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Abstract Nilsson, I., Ekehammar, B. & Sidanius, J. 1985. Education and Sociopolitical Attitudes. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research 29, 1‐15. Relationships were studied between educational direction (academic/vocational) and various aspects of sociopolitical ideology (sociopolitical self‐description, political party preference, and sociopolitical attitudes measured by the S5 Conservatism scale) using a sample of 532 Swedish high school students (modal age=18 yrs). The results disclosed clear and systematic relations between educational direction and sociopolitical attitude items and general sociopolitical dimensions. Vocational students were consistently more conservative than academic students on factors linked to social conservatism (xenophobia, ethno‐centrism, punitiveness, racism), whereas differences linked to political‐economic conservatism (PEC, Pro‐West, social inequality) were small and inconsistent. The findings were generalizable to both sexes as regards political party preference groups. 1The study was supported by grants to Drs. Bo Ekehammar and Jim Sidanius from the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences for a project entitled Political Socialization. Notes 1The study was supported by grants to Drs. Bo Ekehammar and Jim Sidanius from the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences for a project entitled Political Socialization.
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