Attitudinal Orientation Research Articles

Black attitudes in prison: A sociological analysis

This study examined attitudes of black inmates at two institutions located in different sections of the United States. The attitudinal dimensions considered were black radicalism, race cohesiveness, class consciousness, the soul orientation, and allegiance to the inmate code. It was determined that despite the regional location of the institutions, there was considerable similarity regarding the relationship of the attitude sets to various pre-prison experiences and background factors, violence in prison, and type of offense. With respect to socialization effects, the nature of the institutional environment appeared to have a major impact upon the inmate's attitudinal orientation. The implications of the findings for the “Importation vs. Functional Adaptation” debate concerning the origins of inmate attitudes and behaviors are discussed.

Japanese Top-Athletes' Attitudes toward Their Sports Careers

The author presents an analysis of the attitudes of the Japanese top-athletes (pros and amateurs) toward their sports careers. Japanese athletes were likely to rate high on the beat orientation (to beat your opponents) in their childhood, but when they had become pros or top amateur athletes, they stressed the best orientation as their primary orientation. There were tendencies that their primary orientation was changed from the beat to the best in their maturity. Japanese athletes were more competitive than Canadian athletes in their attitudinal orientation. The professional athletes were likely to rate higher on the beat than amateurs at both life stages. More than eighty per cent of the athletes were satisfied with their sports careers. Comparing the satisfaction quotient of both amateurs and pros toward their careers, pros were likely to rank high in classification. Since they can make big money and have a high reputation in the society, they seem to be satisfied with their sports careers as occupation. However, the percentage of the pros who have worries about their future life exceeded that of amateurs. More than sixty-five per cent of the total sample were worried about a break in their careers due to injuries, and about their second careers after retirement. Though approximately sixty per cent of the respondents enjoyed their sports careers, the percentage of pros was lower than that of amateurs. In professional sports, athletes are likely to be restricted in freedom or autonomy in their sport activities and sports careers. And this might be one reason of lower enjoyment of the professional athletes.

Toward a Typology of Black Sectarianism as a Response to Racial Stratification

Using as axes strategies of social action and attitudinal orientation this paper develops a four cell typology of Black religious groups in the United States. Each religious type suggested by the typology is analyzed as an alternative response to racial stratification in American society. Factors contributing to evolution between types are also examined, as is an example of a mixed type that eludes simple classification.

Convergence between Own-categories and binocular-rivalry measures of attitudinal direction.

2 quite different indicators of attitudinal orientation were administered to the same set of 211 Ss. Following the suggestions of previous investigators, it was expected that similar attitudinal scores would be obtained from the 2 different types of measures. This expectation held. Significant correlations, in the predicted directions, were found between the two sets of scores.

Attitudinal orientation of first level managers for improvement of municipal service delivery: Experience of training intervention in Kolkata

This paper discusses a program of attitudinal orientation courses provided for functionaries of a large municipal corporation in India. Almost 450 Assistant Managers from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation took part in the training, which was held at the Administrative Training Institute (ATI) of the Government of West Bengal, India.Under the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act, Indian Municipalities/Corporations (Urban Local Bodies) are empowered and entrusted to perform planning, development and governance for the city/ town and to provide services to the citizens. The change in outlook towards the local government reflected in the Act has highlighted the need for greater awareness and a better attitude amongst municipal staff as well as elected representatives towards service delivery. Good governance can be achieved through the overall performance of officials of an organization, provided they possess the necessary knowledge, skills, attitudes and competencies. For historical reasons, knowledge, skills and attitudes amongst officials of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) in India have been traditionally of a low standard. Willingness to perform better in the role of municipal service delivery is not common. Therein lies the need for training for improvement in service delivery, especially for organizations like large municipal corporations and municipalities.

The perceptual base of nonalignment

Almost two-thirds of the nations in the world have chosen not to join either of the two dominant alliance systems-the Communist or the Western. Most of these states, generally known as the third world, are Afro-Asian and their nonalignment signifies freedom from constraints imposed by alliances with major powers (Rossi, 1963). While it is misleading to consider the nonaligned states as a group homogeneous in attitude and behavior, the degree of variation among them is largely an empirical question. This article examines the attitudinal orientation of three Afro-Asian nations India, Egypt, and Indonesia-during the latter 1950s and early 1960s, an important period in the development of nonalignment. Our primary objective is to identify the more general perceptions at the base of this policy. The model of the international system implicit in our analysis is admittedly oversimplified, for the world is more complex than simply major powers and nonaligned states. However, for the purpose of systematic analysis, a parsimonous model is

Structural and attitudinal factors in interpersonal bargaining

Studied in this experiment were the effects of: (1) cooperative vs. competitive bargaining structure; (2) positive vs. negative attitudes; (3) strong vs. weak attitudinal anchoring, upon behavior in a two-person bargaining game. It was hypothesized that where a conflict existed between the structure of the bargaining relationship and the bargainers' attitudinal orientation (i.e., competitive-positive and cooperative-negative), the degree of attitudinal anchoring would determine the mode of intrapersonal conflict resolution and, consequently, the effectiveness of bargaining. Ten pairs of female subjects, randomly assigned to each of the cells of a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial experiment, played a bargaining game for ten trials. The results supported the hypotheses.

Integrative complexity and attitudinal orientation.

Integrative complexity and attitudinal orientation.

The Attitudinal Orientation of the Worker and Accuracy in Predicting Client Behavior

Previous articleNext article No AccessThe Attitudinal Orientation of the Worker and Accuracy in Predicting Client BehaviorHarold L. PlotnickHarold L. Plotnick Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Social Service Review Volume 39, Number 1Mar., 1965 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/641691 Views: 1Total views on this site Copyright 1965 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.