Motion Pictures and the Social Attitudes of Children

Developmental orientations as measured by the Dakota Inventory of Student Orientations (DISO) are strong predictors of the social attitudes and commitments that college students make. The aim of this study was to investigate the nature of social beliefs and commitments during the college years in relation to developmental orientations as measured by DISO (Lavelle & Rickord, 1999). Results supported Creative-Reflective scale scores as predictive of commitment to the more humanitarian issues such as race and womens rights, whereas Achieving-Social scores predicted environmental concern. Interestingly, Reliant scale scores were found to be negatively related to social commitment. Implications include interventions based on the strengths and weaknesses of each orientation and suggestions for further research.

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Beyond millennials v baby boomers: Using kindness to assess generationalism across four age cohorts in Australia

The Sociological Review ◽

10.1177/00380261211016280 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 003802612110162

Author(s):

Nicholas Hookway ◽

Dan Woodman

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Strong Support ◽

Social Attitudes ◽

Growing Up ◽

Longitudinal Methods ◽

Age Cohorts ◽

The Social ◽

Youth And Young Adults ◽

Generation Period ◽

Life Cycle Effects

Today’s young people (youth and young adults) are routinely understood in generational terms, constructed as narcissistic and selfish in comparison with their predecessors. Despite announcements of a weakening commitment to values of kindness and generosity, there is little empirical research that examines these trends. The Australian Survey of Social Attitudes shows that young people are more likely to be kind but are less likely to think most Australians are kind. This article investigates this tension using focus groups with Australians of different ages (corresponding to major generational groupings) and drawing on the sociology of generations. To differentiate between generation, period and age/life-cycle effects requires longitudinal methods. However, these qualitative data suggest that a ‘generationalist’ discourse of young people as narcissistic is powerful in Australia and that young people are both internalising and challenging this framing. They appear to be responding to common experiences of growing up with the social and economic uncertainties of an ‘until-further-notice’ world and express strong support for values of kindness and openness to difference.

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Churches in Cultural Captivity: A History of the Social Attitudes of Southern Baptists

The Arkansas Historical Quarterly ◽

10.2307/40030727 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 31 (4) ◽

pp. 389

Author(s):

Timothy P. Donovan ◽

John Lee Eighmy ◽

Samuel S. Hill

Keyword(s):

Social Attitudes ◽

Southern Baptists ◽

The Social ◽

History Of

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REVIEW OF SOCIAL RESEARCH IN POLAND ON THE SARS-CoV-2 PANDEMIC IN THE LIGHT OF THE FUZZY REASONING PARADIGM

Polityka Społeczna ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0015.0281 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 563 (2) ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

Małgorzata Stochmal ◽

Jan Maciejewski ◽

Andrzej Jarynowski

Keyword(s):

Empirical Research ◽

Quantitative Data ◽

Social Research ◽

Secondary Analysis ◽

Fuzzy Reasoning ◽

Social Attitudes ◽

Research Projects ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

The Social ◽

Theoretical Assumptions

The article presents the results of the secondary analysis of qualitative and quantitative data in relation to social research conducted in Poland during the pandemic. The research results were introduced on the basis of analyzes of 180 projects carried out by scientific and commercial institutions in the period from January to May 2020. The aim of the project is to present a standard way of conducting empirical research for social researchers who undertake the challenge of identifying the phenomena accompanying the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. We are interested in the possibility of drawing conclusions that go beyond individual research projects carried out in the social field. The conclusions recommended by us concern the following issues: mitigating the polarization of social attitudes dynamically changing during a pandemic, practical solving – and not only diagnosing – problems revealed in COVID reality and supplementing the deficiencies of theoretical assumptions accompanying research works.

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