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Reprinted, with minor revisions and additions, from Gene M. Lyons, (Ed.), Social Research and Public Policies, Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1975, with the permission of the publisher. Preparation of this paper has been supported in part by grants from the Russell Sage Foundation and the National Science Foundation Grants Numbers GSOC-7103704-03 and BNS76-23920. An earlier version of this paper was presented to the Visegrad, Hungary, Conference on Social Psychology, May 5–10, 1974.
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