Eddie You can email them to c.d.field@bham.ac.uk Best wishes. Clive
Hi. Who do we email data reports to?
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2 responses to “British Social Attitudes Survey, 2008”
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Well, this is a tad self-referential, but I’ll add a link to some slides here which include some of the headline figures, and a graph of the distribution of scores on a religiosity scale and a bioethical attitudes scale. I presented them at a conference in Denver last October.
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/siobhan.mcandrew/documents/McAndrewSSSR.ppt
For me, it wasn’t so surprising that religiosity is correlated with attitudes to abortion, embryo cell experimentation and suchlike. More religious people are also more likely to say that premarital sex, and homosexual sex, is wrong. But religiosity seems to have very little to do with attitudes to extra-marital sex – most people think it’s bad behaviour (though as one friend said sardonically, a certain proportion must just be lying either to themselves or the interviewer). The more religious are more likely to say that “wives should stay home and husbands should work” but it’s still a very small minority of that group – households have just too much to gain perhaps by women working.
Finally, religiosity seems to affect the propensity to support either Labour or the Conservatives rather than none, which I thought surprising. I had thought it likely that political identities might shape personal religiosity – that people partly reconcile their religiosity to harmonise with their political world-view. Robert Putnam presented findings in Denver from his and David Campbell’s American Grace (2010, forthcoming) that in the US, being a Democrat or Republican seems to causally affect your choice of joining a more liberal or conservative church. But what I’ve found so far is that with the British data, the opposite relationship (religiosity affecting party choice) seems to hold, and there are various possibilities why – a “freezing” of party systems (following Lipset & Rokkan), or perhaps there is an unobserved factor which determines both personal religiosity and party choice. At any rate, I have more work to do here – it’s an interesting question why, in a highly secular country, religion might still affect political party support.
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