Survey for Sociology Class -- Could Use a Little Help
Hey Everyone,
I had to choose a topic for a paper/short presentation due in a couple weeks for my sociology class (an elective at my engineering school). One of the ways for conducting research was through a survey. I have always believed that I write better when I write about something I enjoy and am interested in....so this led me to writing about Libritarians, or less specifically - people who tend to put little faith in government regulation. I was hoping to get around 50 surveys, the more the better!
To put it simply, I am just looking for quick concise answers to the questions below. I am asking these questions based on the main idea behind sociology - to study what effects peoples social lives, surrounds, and uprings, (and other factors), does to peoples beliefs, lives, and attitudes (and other things).
I have a theory about what to expect for most answers, however I may be wrong, at which point I would have to create a new hypothesis to explain why I didn't anticipate the results.....mainly just have fun with this and keep in mind this is nothing scientific or anything that is going to get printed in any major review, just graded by a professor (I hope she is a Ron Paul fan) and presented to my class....enjoy.
Questions
Every question is optional incase you don't want to disclose the info, I like many of you am often hesitant :) Please just post your answers on the forum or email me at farrellr@msoe.edu
1) Are you male or female?
2) How old are you?
3) What is a close approximation to your current yearly income? Also, as a child what social class would you say your family was? (please chose one of the four: lower, lower-middle, upper-middle, or higher economic class)
4) What type of city do you live in? (rural, suburb, small town, large city, etc...)
5) What is the highest level of education you have finished?
6) If you have a college degree or are going for a college degree, what field of study were/are you in?
7) What is your current occupation?
8) Do you own any firearms, and if so do you hunt or participate in shooting sports?
9) What type of political leanings did your mother and father have? (Democrat, Republican, if other explain a little)
10) What do you feel played the biggest role in your current political/world views? (parents, internet, friends, books, tv, etc.)
11) Have you changed your political beliefs throughout your life? If so how many times?
12) What do you feel is the most important topic in U.S. politics right now?
13) Is the internet your main source for news? If not, what type of media do you often use?
14) Have you ever been arrested for any reason?
15) At any point in your life, have you actually run for an office? (This does not include thinking about running for office!)
16) At what age did you prescribe to your current political views?
Again please post your results on the forum or email them to me at the email listed below......
Thanks for taking the survey! The results will go toward a paper and a presentation taking a look at the traits of Liberty minded people! If you have any questions or comments, you can either post them or email me at farrellr@msoe.edu
THANK YOU!
1) Are you male or female?
1) Are you male or female? M
2) How old are you? 30
3) What is a close approximation to your current yearly income? Also, as a child what social class would you say your family was? (please chose one of the four: lower, lower-middle, upper-middle, or higher economic class) 40G? Lower-middle
4) What type of city do you live in? (rural, suburb, small town, large city, etc...) Portland, ME semi large I guess.
5) What is the highest level of education you have finished? middle school, but self educated , and done well.
6) If you have a college degree or are going for a college degree, what field of study were/are you in? I plan to study Biology or Anthropology
7) What is your current occupation? Military, for the next 17 days!!!!!
8) Do you own any firearms, and if so do you hunt or participate in shooting sports? Yes, but no hunting, ever. Target shooting.
9) What type of political leanings did your mother and father have? (Democrat, Republican, if other explain a little) Common sense, but they are Libertarian.
10) What do you feel played the biggest role in your current political/world views? (parents, internet, friends, books, tv, etc.) internet, discovering Dr' Paul
11) Have you changed your political beliefs throughout your life? If so how many times? I was pretty liberal a few years back, until I learned the importance of fiscal responsibility.
12) What do you feel is the most important topic in U.S. politics right now? Foreign policy and the Fed/economics
13) Is the internet your main source for news? If not, what type of media do you often use? Yes
14) Have you ever been arrested for any reason? Yes, but not in a long time.
15) At any point in your life, have you actually run for an office? (This does not include thinking about running for office!) No
16) At what age did you prescribe to your current political views? 28
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Responses
1) Are you male or female? F
2) How old are you? 28
3) What is a close approximation to your current yearly income? Also, as a child what social class would you say your family was? (please chose one of the four: lower, lower-middle, upper-middle, or higher economic class)
I earn approx $60k/year. More if you include my husband.
