Elite and Technical Progress

Attitude of West German elites to technical progress, use of new
technologies in personal work area and natural science.

Topics: Detailed determination of course of professional career;
general characterization of personal occupation; attitude to use of
computers in individual areas of the economy and politics,
differentiated according to documentation tasks, decision aids and
complete acceptance of decision-making; assessment of the possibilities
of use of computers and rationalization measures in personal function
area; expected conflicts and those possibly already having taken place
regarding rationalization in personal activity area; expressive traffic
circles; communication habits; sources of technical information;
assessment of the social prestige of various occupations; attitude to
natural science occupations; judgement on the extent to which the
population is informed about technology and politics; expected social
consequences of technical progress; openness to innovation; educational
goals and primary tasks of the school; significance of one´s own school
education for one´s own professional career; judgement on the image of
the individual school degrees; attitude to a so-called leisure
education; contacts with journalists; memberships; assessment of the
loss of power of executives through new technologies; general judgement
on the extent to which decision-makers are informed; attitude to
technology (scale); social origins.

Demography: age; marital status; number of children; religious
denomination; religiousness; political discussion.

Interviewer rating: length of interview; date of interview;
interruptions of interview. Also encoded was: identification of
interviewer.