The Polls: America's Most Important Problems Part II: Regional, Community, and Personal

摘要: THE most important problem question helps us understand both the broad strokes and fine details of recent American history. It illuminates secular trends such as emergence disappearance civil rights a social concern gauges impact on public consciousness specific events from riots to recessions. The parallel series sectional, community, personal problems add even greater depth our historical sociological understanding, especially by demonstrating that frequently differ across frames reference. questions are invaluable for portraying explaining history change society has been undergoing.' Tracking (Tables 1, 2, 3) considerable information about post-World War II period (each these starts in mid late forties decade after national series). These variants not merely concerns writ small. Typically, bring mind quite different sets problems. Rather than having only one salient expressing national, regional, local, contexts, people often chose reference changes.2 largest obvious