Images of the World in the Year 2000 : A Comparative Ten Nation Study / edited by H. Ornauer [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ornauer, Helmut, 1938- editor.

Series:

Publications of the European Coordination Centre for Research and Documentation in the Social Sciences Series

Publications of the European Coordination Centre for Research and Documentation in the Social Sciences ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human beings--Constitution.

Human beings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (730 p.) : Num. figs., tab.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Atlantic Highlands, NJ : Humanities Press Inc., [1976]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Images of the World in the Year 2000".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

List of participants in the Year 2000 project

List of abbreviations and explanations

PART I Introduction

1 On the future, future studies and future attitudes

2 Optimism versus pessimism

PART II National samples compared

3 The future: A forgotten dimension

4 The future: A dimension being discovered

5 Data, methods, interpretations: A discussion

6 Replication on a nation: The Federal Republic of Germany

7 Replication on a youth group: The students

8 The Japanese image of the future

9 Opinions' shift in time

PART III The social background of the images

10 Images of the woman and the family

11 Age groups and the future

12 War and peace as conceived in various social group

13 Social strata and attitudes towards peace and wa

14 Social position and the image of the future

PART IV The content of the images

15 Homology of predictions and wishes

16 The powerful, the powerless and the future

17 Knowledge of military alliances

18 Young believers in a world state

19 Social structure and ideologies of peace

20 Intranational and international social position and peace attitudes

21 Images of other people's images

PART V Conclusions

22 The future : Forgotten, and to be discovered

PART VI Appendix

23 History and organization of the Year 2000 project

24 The basis and background of data interpretation

25 Description of the Indian sample

26 Social position, dogmatism and social participation as independent variables

27 The Year 2000 questionnaire and the marginals of 11 nations

28 List of questionnaire items with abbreviations used

29 List of project publications

30 Short biographies of the authors

Index of names

Index of subjects

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2023)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-080532-4

OCLC:

1374540181