Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pollsters asked people to make judgments on a series of actions, deciding whether such actions were morally wrong or not a moral issue. On most issues the answers were stern ones...
Putting aside the word moral, the interviewers then listed a number of practices and asked whether they had become acceptable at least for other people, even if not for yourself." Once again, a majority found many things unacceptable: nude bathing beaches (61%), massage parlors (60%), male nudity in movies (59%) female nudity in movies (54%), topless waitresses in nightclubs...
...general, it is clear that the traditional moral system has widespread support. But whether this is a yearning for more conservative moral times or simply the persistence of attitudes that were widely thought to have faded is less apparent. The Yankelovich survey asked people whether their own views about morality had become more liberal or more conservative in the past few years. In response, 42% said there had been no change, 41% said they had become more liberal and 15% said they had become more conservative. It is difficult to measure such changes exactly, but even after ie process...
...among adolescents. "What really surprised us," Colin J. Williams, coauthor of the study, told TIME, "was that there existed such a hard-core bunch of conservatives in the country." In numerous places in the study, there are 20% to 40% that term "everything absolutely wrong. We call this moral absolutism, and there's a tremendous amount of it. What change there has been has occurred mainly in white, middle-class urban areas which are the areas that the media are constantly examining. But they do not reflect the country at large...
...hard to determine exactly how a society acquires or changes such attitudes about itself. The processes of legislature and law move slowly. One unmistakable new element on the scene, however, is President Jimmy Carter, whom 53% of the Yankelovich respondents regarded as providing "strong moral leadership" (13% found him "too righteous"). Carter's influence may take some personal twists, like urging Government employees "who are living in sin" to get married (four of his top aides have done so since his election). On the other hand, the President's personal views can have major political significance...