Values and Public Dissent.
Abstract
Using a factor-scales instrument, an index of values developed in previous pilot studies that supplies 12 scores, respondents from dissenting and defending groups were surveyed. The value scales measured approval-disapproval of decisive leadership, responsive leadership, helpfulness, future time orientation, censorship, compromise, distrust, corrective violence, upward mobility, protective violence, submission to authority, and weak self-regard. Value profiles were obtained from average college students, middle managers of a large utility, newspaper editorial writers, Army and Navy non-commissioned officers, American Legionnaires, Birch Society members, U.S. Marshalls, anti-war demonstrators, Navy brig and Army stockade prisoners, welfare recipients, and radical and conservative students. Major interpretation of value differences emphasizes the dissenters' sense of powerlessness (weak self-regard), and perception of failure in society to conform in practice to democratic values which both the dissenters and defenders support. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1971
- Accession Number
- AD0718832
Entities
People
- F. Kenneth Berrien
Organizations
- Rutgers University–New Brunswick