Anticipating Ideological Conflicts

The ideologies of persons or peoples can best be derived by determining how acceptable or unacceptable certain alternative future states of affairs are to them. The extent of agreement or disagreement regarding desirable futures among peoples of various countries gives a measurement of present and future ideological conflicts. The author, of Columbia University's Department of Sociology, reports on a preliminary study based on these principles and discusses some implications of the approach.1

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