Author : Grace Skogstad
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Book Synopsis Adolescent Political Alienation by : Grace Skogstad
Download or read book Adolescent Political Alienation written by Grace Skogstad and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research reported in this thesis was guided by two major objectives. The first objective was to examine adolescent political alienation in a Western Canadian province. The second goal was to reveal something about the nature of the political socialization process in that province, and hence, in Canada. By examining adolescent political alienation within the framework of political socialization, it was hoped that both goals could be achieved simultaneously. Measures to tap adolescent political alienation were constructed and administered to 1,354 junior and senior high school students, of whom almost equal numbers were drawn from rural and urban schools. Chapter 4 gives a detailed account of the construction of these measures. In order to understand better the nature of these political alienation feelings, the measures of political alienation were related to indices of politicization, political information, social trust, social isolation, and, as well, several family background variables. The results of these statistical analyses are presented in Chapters 6 and 7. As well, multiple regression was utilized to arrive at more concise descriptions of the major relationships among the indicators of political alienation and the independent variables previously mentioned. The research substantiated two hypotheses of the author: one, that the concept of political alienation is a meaningful concept within the adolescent groups studied here; and two, that the political social ization of Canadian adolescents appears to be quite different from that of adolescents in the United States.
