Details

Subject(s)

• Attitude (Psychology) [Browse]
• Violence—Research—United States [Browse]
• Violence—United States [Browse]
• United States [Browse]

Related name

• Andews, Frank M. [Browse]
• Blumenthal, Monica [Browse]
• Kahn, Robert L. [Browse]
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [Browse]

Series

• ICPSR (Series) ; 7517. [More in this series]
• ICPSR 7517
• Instructional Subset Series 7517

Restrictions note

Use of these data are restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.

Summary note

This survey of attitudes of 1,374 American men aged 16-64 toward violence was conducted in the summer of 1969 by the Survey Research Center of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. The investigators examined the level of violence that respondents viewed as justified to accomplish social control and social change and also probed the respondents' personal values, their definition of violence, and their identification with groups involved in violence. To examine the degree of violence that American men felt could be justified for social control, the investigators asked respondents to react to situations involving protests and other disturbances. These situations included hoodlum gang disturbances, student protests, and Black protest demonstrations. The respondents were asked what police actions from "letting it go" to "shooting to kill" were appropriate as police control measures. Several such items were combined to form an index of "violence for social control." In questions dealing with the level of violence necessary to bring about social change, respondents were asked if they agreed with the necessity of "protest in which some people will be killed" in order to bring about changes sought by Blacks, by student demonstrators, and in general. These items were combined into an index of "violence for social change." This instructional subset from the original study also includes an initial series of questions that asked whether respondents viewed such actions as protest demonstrations, police frisking, looting, burglary, and draft-card burning as violence. This was followed by inquiries into the possible causes of violence and motives of those who participate in violence. Another set of variables deals with respondents' relative views of property damage and personal injury and their opinions on the use of violence to pre... Cf.: http://webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR-STUDY/07517.xml

Notes

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

Type of data

1 data file + machine-readable documentation (text) + OSIRIS dictionary + SPSS data definition statements

Geographic coverage

United States

System details

Mode of access: Intranet.

Methodology note

Data source: personal interviews

Contents

Part 1: Data File

Other format(s)

Also available as downloadable files.

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