The Mood of America in the 1980s: Some Further Observations on Sociomoral Issues
The entry of the New Christian Right into the American political arena in the 1980s provoked a number of scholarly controversies including a debate about the orientation of Americans to politicized sociomoral issues. Following a review of the debate, a typology of political arenas is proposed. The t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
1994
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Sociology of religion
Year: 1994, Volume: 55, Issue: 3, Pages: 291-305 |
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| Summary: | The entry of the New Christian Right into the American political arena in the 1980s provoked a number of scholarly controversies including a debate about the orientation of Americans to politicized sociomoral issues. Following a review of the debate, a typology of political arenas is proposed. The typology generalizes Converse's (1964) analysis of belief systems in mass publics. The hypothesis that the American political arena in the 1980s contained one of the types, a quasi-ideological politics of sociomoral issues, is tested with data from the 1980 and 1988 General Social Surveys. The hypothesis is not rejected. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3712055 |