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Einstellung zum Gebrauch von Computern und perzipierte
Auswirkungen des Computereinsatzes auf die amerikanische Wirtschaft
sowie auf das Individuum.

Themen: Beurteilung der beruflichen und privaten Erfahrungen mit
Computern; Intensität des Umgangs mit Rechnern; Image von Berufen im
Computerbereich und Image der Computer (Skalen); Einschätzung der
Wichtigkeit der Computer in verschiedenen Bereichen; erwartet
Innovationen durch Computereinsatz; Einstellung zu einem umfangreicheren
Computereinsatz durch die Regierung und Verwaltung; Einstellung zur
Speicherung persönlicher Daten in Datenbanken; Probleme des
Datenschutzes und der zunehmenden Überwachung des einzelnen.

Demographie: Alter (klassiert); Geschlecht; Schulbildung; Beruf;
Einkommen; politische Orientierung; Bundesland.

This paper argues that rank disequilibrium (or status inconsistency) is a factor in developing right-wing attitudes. The topic had contemporary relevance with the prominence of the John Birch Society, the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade, the Anti-U.N. movement, and the 1964 Republican convention held in South San Francisco.

La multiplication des grandes enquêtes internationales depuis quelques années fournit un matériau adapté à la sociologie du changement culturel. On utilisera ici l'enquête sur les valeurs de 1999. Il s'agit d'analyser comment s'organisent les attitudes morales et les attitudes économiques des Européens, et quels liens entretiennent ces attitudes avec l'orientation politique. S'agissant des attitudes morales, on constate l'existence de trois échelles : la première porte sur les mœurs ; la deuxième s'applique à des comportements témoignant de ce que je propose de baptiser l'égotisme social ; la troisième sous-tend les opinions émises sur des formes de fraude dans le rapport à l'argent. De leur côté, les opinions économiques se révèlent moins fortement structurées que les attitudes morales, et souvent en net décalage avec les analyses que développe la science économique, en tout cas sous sa forme aujourd'hui la plus courante. Des échelles de ce type ont été mises en relation avec l'orientation politique il y a une vingtaine d'années dans le cas français. Bien que moins fortes, ces relations sont de nouveau vérifiées aujourd'hui au niveau européen, malgré l'hétérogénéité culturelle de ce continent. En France, si le lien des attitudes économiques avec l'orientation politique semble s'être affaibli depuis vingt ans, il perdure s'agissant des positions face aux questions de mœurs.

We study the long-run effects of con ict on social attitudes, with World War II in Central and Eastern Europe as our setting. Much of earlier work has relied on self- reported measures of victimization, which are prone to endogenous misreporting. With our own survey-based measure, we replicate established findings linking victimization to political participation, civic engagement, optimism, and trust. Those findings are reversed, however, when tested instead with an objective measure of victimization based on historical reference material. Thus, we urge caution when interpreting survey- based results from this literature as causal.

Welfare state attitudes are often studied from the perspective of the individual's characteristics and/or national or regime-type contexts. This thesis instead seeks explanations for individuals' varying attitudes towards the welfare state at the level of local contexts (municipalities). Sweden is used as a case for testing whether there are such contextual effects. The general aim is to find out whether social, political, and institutional aspects of local context influence the attitudes of individuals. Since the general aim of this thesis is to examine how background characteristics of individuals and characteristics of local contexts simultaneously act in shaping individuals' attitudes, I use multilevel modelling in order to handle individual-level and contextual-level data simultaneously. Latent-class analysis (LCA) is also employed in the analyses to explore the patterning of variables. This is mainly done in order to create dependent variables and to distinguish between categories of municipalities sharing similar characteristics. The data consist of Swedish survey data, which have been complemented by municipal-level data. The findings indicate that the social and political context of municipalities can matter for individuals' attitude formation. Variation across municipalities in terms of the prevalence of social problems and risks seems to influence how individuals view the welfare state. Local municipal contexts characterized by many social problems and risks tend to be associated with more welfare state friendly attitudes among the local inhabitants, after taking individual-level determinants into account. Support for high social spending is greater in such milieus as is the tendency to view welfare beneficiaries with less suspicion regarding the potential abuse of welfare policies. Regarding the influence of local public service provision on attitudes, no evidence was found for feedback effects on individuals' attitudes toward public service privatization. In their attitudes towards the welfare state, individuals are to some extent influenced by their local environment. There seems to be a 'built in' thermostat in the Swedish welfare state. Local circumstances characterized by social problems and risks tend to be associated with a local citizenry having more welfare state-friendly attitudes.