Publisher's Synopsis
Most of the essays in this book originated as papers presented at a conference on A Decade of Change in Social Attitudes organised by the Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends (CREST) in November 1995. These have been supplemented by two further papers commissioned to address questions that arose during the conference. The chapters cover two related aspects of understanding change in social attitudes. The first is methodological: how to measure and analyse complex social attitudes and the way in which they change over time. The second is substantive: how much attitudes have in fact changed over the past decade or so, both in Britain and abroad. - - The chapters draw primarily on SCPRÆs annual British Social Attitudes survey series, supplemented by data from the British Household Panel Survey, the United States General Social Survey and the International Social Survey Programme.
