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AbstractBusiness has played a central role in the debate over Britain's place in the European Union. This paper examines the socio‐economic characteristics of directors of Britain's largest corporations who affiliated either to Business for Sterling or Britain in Europe. It reports associations between directors' social backgrounds and their probabilities of affiliation. Elite university education, club membership, wealth and multiple directorships were all associated with higher propensities to affiliate. The associations are consistent with the idea that directors' social resources allow them to overcome collective action problems as well as supplying them with the motivations to affiliate. They also indicated that directors form a privileged group in that they have a number of very powerful actors who can take unilateral political actions.

Business has played a central role in the debate over Britain's place in the European Union. This paper examines the socio-economic characteristics of directors of Britain's largest corporations who affiliated either to Business for Sterling or Britain in Europe. It reports associations between directors' social backgrounds and their probabilities of affiliation. Elite university education, club membership, wealth and multiple directorships were all associated with higher propensities to affiliate. The associations are consistent with the idea that directors' social resources allow them to overcome collective action problems as well as supplying them with the motivations to affiliate. They also indicated that directors form a privileged group in that they have a number of very powerful actors who can take unilateral political actions.

The main purpose of this research was testing the quality of life in adults
in Serbia. In order to obtain a more detailed picture, the sociodemographic
correlates of quality of life were examined. The sample included 153
participants of both genders, aged 30-50 with different professional
qualifications. The research involves both objective and subjective
evaluation of quality of life in seven domains: material well-being, health,
productivity, intimacy, safety, well-being inside a larger community and
emotional well-being. For the purpose of the research an adapted version of
the instrument ComQol (Comprehensive Quality of Life Scale, Adult, fifth
edition, Cummins, 1997) was used. The highest level was estimated in areas
such as intimacy, health, safety and productivity whereas the lowest level
outcame for material well-being and content with a place in a community.
Results also show significant differences in quality of life among certain
socio-demographic groups, mainly between younger and older, examinees of
different genders, educational degrees and marital statuses. Given results
provide guidelines for future researches of quality of life in Serbia,
therefore they are practical implications important for designing and
implementing of programmess for advancement of weak domains in life quality
for adults, beside the preventive programmes which would maintain higher
quality levels of life already achieved.