ICPSR Instructional Subset : Justifying Violence: Attitudes of American Men, 1969 / Monica Blumenthal, Robert L. Kahn, Frank M. Andews.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Blumenthal, Monica.

Kahn, Robert L.

Andews, Frank M.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 7517.

ICPSR ; 7517

Instructional Subset Series ; 7517

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--United States.

Violence.

Violence--Research.

United States.

Attitude (Psychology).

Violence--Research--United States.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR edition.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1984.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

This survey of attitudes of 1,374 American men aged 16-64 toward violence was conducted in the summer of 1969 by the Survey Research Center of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. The investigators examined the level of violence that respondents viewed as justified to accomplish social control and social change and also probed the respondents' personal values, their definition of violence, and their identification with groups involved in violence. To examine the degree of violence that American men felt could be justified for social control, the investigators asked respondents to react to situations involving protests and other disturbances. These situations included hoodlum gang disturbances, student protests, and Black protest demonstrations. The respondents were asked what police actions from "letting it go" to "shooting to kill" were appropriate as police control measures. Several such items were combined to form an index of "violence for social control." In questions dealing with the level of violence necessary to bring about social change, respondents were asked if they agreed with the necessity of "protest in which some people will be killed" in order to bring about changes sought by Blacks, by student demonstrators, and in general. These items were combined into an index of "violence for social change." This instructional subset from the original study also includes an initial series of questions that asked whether respondents viewed such actions as protest demonstrations, police frisking, looting, burglary, and draft-card burning as violence. This was followed by inquiries into the possible causes of violence and motives of those who participate in violence. Another set of variables deals with respondents' relative views of property damage and personal injury and their opinions on the use of violence to pre... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07517

Contents:

Part 1: Data File

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

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