Suchergebnisse

This article examines ideological thinking about local political issues. An intensive analysis, using Q‐technique, of how a small sample of citizens and government officials evaluated thirty‐six local issues revealed four different perspectives on local politics. No single liberal‐conservative bipolar continuum along which local issues could be arrayed emerged from the analysis. Instead subjects revealed points of views on local issues that seemed to mix conventional ideological perspectives.

The research reported here examines the impact of viewing television crime shows on preadults' attitudes toward civil liberties. The data analyzed were the result of a survey of school children in grades six through twelve. Generally, heavy viewers of crime shows were more likely to have anti-civil libertarian attitudes. This relationship survived controls for seven background variables. Crime show viewing had its greatest impact on the attitudes of subgroups that normally are predisposed to support a civil libertarian viewpoint. These groups included children in the higher grades, children from middle class homes, and children whose parents do not place a great deal of stress on conformity. The results indicate that television entertainment may be an important source of political learning.

Two explanations have been offered for the similarity of husband and wife political views. One is mutual socialization, which states that after a period of time married couples come to share political values. An alternative explanation is that individuals select mates who share their political views. A test of the mutual socialization hypothesis would require panel data, but the selection hypothesis can be tested using experimental techniques. Drawing on the literature from social psychology, an experiment was designed to deter mine whether political views make any difference in interpersonal attraction. The findings of the experiment revealed that the political views of opposite sex others do have an effect on interpersonal attraction. The attraction scores of females who were interested in politics were influenced the most by political issues. This study provides partial confirma tion of the selection hypothesis.

Aus japanischer Sicht