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- Title
Are Right-Wing Attitudes and Voting Associated with Having Attended Private School? An Investigation Using the 1970 British Cohort Study.
- Authors
Wiggins, Richard D; Parsons, Samantha; Green, Francis; Ploubidis, George B; Sullivan, Alice
- Abstract
This article addresses the question of whether attending a private school affects voting behaviour and political attitudes in adulthood in Britain. The analysis is based upon the British Cohort Study, a nationally representative cohort of children born in one week in April 1970. The 'effect' of attending a private school on the tendency to vote Conservative in four consecutive General Elections, and on the expression of conservative attitudes in mid-life is assessed using path analysis. The model includes multiple indicators for a range of antecedents: social origins at birth, cultural and material capital, academic achievements and early social class destination. Once these antecedents are included in the model, for both men and women a direct positive relationship remains between attending private school and voting Conservative and holding right-leaning attitudes. The main significance of these findings follows from the high proportion of private school alumni in influential positions in public life.
- Subjects
VOTING; PRIVATE schools; RIGHT &; left (Political science); POLITICAL attitudes; ELECTIONS
- Publication
Sociology, 2023, Vol 57, Issue 6, p1280
- ISSN
0038-0385
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/00380385221141386