Political Ideology I

Topics: satisfaction with the economic situation and general contentment with life; assessment of social injustice in the FRG and designation of privileged or disadvantaged population groups; preference of political goals; postmaterialism; evaluation of social problems as well as assignment of responsibility for solutions to the government; evaluation of government activities on problem solving; personal willingness to participate in political protests; role of the uses of force in social change and assumed goals of political use of force; evaluation of conduct government offices in political conflict; party identification; behavior at the polls in the Federal Parliament election 1972; self-assessment of social class; assessment of personal political effectiveness; general judgement on youth protest; trust in the Federal Government; earlier economic conditions of parents; socialization authorities in childhood; social origins; party preference of parents; personal unemployment and judgement on one´s own job security; membership in clubs or a trade union as well as degree of activity in the organization; self-assessment on a left-right continuum; goals in professional life; good and bad sides of the parties.

Among young people: contact with parents; relation to family and friends; topics of conversation and differences of opinion with parents; classification of parents on a left-right continuum; concepts of future life; relation with friends; occupation of friends. Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; family composition; religious denomination; religiousness; school education; vocational training; employment; professional career; income; household income; head of household; social origins.