Student-parent socialization study, 1965
By: principal investigator, M. Kent Jennings
Series: ICPSR -- 7286; ICPSR (Series) -- 7286
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: High school seniors; Attitudes; Parents; Families; Public opinion; Political activity
Description: The study was concerned with the evolution of political attitudes and intergenerational influences upon this process. Information collected for student respondents included attitudes toward school, family life, political parties, and the political process in general as well as personal data and plans for the future. Information for parents included views of family life, intrafamily relations, political history, and the political process. Parents were also questioned on their attitudes when they were high school students. The data were collected in the spring of 1965 and were administered to the entire student sample. Parents were interviewed on a random basis such that only mothers were interviewed for 1/3 of the students, only fathers for 1/3 of the students, and both parents for another 1/3 of the students. Information on the size and type of school, the enrollment percentage of minority groups, types of activities offered by the school, tenure systems, religious affiliations of the student body, and data on juvenile offenses and dropout percentages are available for the 97 schools included in this study.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class I and II.

Data collected: spring 1965.

United States.

The dataset contained 2,099 merged student and parent cases, 17 cards of data per case in the form of 599 variables. The student sample has 1,669 high school seniors, and the parent sample has 1,992 respondents.

Jennings, M. Kent, and Richard G. Niemi. The Political Character of Adolescence. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974.

Jennings, M. Kent, and Richard G. Niemi. ''The Transmission of Political Values from Parent to Child,'' American Political Science Review, 62(March 1968).

Langton, Kenneth, and M. Kent Jennings. Political Socialization and the High School Civics Curriculum in the United States,'' American Political Science Review, 62 (September 1968).