| Abstract: | Thirty-one items on six identical surveys of University of Michigan undergraduate men between 1952 to 1989 help assess if there has been a "return of the fifties." Several elements of the fifties have returned—privatism, concern about loyalty and subversion, and conservatism in some personal morals. Other elements have not—the 1952 levels of other-direction, traditional religious commitment, and trust in human nature. The 1980s had a unique combination of political conservatism and personal individualism. |
