Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1974

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Gatlin, Douglas S.

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis was to test hypotheses associated with the "two-step flow of communication." The uniqueness of this study rests in the new type of issue used as a data base--public school desegregation. This study relied on a larger effort by Drs. Douglas S. Gatlin, Everett F. Cataldo, and Micheal W. Giles in which over 6,000 respondents from eight Florida counties were interviewed. The extremely narrow context of personal influence and the overwhelming importance of personal experiences in explaining why people change their minds suggest that successful community adjustment to integrated schooling will become a reality only through careful re-evaluation of existing desegregation policy.

Extent

108 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1974.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT13657

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