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UNCLASSIFIEDODC REPORT BIBLIOGRAPHY SEARCH CONTROL NO. /ZMML7AD-670 017 S/li 15/3IOA STATE UNIV AMES DEPT OF SOCIOLOGY ANDANTHROPOLOGYA COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF COMMUNITY POMER STRUCTURES:A DELINEATION AND COMPARATIVE ANALY5IS OF POWERSTRUCTURES IN FIVE IOWA COMMUNITIES, (U)DESCRIPTIVE NOTE: FINAL REPT,,AUG 67 68P BOMLENJGE M, IBEALGEORGEMe ;KLONGLANiGERALD E, |TAITvJOMN Le 1RLPTo NO. RURAL SOCIOLOGY-5SosCONTRACT:OAHCZO-67-C-0123MONITOR: OCD qb|'$ EUNCLASSIFIED REPORTSUPPLEMENTARY NOTE: SEE ALSO AO0670 016.DLSCRIPTORS: (*SUCIOLOGY, *CIVIL DEFENSE SYS7EMS)oLEADERSHIP, SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOMETRICS,ATTITUDES, DECISION MAKING,PERCEPTIONCPSYCHOLOGY), CIVIL DEFENSE PERSONNEL.POWER9 STATISTICAL ANALYSIS, IOWA (U)ILENTIFIERS: *COMMUNITY POWER STRUCTURES (U)THE lOCAL COMMUNITY IS CONCEPTUALIZED AS A SOCIALSYSTEM, ONE OF THE ELEMENTS OF THE SOCIAL SYSTEM1S SOCIAL PQ*ER, A SOCIAL POWER MODEL IS DEFINEDMWICH MAY eE USED BY LOCAL CIVIL DEFENSE CHANGEAGENTS FOR ANALYZING SOCIAL POWER IN THEIR-4 COMMUNITIES, THE MAJOR CONCEPTS OF THE SOCIALPOQER MODLL ARE SOCIAL PO*ER, AUTHORITY, INFLUENCEsPOWER STRUCTURE, AND POWER ACTORS. THE COMMUNITYMEMaERS WHO HAVE SOCIAL POWER AND AFFECT THECOMmUNITY DECISION-MAKING PROCESS ARE DESIGNATED ASPoOER ACTORS. THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS OF THE MAJORCoNCEPTS ARE STATED AS GENERAL hYPOTHESES. THESSOCIAL POWER MODEL WAS OPERATIONALIZED IN FIVE IOWACOMMUNITIES. THE COMMUNITY POWER ACTORS IN EACHCOMhUNITY WERE INTERVIEWED, THE COMMUNITY ACTORS4 PLRCEIVED THAT SOCIAL POWER ExISTED IN THE COMMUNITY.THE CCMMUNITY POWER ACTORS EXERCISED SOCIAL POWERTO AFFECT THE OUTCOMES OF COMMUNITY ISSVE APEASOTHEY WERE FOUND TO HAVE SIMILAR PERSONAL AND SOCIALCHARACTERISTICS, THE POWER ACTORS HAD A STRUCTUREIN THEIR INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS. THE POWERSTRUiTURES TENDED TO VARY BY ISSUE AREA TO A GRLATEREXTENT AS THE SIZE OF THE COMMUNITY INCREASED. INtiE SMALLER COMM!;NITIES, THE TOP POWER ACTORS TENDEDTO oE HOLDING POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY, WHILE THE TOPPo0ER ACTORS IN TKE LAR6ER COmMUNITIES TENDED TO NOToU)113UNC4 1 AsSIFIED/ZE4ML7