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Ideology and social indicators of the quality of life |
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| Authors: | Frederick H Buttel E A Wilkening Oscar B Martinson |
| Institution: | 1. Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2. Dept. of Sociology, The Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, Ohio, USA 3. Dept. of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA 4. Dept. of Sociology and Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53706, Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
| Abstract: | This paper explores the possibility that social-psychological, evaluative measures of social well-being/quality of life (QOL) perceptions may embody unintended ideological elements. We argue that individual QOL satisfactions are likely caused, in part, by ‘satisfactions’, or conservative orientations, vis-à-vis societal institutions. Four dependent measures of QOL attitudes-overall life satisfaction, service satisfaction, community satisfaction, and powerlessness-are derived from factor analyses and established measurement procedures. Each of these QOL indicators is found to exhibit significant bivariate associations with measures of political-economic ideology. These relationships are somewhat reduced, but persist at statistically significant levels, when socio-demographic background variables are held constant. We then discuss the implications of our results for theory and method in the social indicators field. |
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