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Homosexual moral acceptance and social tolerance: are the effects of education changing?
1Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. kozloski@uchicago.edu
Abstract:
Using data from the General Social Survey, this research evaluates the effect of education on both the moral acceptance and social tolerance of homosexuality in America and how that effect has been changing. In terms of moral acceptance, it is shown through multivariate logistic regression that while education is associated with more liberal attitudes, it has not significantly influenced trends. In the second part of the analysis, these results are compared to a similar investigation of social tolerance. From this, it is seen that education has a stronger connection with tolerance, but its effect has been decreasing over time.
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