ABSTRACT
This chapter examines several aspects of Communist Party as opposed to non-Party individuals within the socialist society of Yugoslavia on issues of societal change. It aims to compare the social characteristics or attributes that distinguish Party and non-Party individuals and to compare a number of survey research items relating to issues of societal change across the Party-non-Party sections of the interview sample drawn from the Yugoslav population. Independent variables such as nationality, education, and income affect the basic value patterns that concern problems of societal change more for non-Party than for Communist Party elements in Yugoslav society. In Yugoslavia the League of Communists for all intents and purposes overwhelmingly fills the ranks of the leadership element. The chapter addresses the different attitudinal expression of Party as against non-Party respondents and the varying relevance and impact of certain other variables upon the expression of the attitudes.
