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Understanding change in social attitudes

Title
Understanding change in social attitudes / edited by Bridget Taylor and Katarina Thomson.
Publication
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Dartmouth Pub., [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors
  • Taylor, Bridget.
  • Thomson, Katarina.
Description
x, 219 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subject
  • Social change > Congresses
  • Social change > Psychological aspects > Congresses
  • Attitude change > Congresses
  • Public opinion > Congresses
Note
  • Papers originally presented at a conference on A decade of change in social attitudes, held at City University in London on Nov. 29, 1995.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Questioning British attitudes / Roger Jowell and Alison Park -- 2. A decade of changing attitudes / David McKie and Lindsay Brook -- 3. Changing attitudes towards abortion: life-cycle, period and cohort effects / Anthony Heath and Jean Martin -- 4. Attitude change: its measurement and interpretation using longitudinal surveys / Duane F. Alwin and Jacqueline Scott -- 5. The Thatcherite experiment: have people become more right-wing? / Malcolm Brynin and Jonathan Gershuny -- 6. Why methodology matters / John Curtice -- 7. Patterns of attitude change in the USA: 1972-1994 / James A. Davis -- 8. Cross-national differences in support for welfare and redistribution: an evaluation of competing theories / Geoffrey Evans -- Appendix. Technical details of the survey / Katarina Thomson and Bridget Taylor.
ISBN
1855218925
LCCN
96030775
OCLC
ocm35192198
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries