WHAT DOES AMERICA THINK? 485CRITICAL THINKING|DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- The disparity between lower- and upper-class respondents with regard to opinions on this
question is very large. What do you think explains this disparity? - Where do you place yourself on the social class ladder? How does your position inform your
own opinion on improving standard of living?
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.