dc.contributor.author	Fiquet, Angela T. Jr.	en
dc.contributor.committeechair	Bailey, Carol A.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Hughes, Michael D.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Fuhrman, Ellsworth R.	en
dc.contributor.department	Sociology	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-14T21:52:57Z	en
dc.date.adate	1998-07-30	en
dc.date.available	2014-03-14T21:52:57Z	en
dc.date.issued	1998-04-10	en
dc.date.rdate	1999-07-30	en
dc.date.sdate	1998-04-10	en
dc.description.abstract	To the extent that the United States is a post-industrial society, whereby the means and ends of social production are social, and the production and reproduction of knowledge are shaped by reflexivity and continuous reconceptualizations of reality, what it means to be "tolerant" has been subjected to multiple ideologies. Supposedly freed from collectively imposed identities, social scientists have argued that in a postmodern society, individuals actively construct their own identities. In this study, it is questioned how multiple, trans-class and trans-disciplinary identities affect beliefs and behavior. Subject to exploration are expressions of tolerance, embodied as the expression of attitudes toward the following groups of traditionally nonconforming individuals: atheists, communists, racists and homosexuals. Using 1993 General Social Survey data, independent attitudinal variables were constructed from indexed items measuring opinions about ideas embraced by three "new" social movements: the women's, environmental and gay rights' movements. Socio-structural and attitudinal variables were regressed on tolerance, the dependent variable, which was divided into general and group-specific indexes. Education and urbanism were shown to be significant predictors of tolerance, while gender and political ideology were not significant predictors of tolerance. Positive correlations resulted between general tolerance and pro-feminist, pro-environmentalist and pro-gay rights attitudes. In conclusion, the prediction that individuals scoring high on measurements of feminism, environmentalism and pro-homosexuality, which all expound ideological convictions that refute traditional norms and value systems, would also demonstrate high levels of tolerance was greatly substantiated. Lending support for Bobo and Licari's (1989) argument, it is agreed that demographic, or social structural, variables alone are insufficient determinants of tolerance. Furthermore, although new social movements are chiefly organized around identity, rather than class, issues, even historically "tolerant" individuals, such as feminists, were shown to be less tolerant of certain groups, such as, in this study, racists	en
dc.description.degree	Master of Science	en
dc.identifier.other	etd-61598-19533	en
dc.identifier.sourceurl	http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-61598-19533/	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/46499	en
dc.publisher	Virginia Tech	en
dc.relation.haspart	fiquet.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	TABLE1.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	TABLE2.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	table3.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	TABLE4.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	TABLE5.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	APPEND.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	ATFRESUM98.PDF	en
dc.rights	In Copyright	en
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	en
dc.subject	Feminism	en
dc.subject	Environmentalism	en
dc.subject	Tolerance	en
dc.subject	New Social Movements	en
dc.subject	Gay Rights Movement	en
dc.title	An Analysis of Tolerance Variation Among Adherents to Feminist, Environmentalist and Gay Rights Principles	en
dc.type	Thesis	en
thesis.degree.discipline	Sociology	en
thesis.degree.grantor	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	en
thesis.degree.level	masters	en
thesis.degree.name	Master of Science	en

An Analysis of Tolerance Variation Among Adherents to Feminist, Environmentalist and Gay Rights Principles

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