Liberalism and Conservatism: The Nature and Structure of Social Attitudes

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Attitudes and "Attitude Man -- Attitude Man -- Liberalism and Conservatism -- Attitudes, Social Attitudes, Beliefs -- Structures and Factors -- Liberalism, Conservatism, and Attitude Man -- 2. Liberalism and Conservatism -- Definitions -- Liberalism -- Conservatism -- Radicalism -- Attitudes Toward Education: Progressivism and Traditionalism -- Progressivism -- Traditionalism -- Implications for Educational Practice -- 3. The Criterial Referents Theory of Attitudes -- General Background -- The Theory -- Definitions -- Criterial Referents, Shared Predispositions, and the Positivity Principle -- Duality and Orthogonality -- Bipolarity -- A Research Example -- The Theory and the Individual -- Implications for Attitude Research and Measurement -- Addendum: Two Approaches to Attitude Measurement and the Meaning of Negative Criteriality and Bipolarity -- 4. Methodology -- Structure -- An Example of Structure -- Routine Psychometric Analysis -- General Statistics, Reliabilities, and L-C Correlations -- Item Analysis -- Scales, Items, and Item Selection and Writing -- Types of Measurement Instruments -- Summated-Rating Scales -- Q Methodology and Q Sorts -- Subjects, Samples, and Administration of Instruments -- Factor Analysis -- First-Order Factor Analysis -- Second-Order Factor Analysis -- Factor Analysis as a Research Method -- Analysis of Covariance Structures -- Some Difficulties -- Factor Reification and Naming Factors -- Technical Problems -- What Factors Are and Are Not -- 5. The Measurement of Liberalism and Conservatism: A Review -- Anthologies of Attitude Scales -- Structural and Factor Analytic Studies -- Kerr -- Ferguson -- Eysenck -- Wilson -- Comrey and Newmeyer.