WHAT DOES AMERICA THINK? 379CRITICAL THINKING|DISCUSSION QUESTION
- How would you account for the racial differences in responses? The largest numbers of
individuals in the category of “other” are of Hispanic or Asian descent. Can you think of any
cultural explanations for the disparity? Why do you think there was very little difference
based on gender or social class?
3 Go to this website to look further at the data. You can run your own statistics and crosstabs
here: http://sda.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/hsda?harcsda+gss04
REFERENCES:Davis, James A., Tom W. Smith, and Peter V. Marsden. General Social Surveys
1972–2004: [Cumulative file] [Computer file]. 2nd ICPSR version. Chicago, IL: National Opinion Research
Center [producer], 2005; Storrs, CT: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut;
Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research; Berkeley, CA: Computer-Assisted
Survey Methods Program, University of California [distributors], 2005.