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ICPSR Instructional Subset: Justifying Violence: Attitudes of American Men, 1969

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Principal Investigator(s): Blumenthal, Monica; Kahn, Robert L.; Andrews, Frank M.

Summary: 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 ... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07517.v1

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