Identify four variables relevant to bringing up children and teaching them what they need to know, values, etc., that you think would be affected by what generation the person is in. For each variable, construct a hypothesis in which AGE is the independent variable and the attitude or position on child-rearing is the dependent variable. Use the GSS data set in your Discovering Sociology software and the Crosstabs task to test each hypothesis. Print out your tables. You will again use the GSS data base, Crosstabs task.
Income is a good variable to use to reflect social class.
The value of V will indicate the relative strength of the influence of each variable. There is a good reason why you need to use the column percent view. First, in a random sample of the population, there are different numbers of people in various age and social class categories, reflecting the fact that age groups and social class groups are not equally distributed thoughout the population. If you just look at a frequency distribution, that is, the number of respondents expressing a certain attitude, you may be misled. If you only looked at the frequency of responses, it might well look like the wealthy did not often have a particular attitude if 50 of them agreed with something while 190 of the poor agreed.