COMMUNITY POWER ACTORS AND CIVIL DEFENSE A DELINEATION OF COMMUNITY POWER ACTORS AND AN ANALYSIS OF THEIR CIVIL DEFENSE ATTITUDES, KNOWLEDGE, BEHAVIOR, AND SOURCES OF INFORMATION

摘要

The local community is conceptualized as a social system. One of the ele- I ments of the social system is social power. A social power model is defined which may be used by the local civil defense director for analyzing social power in his community. The major concepts of the social power model are authority, influence, and power structure. The community members who have social power and affect the community decision-making process are designated as power actors. The power actors in five Iowa communities were interviewed.