Original scientific paper
The Relationship Between Young People's Social Status and Their Political Orientations
Željko Buzov
; Institute for Social Research, Zagreb
Goran Milas
; Institute for Social Research, Zagreb
Ivan Rimac
; Institute for Social Research, Zagreb
Abstract
In this research project carried out on a sample of 675 youths in Zagreb’s »Centre« Commune three factors have been extracted interpreting the intercorrelations among the items representing political attitudes. Factorization of the variables of social status indicates the existence of eight latent social status dimensions. The intercorrelations between these two groups of factors are very low thus denying the thesis of a deterministic relationship between social status and political opinion. The authors presume that the formation of political opinion is influenced by the context of socialization, not examined in this and similar surveys, as well as by some internal mental factors mediating the person's existence as a whole.
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155379
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Publication date:
31.3.1990.
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