Right young things:
It’s a survey of slightly dubious methodology – but it seems that Young Fogey-ism has crossed over, from the high-brow fashionistas to the youth mainstream. It confirms the findings of several surveys – the 2002 Corporate Edge survey of 1000 young people’s attitude to Britishness, and the authorititive British Social Attitudes survey of 2003 – that the return to Thatcherite values is being driven by those who were children or not even born when Mrs Thatcher was first elected in ’79.
Right young things (young fogeyism)
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by Simon
12 Mar 2004 at 05:11
Slightly dubious? Slightly?!! This is a survey of 12-18 year old girls, so to start with there’s no gender balance in the survey, and second, well, they’ve surveyed the kind of teenager that reads Bliss magazine, for Christ’s sake!
There’s not really any response to lax 70s attitudes as the survey makes no direct reference to them -these are just suburban, upper-working to lower-middle class attitudes, and pretty much as conservative as they were in the nineties, the eighties, and the seventies. Wow. Next they’ll be telling us water is wet and that people in other countries speak foreign languages…
by Dlog
12 Mar 2004 at 12:10
No, it was a survey of boys _and_ girls. Partly in the magazine and partly online. Commissioned by them from a reputable survey designer – although I regard _all_ self-completed questionairres as methodologically suspect.
And… I probably wouldn’t have mentioned it, but I did because it follows other – more trustworthy – attitude-surveys in 2003, which showed much the same shifting of values…
“There is a widespread hardening of attitudes … the British Social Attitudes survey says, and it is being driven by the generation who were children or not even born when Mrs Thatcher came to power.” See: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3561-925232,00.html