Trends in Attitudes on Political Social, and Collegiate Issues among College Students

Mid-1960s to Mid-1970s

Bibliographic Data

ID9010332
AuthorsAlan E Bayer (corresponding author), Jeffrey E Dutton
Year1976
Volume47
Issue2
Pages159-159
Publication date1976-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Higher Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1546 • E-ISSN: 1538-4640
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2307/1980419
OpenAlexW4230569168, W2092785307
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited12

A comparative historical assessment, based on annual national surveys of new college students since the mid-1960s, fails to support the popular characterization of recent college students as being more apathetic and more conservative than their predecessors of the campus unrest years of the 1960s. There has been a trend away from both extremes in political identification. This depolarization has been accompanied historically by increasingly liberal support for most societal and collegiate issues and policies

Higher education · Identification (biology · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social unrest · Sociology · Unrest · Academic Freedom and Politics · American Political and Social Dynamics · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology

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