British Social Attitudes: Focusing on Diversity,The 17th Report edition | Date: 28 April 2011, 03:43
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British Social Attitudes: Focusing on Diversity,The 17th Report edition (British Social Attitudes Survey series)
By Roger Jowell, Professor John Curtice, Alison Park, Katarina Thomson, Lindsey Jarvis, Catherine Bromley, Nina Stratford
* Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
* Number Of Pages: 368
* Publication Date: 2001-03-29
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0761970452
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780761970453
Product Description:
Britain is a well-documented nation. We know a lot about the characteristics of our society - who we are and what we do. We know much less about what we think and feel about our world and ourselves.
The indispensable annual British Social Attitudes survey fills this gap. It compiles, describes and comments on a range of current social attitudes. The information is derived from interviews carried out by the National Centre for Social Research's own interviewers among a nationwide sample of around 3,500 people each year. The series seeks to chart changes in British social values over a period of time in relation to other changes in society, and is core-funded by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. A full report is published each year.
The 17th Report summarizes and interprets data from the most recent survey, as well as making comparisons with findings from previous years. The data are publicly available through the ESRC Data Archive at the University of Essex.
Review `We have long been fans of the British Social Attitudes survey, once declaring it to be "the most trustworthy and comprehensive guide" to British life available between hard covers' - The Guardian
`The Rolls Royce of opinion surveys' - The Times
`I've always enjoyed reading the British Social Attitudes survey, which shows what the British people really think, as opposed to what journalists and politicians like to pretend they think' - John Pilger
`A model for social reporting' - James Davis, University of Chicago
`BSA's topical and well informed reports...have become an indispensable tool not just for governments, but also for modern citizens to understand their fellows, and themselves, better' - The Times Higher
Summary: Illuminating survey of our opposition to Labour's capitalist policies
Rating: 5
This fascinating survey studies the British people's reaction to the Labour government. It examines key areas of government policy - the redistribution of wealth, pensions, the work-life balance, higher education, home ownership, health, transport, the European Union, and trade unions.
73% of us think that the gap between rich and poor is too large. 90% favour tax and spending policies which reduce this gap, yet the government's policies have widened it. People's top priority for extra spending on benefits is pensions - 41% thought so in 1983, 59% in 2003. Instead, the governments policies are wrecking our pension schemes.
The studies show that more people now use flexible working options, that people strongly supported both vocational and academic education, and that the vast majority aspire to own their own homes, however many obstacles governments and banks put in their way.
In 2004 there was a 10% fall in satisfaction with dental services because it is so hard to find a dentist who does NHS work. Satisfaction with other parts of our NHS held steady, showing how much we dislike the government's privatising our health service.
Network Rail gets twice the public money that British Rail got pre-privatisation. No wonder 96% back improving public transport. It's a pity the survey did not ask people whether they would like the railways to be renationalised.
More and more we oppose the EU, which the government loves. 56% of us would vote against the EU Constitution, 20% would vote for. 57% wanted to reduce the EU's influence, 10% wanted to increase it (compared to 37% and 40% respectively in 1992).
Trade unionists are now far less pro-Labour than they used to be. Given all these findings about what people actually want, it is astounding that anyone still votes for any of the pro-capitalist parties, Labour included, because the parties all oppose what the vast majority of us want.
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