NEGRO STUDENT REBELLION AGAINST PARENTAL POLITICAL BELIEFS.

In their May 1963 article that appeared in the journal Social forces, Student Rebellion Against Parental Political Beliefs, writers Russell Middleton and Snell Putney discussed one aspect of political socialization, that of reaction of young adults to their parents political beliefs. Testing, as they did, a sample drawn from several public and private institutions in the four geographic regions of the United States, their results reveal this process of political socialization amongst the predominant white group in the society. The present article attempts to compare their results with a similar study undertaken at a primarily Negro institution, in order to suggest any differences that may appear in this process between the subgroup and the predominant group. The data for this study were collected by means of anonymous questionnaires administered to 396 students. The two authors, in their 1963 article, noted the lack of comparable data over time with which to view the direction of any rebellion. Author of this article hopes to help fill such a gap and to suggest some awareness of the political socialization process among students of a minority ethnic group.