Date of Award
1976
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
O'Rand, Angela
Abstract
Previous research has failed to show that women's attitudes toward the women's liberation movement are related in any systematic fashion to their social position. Utilizing a national. representative sample of 826 women, this thesis develops and tests a framework of attitude format ion which links a woman's location in the social structure to her attitude toward the movement. Drawing on the Mannheim tradition, the framework hinges on the importance of two distinct ideologies which intervene to bring the movement into focus as either a Reformist, egalitarian movement or a Radical, change-oriented movement. We find that a woman's objective position in the social structure does determine her attitude toward the women's liberation movement, only indirectly, through her subjective interpretation of the movement which takes the form of an intervening ideology.
Extent
79 p.
Recommended Citation
WRIGHT, ELAINE BENNETT, "IDEOLOGY, SOCIAL POSITION AND ATTITUDES TOWARD THE WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT" (1976). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1970 - 1979. 463.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_2/463
Identifier
FADT13819
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1976.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters