Do Ideological Differences Have Personal Correlates? A Study of Chilean Labor Leaders at the Local Level*.

The purpose of this paper is to consider how these political and ideological divisions at the national level are reflected among union officials at the local level. Such a question touches on some basic problems in the social psychology of ideologies in a developmental setting: whether individuals from very different socioeconomic backgrounds (e.g., urban vs. rural, upper working vs. lower working class) are differentially susceptible to various ideologies; whether present socioeconomic status and satisfaction with that status are related to accepting different ideologies; whether relations with management and perception of management or views of the purpose and functioning of the union are related to the acceptance of one or another ideology; etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]