Inter-Faith and Inter-Nationality Attitudinal Variations among Youth toward Self, Family and the Collective

Two groups of American high school students, the first drawn from Catholic parochial schools and the second from public schools in the same community, are compared with regard to their attitudes to self, family, community, and nation. A third group, Israeli public high schoolers, is employed as an e...

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Main Author: Becker, Tamar (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publications 1978
In: Review of religious research
Year: 1978, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 68-81
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Summary:Two groups of American high school students, the first drawn from Catholic parochial schools and the second from public schools in the same community, are compared with regard to their attitudes to self, family, community, and nation. A third group, Israeli public high schoolers, is employed as an external standard of evaluation. Some intra-American differences were found, but their number and magnitude were much less significant than the inter-nationality differences. It is suggested that American youth culture, with its emphasis on the self and its anti-collectivity orientation, is the most potent determinant of attitudes among seventeen-year-olds and that it embraces at least those segments of American youth belonging to the "majority culture." The impact of the religious factor on the lives of Americans may be intimately related to the life cycle.
ISSN:2211-4866
Contains:Enthalten in: Review of religious research
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3509942