TRADITIONAL AUTHORITY ATTITUDES, MORAL WORLDVIEWS AND THE CULTURE WAR

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Title:	TRADITIONAL AUTHORITY ATTITUDES, MORAL WORLDVIEWS AND THE CULTURE WAR
Author:	ENRIGHT, NANCY K
Description:	This paper uses attitudes toward traditional authority as a proxy for moral worldviews. Traditional authority is then used to predict attitudes toward the culture war battles abortion, homosexuality, birth control and euthanasia. The moral worldview construct of traditional authority and Biblical literalism provide more explanatory power than social groups, providing further proof of a culture war. Traditional authority is also studied as a predictor of attitudes toward science and science knowledge in novel ways. It appears that science may be an emerging battle in the culture war. Capital punishment and affirmative action are also studied, but no evidence of a culture war is found. In all cases, traditional authority captures unique variation not tapped by attitudes toward Biblical literalism, and together they appear to form a larger construct of the source of moral authority and worldview.
Permanent Link:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1092805089 http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/9621
Date:	2004

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