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Peer reviewedWarner, Richard W., Jr.; Hansen, James C. – High School Journal, 1970
Descriptors: Demography, High School Students, Student Alienation
Long, Samuel – 1979
This study is concerned with adolescents' response levels on seven measures of political alienation: powerlessness, discontentment, cynicism, detachment, hopelessness, elitism, and democratic deficiency. Using a random sample of 269 Hartford, Connecticut high school students surveyed in May 1976, political alienation levels are found to be…
Descriptors: Demography, High School Students, Political Attitudes, Political Socialization
Long, Samuel – 1979
In a May 1976 study of 269 Hartford, Connecticut high school students, four fundamental questions were investigated. First, what is the source of responsibility for the present state of the political system? Second, using a four-dimensional attributional scheme to measure such responsibility, what is the underlying structure of such attributed…
Descriptors: Demography, High School Students, Political Attitudes, Political Socialization
Peer reviewedSilvern, Louise E.; Nakamura, Charles Y. – Journal of Social Issues, 1971
Descriptors: Activism, Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Demography
Hall, Mark A. – Campus Activities Programming, 1995
Theory on the patterns of generational cycles is examined as a context for looking at Generation X, born 1961-1981. General cultural and historical background characteristics of this group's members, their sociocultural traits and attitudes, and their relationship with their predecessors, the Baby Boomers, are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Baby Boomers, Demography, Generation Gap
Download full textJohnston, Lloyd D.; And Others – 1987
This paper presents selected research findings from Monitoring the Future, an annual series of national surveys focusing on lifestyles and drug use among representative samples of American high school seniors that has been conducted every year since 1975. The presentation focuses on two issues: aspects of lifestyle currently associated with drug…
Descriptors: Demography, Drug Abuse, Drug Use, High School Seniors
Egbert, Robert L.; And Others – 1979
An important phenomenon of 20th century American society has been the occurrence of radical shifts in birth rate, fertility rate, and the number of births. This paper is the first of three which explore the relationship between changing proportions of youth in our society and the social, psychological, political, and economic impact of such…
Descriptors: Activism, Birth Rate, Cohort Analysis, Conflict
Heussenstamm, F. K.; Hoepfner, Ralph – 1971
This study, based on cultural stereotypes, seeks to determine the demographic characteristics which differentiate among young people and correlate with their levels of alienation. A preliminary version of an experimental scale, designed to determine the existence and extent of alienation manifested by in-school adolescents, was developed in a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Age Differences, Black Students
