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This paper presents the results of a questionnaire study of 700 anglophone and 404 francophone Canadian university and trade school students, dealing with attitudes toward and experience of various premarital sexual intimacies. Factor analysis and step regression analysis procedures were used. A significant increase in reported intercourse experienced by women, particularly among anglophone students, and clear evidence of emergence of a new sexual morality were found. Intimacy attitude indices were best predicted by the conventionality factor among anglophones, and by the religiosity factor among francophones. Intimacy behavior indices were better predicted by relationship factors than by normative factors for both groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The displacement and migration of people has been a significant feature of the post-World War II world. The social relationships of immigrants in the communities in which they are settled present problems of extraordinary importance to social scientists as well as to community leaders. Here is a study of a town in Canada and its relationships with its recent immigrants. This approach appears to yield a better understanding of variations in attitude than the typical survey analysis approach, where it is usual to look for relations between attitudes and age, sex, residence, and similar personal characteristics of the subjects. The argument is supported by the present analysis, which yielded no significant associations between attitude direction and the familiar personal characteristics except educational and income level, and the association between attitude direction and either of those two variables seemed better understood by interpretation in terms of the structure of interaction systems. In summary, the analysis suggests that attitude direction is associated with the control of interaction and with the type and distribution of rewards in the relevant interaction system.

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