college "liberalism"

[Marco Anglesio]

On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
> but i wonder if this wasn't really based on an analysis of baby boomers 
> and not of college qua college over longer periods of time. what would 
> this actually look like for the generation that was in high 
> school/college in teh 80s?

I think that this phenomenon dates to the 50's or so, so it precedes the
boomers by a decade at least. It's taken as pretty much a given in the
social psychology literature. I can try to dig it out if you like.

An interesting note is that they never backslide to the level of the
general population; they just become more conservative than new graduates.
Which does stand to reason again; social mores do change and leave older
people behind.

m. 

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