A comparative study of social and political attitudes of college students.

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The students at North Carolina State College (where the study was made) made a larger percentage of conservative and liberal choices than reactionary and radical ones--that is, they tend to avoid extremes of opinion. When compared with the attitudes of students in colleges of the north and extreme west, they appear to be slightly more extreme in their general political and social attitudes. The students were most reactionary and conservative on the following problems: race, sex and family, authority of religious and national tradition. Each succeeding college class made more liberal and radical and fewer reactionary and conservative choices. Although the numbers involved were rather small, results point consistently and rather conclusively to the fact that high scholarship and liberal-radical choices are positively correlated. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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