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IDEOLOGY, SOCIAL POSITION AND ATTITUDES TOWARD THE WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT

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1976
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Previous research has failed to show that women's attitudes toward the women's liberation movement are related in any systematic fashion to their social position. Utilizing a national. representative sample of 826 women, this thesis develops and tests a framework of attitude format ion which links a woman's location in the social structure to her attitude toward the movement. Drawing on the Mannheim tradition, the framework hinges on the importance of two distinct ideologies which intervene to bring the movement into focus as either a Reformist, egalitarian movement or a Radical, change-oriented movement. We find that a woman's objective position in the social structure does determine her attitude toward the women's liberation movement, only indirectly, through her subjective interpretation of the movement which takes the form of an intervening ideology.
Title: IDEOLOGY, SOCIAL POSITION AND ATTITUDES TOWARD THE WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT.
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Name(s): WRIGHT, ELAINE BENNETT.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
O'Rand, Angela, Thesis advisor
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Department of Sociology
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1976
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 79 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Previous research has failed to show that women's attitudes toward the women's liberation movement are related in any systematic fashion to their social position. Utilizing a national. representative sample of 826 women, this thesis develops and tests a framework of attitude format ion which links a woman's location in the social structure to her attitude toward the movement. Drawing on the Mannheim tradition, the framework hinges on the importance of two distinct ideologies which intervene to bring the movement into focus as either a Reformist, egalitarian movement or a Radical, change-oriented movement. We find that a woman's objective position in the social structure does determine her attitude toward the women's liberation movement, only indirectly, through her subjective interpretation of the movement which takes the form of an intervening ideology.
Identifier: 13819 (digitool), FADT13819 (IID), fau:10647 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1976.
Subject(s): Sociology, General
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