Surveys conducted in Minnesota in 1969 and 1970 to obtain public opinion regarding environmental issues are discussed. Several generalizations are made about the state of public opinion about the environmental issue, as follows: (1) The environmental issue has reached public prominence through a sequence from professional and interest-group…

Paper is an analysis of 3,787 response to a questionnaire administered to a nationwide (especially urban north) random sample by the National Opinion Research Center in the summer of 1966. Ghetto blacks were found to support increases in both police power and the protection of civil liberties. (DB)

Four hundred and seventy residents of Ridgewood, New Jersey, and 493 residents of Jyvaskyla, Finland, were randomly selected and interviewed about their attitudes concerning nuclear war. In each area, a high proportion of the sample believed that some kind of nuclear incident is likely in the next decade. The vast majority stated that a nuclear…

A survey of adults in Louisville (Kentucky) revealed that measures of self-interest were weakly and inconsistently related to anti-busing attitudes, while measures of racial attitudes correlated strongly with opposition to busing. These findings contradict the assumptions of traditional political analysis. (Author/PGD)

This paper reports on a survey of 60 living groups in a remote town in Queensland, Australia, concerning child abuse notification. The survey focused on how strongly residents felt about abuse, how likely they were to notify, perceived indicators of abuse, facilitative and inhibiting factors in notifying, which authority they would notify, and…

In 1970, a randomly selected sample of 101 residents of the community surrounding the University of Maryland, College Park, were surveyed to determine their perceptions of campus unrest, and their responses were compared to student perceptions of the same events. Study variables were liberal-conservative self-ratings of the residents, political…