International social attitudes : the 10th BSA report
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International social attitudes : the 10th BSA report
Dartmouth , Social and Community Planning Research, c1993
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 10 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Most developed countries nowadays produce a great deal of data about their characteristics - who they are and what they do. But they generally much less information about their character - how they think and feel about their world and themselves. British social values have been charted since 1983 through SCPR's annual British Social Attitudes survey series, based on interviews with 3,000 adults nationwide. But soon it became apparent that, to identify Britain's distinctive social values, comparable data from other countries were also needed. Only then could the data reveal whether, for instance, there is an essentially British view of the world, whether national stereotypes have any basis in reality, whether and in what ways the British differ from their fellow Europeans and other nations in their social and political values. So, in 1985, SCPR joined with teams doing similar studies in other countries (now twenty others) to form the International Social Survey Programme in which each national research team devotes a small part of its annual study to an agreed module of questions on a rotating set of topics.
Since then a rich dataset has been created, enabling all participating nations to learn about each other and, in the process, to discover a great deal more about themselves than would otherwise be possible. This special report presents and interprets this data, drawing on comparable surveys carried out in several countries over the last few years. As usual, the British Social Attitudes surveys, while data British data come from SCPR's annual British Social Attitudes surveys, while data from other countries come from surveys of a similar design and standard. All the datasets are publicly available to allow others to explore the results further. In common with other books in this popular series, each chapter in this book serves to replace stereotypes and unfounded assumptions with authoritative facts and figures.
Table of Contents
- Foreword by Howard Newby
- introduction
- Disengaging from democracy, Michael Johnston
- The family way, Jacqueline Scott, Michael Braun and Duane Alwin
- Religion, morality and politics, Anthony Heath, Bridget Taylor and Gabor Toka
- What citizens want from the state, Peter Taylor-Gooby
- Satisfying work - if you can get it, John Curtice
- Class conflict and inequality, Geoffrey Evans
- Appendix I. Technical details of the surveys
- Appendix II. Notes on the tabulations
- Appendix III. The questionnaires.
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