Elite and Technical Progress

Topics: Detailed determination of course of professional career; general characterization of personal occupation; attitude to use of computers in individual areas of the economy and politics, differentiated according to documentation tasks, decision aids and complete acceptance of decision-making; assessment of the possibilities of use of computers and rationalization measures in personal function area; expected conflicts and those possibly already having taken place regarding rationalization in personal activity area; expressive traffic circles; communication habits; sources of technical information; assessment of the social prestige of various occupations; attitude to natural science occupations; judgement on the extent to which the population is informed about technology and politics; expected social consequences of technical progress; openness to innovation; educational goals and primary tasks of the school; significance of one´s own school education for one´s own professional career; judgement on the image of the individual school degrees; attitude to a so-called leisure education; contacts with journalists; memberships; assessment of the loss of power of executives through new technologies; general judgement on the extent to which decision-makers are informed; attitude to technology (scale); social origins.

Demography: age; marital status; number of children; religious denomination; religiousness; political discussion. Interviewer rating: length of interview; date of interview; interruptions of interview. Also encoded was: identification of interviewer.