Consciousness of Young People of Government and Law 1988

Knowledge of and interest in law of young people under consideration of law education up to now. Supplemental form on structuring of vacation. Topics: Interest in questions of socialist democracy; attitude to scientific surveys and open expression of opinion; attitude to laws of the GDR about equality and dealing with violation of law by everyone; necessity of comprehensive law knowledge; personal observance of socialist law; judgement on GDR laws regarding understandability, validity, necessity, usefulness, ability to observe; knowledge about the most important laws in the GDR such as constitution, youth law, work code, civil code, family code, penal code, petition law, military service law, state culture law; interest in individual areas of law, law gazettes and law publications (scale); interest in areas of law (scale); personal abilities to explain legal terms (scale); determination of the term "duties"; evaluation of the connection between law and duty; committee for formulating laws in the GDR; personal possession of the "youth law", knowledge and valuation of its content; understandability of the youth law; knowledge of age limits for independent actions of young people (scale); knowledge about the work law (scale); frequency of personal confrontation with crimes; fear of crimes; decisions about the crime-character of incidents described; evaluation of legal education effect of the FDJ group (scale); use of opportunities for the right to a say at work (scale); valuation of the subject "socialist law" (scale); law on co-determination of every young person; use of the right to co-determination; readiness for active participation in the accomplishment of socialist law (scale); willingness to participate in committees and councils (scale); personal significance of fundamental rights in the GDR (scale); willingness to participate in the National Front and in a representative body; knowledge of law in daily life; personal illegal conduct; exchange of western literature in one's circle of friends; member in the FDJ; social origins; Supplemental form: place of vacation this year; desired place of vacation in the next few years; activities to prepare vacation trips; accepted price for GDR vacation trips; number of vacations in youth hostels; number of trips abroad; reasons for vacation trips to foreign countries (scale); preferred destinations abroad and accepted price for this (scale); frequency of participation in trips of the youth travel agency Jugendtourist; reasons for purchase of a Jugendtourist trip abroad (scale); frequency of use of sources of information on travel selection (scale).