Villemez, Wayne J.

The paper integrates the internal colonial model with
the dual labor market perspective. Using data from the
1960 and 1970 Censuses, it assesses the impact of Civil
Rights legislation on the education, income, and occupation
distributions of black males. The findings are that
the increase in blacks with college degrees has resulted
in black males moving at a disproportionately high rate
into upper level occupations such as professional,
technical, management, and administrative occupations.
This may be contributing to the growing inequality of
income among blacks that has been noted in the literature.
It also supports the position that the benefits
from Civil Rights legislation will be greatest for
blacks who were already relatively well off.

This essay develops a conceptual framework accounting for the
potential of humor to enhance social cohesion. A typology of
humor is advanced and the constructed types are successively
related to the respective types of solidarity deriving from the
incidence of humor and the cognitive mechanisms responsible for
the emergent fellow-feeling . Beyond explicating the confederating
influence of humor. this essay explores the effects of three
structural attributes of joking relations upon the nature of
the emergent solidarity; these are, the social status of the wit,
the nature of the vocalized humor, and, the orientation of the
auditors towards their group. The influence of these structural
variables upon the cohering potential of humor is considered.
In the process of formulating a conceptual scheme explicating
the confederating impact of humor as well as assessing the
influence of extraneous elements upon this potential the
findings of previous humor research are appraised in the light
of the advanced argument.

This study focuses on occupational identity of Cuban exile
fishermen in Dade County, Florida, and the strength of this
identity when faced with the Bahamian fishing conflict
(1973-1975). It was hypothesized that this identity would
become stronger because of this conflict. Other hypotheses
predicted differences between perceived and actual fishing
legislation in the United States, pre-revolutionary and
revolutionary Cuba. The same comparison was made with
occupational status. Subjective data was obtained from a
questionnaire administered to fifty fishermen. Strength of
occupational identity was not as strong as expected. Subjective
views on fishing legislation and status did show a
discrepancy with objective data. A number of fishermen conformed
to all hypotheses, and further analyses attempt to
explain the stronger occupational identity of this group.

This represents an analysis of the inter-relationship between political
beliefs and two distinct types of political actions. Data were gathered
from a random sample of college students and nine hypotheses were tested
using tabular and regression analysis. It was found that a direct
relationship does exist between conventional political beliefs and
conventional political actions, and the presence of an inverse relationship
between conventional political beliefs and non-conventional political
actions was also detected. In both cases, an individual's predisposition
toward political change was found to have significant effect upon the
above stated relationships. It was concluded that attitudes toward
political change constitutes an integral part of the relationship that
exists between political beliefs and political actions.