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IDEOLOGICAL PROXIMITY AMONG FRENCH CHILDREN: PROBLEMS OF DEFINITION AND MEASUREMENT
Author(s) -
PERCHERON ANNICK
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6765.1977.tb01211.x
Subject(s) - ideology , identification (biology) , set (abstract data type) , sociology , social psychology , epistemology , psychology , law , political science , philosophy , computer science , politics , botany , biology , programming language
The problem of measuring ideological proximities or identifications among children is one of the most difficult. First, the author defines the limits of measurement by means of partisan identification when applied to cultures other than the American one and to populations other than adult. Second, using more indirect means of measurement it is suggested that ideological values which may be described as left‐ or right‐wing are part of the set of values acquired by most of the children and structure most of their attitudes even if they are unaware of it and even when they are unable to qualify themselves as being on the Left or Right.