ABSTRACT
The Self-Anchoring Striving Scale is a survey research technique developed by Hadley Cantril and F. P. Kilpatrick which attempts to locate an individual on a scale in terms of a spectrum of values he is preoccupied or concerned with, and by means of which he evaluates his own life. When looked at from the point of view of “revolution,” then, the domain of political instability in Latin America appears as eclectic as it is unmanageable. Domestic conflict in Latin America empirically distributes itself into two basic clusters of activities: Turmoil and Internal War, which are generally independent of each other, and which can generally be differentiated on the basis of structure, direction, and spontaneity. The strength of this variable in predicting instability is emphasized by Lipset, who claims that the political stability of any given nation depends more on this factor than on its effectiveness in satisfying wants.
