Changes in Soldier Attitudes

Abstract

to attitude items can be affected by many factors, including sample composition, outdated phrasing, willingness to respond candidly, influences-from other items, administrative procedures, unit or post differences, and likelihood of combat participation.,Restilts of the response comparison suggested several areas of possible similarities and differences in soldier attitudes over the-20 to 25 year period; they also showed how historical comparison can affect the interpretation of responses to these items; A review of the literature dealing with the process of attitude change gave special attention to the dissonance and functional theories of attitude change for possible implication with reference to changing soldier attitudes. Unclassified SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF THIS PAGET(#hAen Data Pntered) 'rhe Human-Resources Research Organization (HunARO) is nonpoi fit' corporation-easablishid in 1969 to conduct research in, the field of ,trai'ilnng and education. It is a confinuaiion of, 7 he-George Washington Ufiiersityf.Humav Resourcea ResearchjOffice. HuniRRO's general purpoee Is t 'ioimprove *humun,, performance, particularly in-organizational, settings, thiough be'.aviorai,,vnd iociil science research, development, and con-su~tation. HumRRCs mission In work performed under Conftract DAHO 19-7 3-C-0004 ilth the Department of the Army is to conduct Fr iarcll in the fields 41 training, imotivation and leadership. The contents of this paper are not to be construed as an 6ff icial Department of th4 Army position, unless so designated by other authorized documents.

Culture and ideology in the English‐speaking Caribbean: a view from Jamaica

“…The notion of ideology employed in this discussion is fundamentally a Marxist one (see Marx 1970;Drucker 1974). The notion of culture as collective practice or practical activity also has a basis in Marx, though it can be found as well in anthropologists of a materialist persuasion such as Malinowski, Julian H. Steward, and, certainly, Sidney Mintz.…”