New Scotland, New Society? : : Are Social and Political Ties Fragmenting? / / David McCrone, Lindsay Paterson, John Curtice, Alison Park.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Curtice, John,; McCrone, David,; Park, Alison,
• MitwirkendeR: Barlow, Anne,; Bromley, Catherine,; Curtice, John,; Hinds, Kerstin,; Jamieson, Lynn,; Mccrone, David,; Park, Alison,; Paterson, Lindsay,; Surridge, Paula,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (234 p.)

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9781902930350);New Scotland, New Society asks a series of vital questions regarding the attitudes and behaviour of the Scots. Are the ties that bind people to each other and to the democratic system fragmenting? Do people no longer trust each other? How do people relate to each other in terms of social trust? How do they relate to social institutions such as the family and systems of morality? Is constitutional reform restoring that trust? Drawing on the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey and its predecessors, the overall aim of the book is to provide an independent account of public opinion in post-devolution Scotland.Chapters will cover a range of contemporary debates. Attitudes to key issues such as co-habitation, teenage pregnancy, religion, sexuality, abortion, and racial prejudice will be explored. The capacity of Scotland's new political institutions to restore trust will be questioned, and the links between the trust which people have in each other and the trust they have in their institutions will be tested. These attitudes will be set in context over time and also in comparison with the rest of the UK, to see how attitudes have developed, and whether Scottish attitudes are distinctive.Much of the public debate in Scotland in recent years has been about constitutional and political change. This book moves beyond these issues to look at their social basis. It asks whether popular attitudes might actually be even more fundamental than the undoubtedly important constitutional upheaval that Scotland has recently experienced."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 SOCIAL CAPITAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM -- 3 REJECTING TRADITIONAL FAMILY BUILDING? ATTITUDES TO COHABITATION AND TEENAGE PREGNANCY IN SCOTLAND -- 4 COHABITATION AND MARRIAGE IN SCOTLAND: ATTITUDES, MYTHS AND THE LAW -- 5 SCOTLAND'S MORALS -- 6 SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY: THE NEW SCOTLAND -- 7 DEVOLUTION AND DEMOCRACY: NEW TRUST OR OLD CYNICISM? -- 8 A NATION OF REGIONS? -- 9 GOVERNING FROM THE CENTRE: IDEOLOGY AND PUBLIC POLICY -- 10 CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX: TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF THE SURVEYS