Patterns of Belief and Action : Measurement of student political activism / S.L. Sutherland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sutherland, S.L., Author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Students--Political activity.

Students.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This study makes a significant contribution to the field of attitude-behaviour research and studies of political radicalism and will be of particular interest to sociologists and social and political psychologists.

Contents:

Cover; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Student power as research opportunity; Study setting and sample; Contents of book; 1 ATTITUDES IN THEORY AND RESEARCH; Separation of verbal and other behaviour; Survey research: the problem of establishing common values; The problem of owning up to a-temporality; What is to be done?; Conclusion; 2 DATA COLLECTION AND SCALE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDITY; Reliability and validity goals; Student power and the university experience; Orientations to society; Psychological functioning measures; Concurrent validity; Conclusion

3 WORDS AND DEEDS, OR SOME KINDS OF BEHAVIOUR AND OTHER KINDS OF BEHAVIOURAttitude-behaviour consistency; Picking consistent people; Specifying opinion-activity types; Conclusion; 4 ADDITIONAL DIMENSIONS OF THE BELIEF SYSTEM: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL BELIEFS AND ACTIVITIES; Stipulative variables for university typology: review; Social-political ideologies of the types; Major opinion and activity stance indicators; Opinion stances of political types; Activity stances of political types; Relationship to social environment; Psychological-functioning variables; Summary of differences

5 EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF STUDENT ACTIVISTSLandmarks of the broad literature; Family background or attributed characteristics; Socialization characteristics in the literature; Activists' own characteristics; 6 IDENTIFYING THE TYPES: PARENTAL CHARACTERISTICS; Attributed characteristics; Expectations for background characteristics; Findings in cross-tabulation analysis; Attributed characteristics in regression analysis; 7 SOCIALIZATION CHARACTERISTICS OF POLITICAL TYPES; Expectations for socialization variables; Findings in cross-tabulation analysis; Socialization variables in regression analysis

8 STUDENTS' OWN CHARACTERISTICS AND ACTIVITYPredictions for students' own characteristics; Findings in bivariate analysis; Own characteristics in regression analysis; 9 CONCLUSION; Comparisons of types to findings of the literature; Potential for participant society; Methodological implications; Coherent learning: the process facilitating belief-system formation and activity; Recommendations; APPENDIXES; A. Individual items for scales of chapter 2, tables relating to concurrent validity; B. Occupation, education, and income tables; C. Standard scores on variables for the political types

D. Reference tablesE. Socialization variables: bivariate tables and intercorrelations; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

Reprinted in 2018.

ISBN:

1-4875-8407-5

OCLC:

1129186435