High School Influence on Social-Class Attitudes
American Catholic boys' high schools run by the Jesuits, declare their intention to “improve” the social attitudes of their students. Two surveys of the freshmen and seniors of these schools in 1965 and 1968 provided data to test this stated objective and the direction it took. Using Lipset...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1972
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1972, Volume: 33, Issue: 4, Pages: 246-252 |
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| Summary: | American Catholic boys' high schools run by the Jesuits, declare their intention to “improve” the social attitudes of their students. Two surveys of the freshmen and seniors of these schools in 1965 and 1968 provided data to test this stated objective and the direction it took. Using Lipset's categories we found that students from lower SES families tended to demonstrate economic liberalism (on questions of poverty) while those from higher SES families manifested non-economic liberalism (on questions of race.) On all students the effect of four years attendance at Jesuit high schools was an increase of upper-class non-economic liberalism and a decrease of lower-class economic liberalism. This is interpreted as a reinforcement of the “bourgeois mentality” among the students. They became more tolerant about racial integration and Negro rights, but less tolerant of programs to alleviate the problems of poverty. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3710584 |