Brazilian law school students study, 1960
By: principal investigator, Ronald Scheman
Series: ICPSR -- 7045; ICPSR (Series) -- 7045
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1960
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Law students; Attitudes
Description: Data for this study were collected at fifteen law schools in several states in Brazil. Sampled were law school students, primarily in the first, third, or fifth year of study, the law schools were selected to get a geographic and economic cross-section of the country. All students present in class on a specified date were given the questionnaire. The study ascertains such family background data as age and education of the respondents' siblings, national origins of parents and grandparents, education of parents, occupation of father, and social class of the respondents' families. The respondents' pasts are further explored through questions about their motivation for choosing law as a field, subjects other than law which they have studied, and average grades obtained. In addition, the study probes occupational intentions, frequency of travel abroad, voting participation, desirability of student political activity, and the respondent's involvement in student politics.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Data collected: 1960.

International Data Library and Reference Service, Survey Research Cener, University of California at Berkeley.

Brazil.

Data contain non-numeric codes.

1,251 respondents, 1 card of data per respondent, and approximately 60 variables.

Scheman, Ronald. "The Social and Economic Origin of the Brazilian Judges," Inter- American Law Review, 4 (January 1962).

Scheman, Ronald. "Brazil's Career Judiciary," Journal of the American Judicary Society, 46 (December 1962).

Scheman, Ronald. "The Brazilian Law Student - Background, Habits, Attitudes," Journal on Inter-American Studies, 5 (July 1963).