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Trends in Attitudes on Political Social, and Collegiate Issues among College Students

Alan E. Bayer, Jeffrey E. Dutton

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A comparative historical assessment, based on annual national surveys of new college students since the mid-1960s, fails to support the popular characterization of recent college students as being more apathetic and more conservative than their predecessors of the campus unrest years of the 1960s. There has been a trend away from both extremes in political identification. This depolarization has been accompanied historically by increasingly liberal support for most societal and collegiate issues and policies.

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Key concepts: Unrest, Politics, Higher education, Political science, Social unrest, Identification (biology), Psychology, Sociology