RD)

Describes the more interesting findings of a telephone survey of 304 persons in the Milwaukee area, using the 25-item Desegregation Attitude Test. The study demonstrated the persistence of racial prejudice and a higher resistence to desegregation among suburban and less educated respondents. (Author/PGD)

This study attempted to determine if decision rule, majority v consensus, had significant impact on certain hypotheses concerning conflicts in small groups. (Author)

Although individual exceptions exist, the judiciary as a whole has failed in its impartial enforcement of civil rights by displaying the subjective, emotional, and often irrational sort of judgments endemic to homophobia in cases involving gay rights. (Author/EB)

Examines willingness to discuss the issue of abortion. Finds that persons whose opinions are congruent with those of the national majority are more willing to speak to a stranger than are those whose opinions are shared only by a minority. Finds that involvement and knowledge directly influence opinion expression, whereas education and gender…

The balloting procedure whereby candidates are assigned points based upon each voter's ranking can frequently lead to a winner who is not the choice of the majority. The history of the research for a perfect, logical, democratic balloting rule is traced. "Approval voting" is explained. (Author/MLW)

There have been several ways in which sport has been used as a mechanism of public diplomacy. First, the sporting arena provides a setting in which a country can define its aspirations for status or prestige among nations. Second, the nature of competition between countries reflects current diplomatic agreements. Third, the most familiar role of…