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An Exploratory Look At University Students' Attitudes Toward Welfare Recipients, Glen Leonard Lantz
An Exploratory Look At University Students' Attitudes Toward Welfare Recipients, Glen Leonard Lantz
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The purpose of this study was to discover if university students use victim blaming explanations to gain understanding as to why someone receives welfare assistance. A sub-problem in this study was to discover the extent that university students employ individualistic, familial, structural, and fatalistic explanations in their attempts to comprehend why some families are recipients of welfare. Also, the study attempted to find if relationships exist between victim blaming and other personal characteristics such as cultural estrangement, social criticism, affiliation, income, and political orientation.
The subjects of this study were 245 individuals attending the University of Northern Iowa, both graduates …