Entry:

Davis, James A., "Communism, Conformity, Cohorts, and Categories: American Tolerance in 1954 and 1972-1973," GSS Social Change Report No. 1, Also in American Journal of Sociology, 81 (November, 1975), 491-513.


Abstract:

There has been an average increase of about 23 percent points in tolerant responses; 4 percent of this increase is due to cohort effects on educational attainment; about 5 percent is due to cohort replacement; about 13 percent due to increasing tolerance among all cohort and education groups; and 1 percent due to increased college attainment not accounted for by cohort.

GSS Years:

1972-73

Other Data Sets:

Stouffer 1954

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
AGE

AGE OF RESPONDENT

EDUC

HIGHEST YEAR OF SCHOOL COMPLETED

SPKCOM

ALLOW COMMUNIST TO SPEAK

COLCOM

SHOULD COMMUNIST TEACHER BE FIRED

LIBCOM

ALLOW COMMUNISTS BOOK IN LIBRARY

SPKATH

ALLOW ANTI-RELIGIONIST TO SPEAK

COLATH

ALLOW ANTI-RELIGIONIST TO TEACH

LIBATH

ALLOW ANTI-RELIGIOUS BOOK IN LIBRARY