ABSTRACT
The present study was based on concrete statistical data obtained by means of three sample investigations. First, an investigation of 4,824 pupils conducted by the author in grades 3 through 10 at seven Leningrad schools in the 1967/68 school year. Second, a 5 percent sample study of 4,445 tenth-grade graduates who completed Leningrad schools from 1963 through 1967, which was conducted in 1968 by the Sociology Laboratory of the Institute of Ethnography of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) Academy of Sciences and the Leningrad Institute of Finance and Economics under the direction of the author and Candidate of Economic Sciences G. G. Zaitsev. Third, a sample study conducted in 1970 with the participation of the author at seven machine-building plants in Leningrad. The author wishes to take this opportunity to express her deep gratitude to all the colleagues of Sociology Laboratory of the Leningrad Institute of Economics and Finance for their great aid and support in this study.