We were definately lower-middle
4) What type of city do you live in? (rural, suburb, small town, large city, etc...) Small Town
5) What is the highest level of education you have finished? College
6) If you have a college degree or are going for a college degree, what field of study were/are you in? Accounting - Business Admin
7) What is your current occupation? CPA
8) Do you own any firearms, and if so do you hunt or participate in shooting sports? Yes. No hunting or shooting
9) What type of political leanings did your mother and father have? (Democrat, Republican, if other explain a little) Republican with some Liberal on certain issues.
10) What do you feel played the biggest role in your current political/world views? (parents, internet, friends, books, tv, etc.) Parents and Internet
11) Have you changed your political beliefs throughout your life? If so how many times?
Yes. I used to be more of a neo-con. Now, I am older and wiser. I would consider myself a constitutionalist now because people have twisted "Republican" to mean something different.
12) What do you feel is the most important topic in U.S. politics right now?
Monetary policies, fiscal responsibility
13) Is the internet your main source for news? If not, what type of media do you often use?
Most definately Internet!
14) Have you ever been arrested for any reason?
No
15) At any point in your life, have you actually run for an office? (This does not include thinking about running for office!)
No
16) At what age did you prescribe to your current political views?
26
I support the constitution!!!
Nah.
I think I'll keep you from profiling me for other COINTELPRO to use against me.
Traits of liberty minded. people.. That's a good one.
So I sadly wasn't exactly
So I sadly wasn't exactly sure what COINTELPRO was. After googling it i now know.......my only question is that isn't the stuff in the survey stuff the FBI would already know if they wanted to know it? I would exclude the firearm question though, how would they know if you had guns if you didn't participate in DNR hunting licensing?
Anyway, I got sidetracked, if you feel cointelpro is going to use it, by all means don't fill it out....
Wow thanks for all the
Wow thanks for all the responses guys (and now gals too!) Since I have been pointing out things of interest as I read through these, I will share this thought. Most people who answered the question about firearms say they don't own any....and yet we all are for the defense of the right to own and use them. I look forward to touching on that fact that its about a higher moral law and not just about personal safety and recreation. Very cool, thanks again.
1) M 2) 34 3)
1) M
2) 34
3) 30k-ish
Childhood progressed from Higher, to Lower, to Lower Middle
4) Small Town
5) AA degree
6) Mine was just general AA. If I went farther, would have been something to do with music and/or sound.
7) information manager
8) Yes, No
9) R & R
10) Life Experience... Parents, Books, Teachers and just stuff in my life.
11) I think my beliefs have generally been the same, just my understanding of Labels has changed with odd periods of wrong-headedness. ("this isn't what I thought it was" type thing)
12) To ME it's avoiding centralization, to the general pop... probably getting entitlements.
13) Yes. Other main source is radio.
14) Yes.
15) No, but I was elected precinct chairman in the county republican party.
16) As early as I can remember.
1) Are you male or female?
1) Are you male or female? M
2) How old are you? 33
3) What is a close approximation to your current yearly income? Also, as a child what social class would you say your family was? (please chose one of the four: lower, lower-middle, upper-middle, or higher economic class) 30k, Lower-Middle
4) What type of city do you live in? (rural, suburb, small town, large city, etc...) Small city, 750k
5) What is the highest level of education you have finished? Bachelors
6) If you have a college degree or are going for a college degree, what field of study were/are you in? Information Technology
7) What is your current occupation? Client Representative for an M&A firm
8) Do you own any firearms, and if so do you hunt or participate in shooting sports? No
9) What type of political leanings did your mother and father have? (Democrat, Republican, if other explain a little) Republican
10) What do you feel played the biggest role in your current political/world views? (parents, internet, friends, books, tv, etc.) September 11th, 2001, American society in general
11) Have you changed your political beliefs throughout your life? If so how many times? Yes, Once
12) What do you feel is the most important topic in U.S. politics right now? Economy
13) Is the internet your main source for news? If not, what type of media do you often use? Yes
14) Have you ever been arrested for any reason? No
15) At any point in your life, have you actually run for an office? (This does not include thinking about running for office!) No
16) At what age did you prescribe to your current political views? Mid 20s
1) Are you male or female?
1) Are you male or female? M
2) How old are you? 40
3) What is a close approximation to your current yearly income? Also, as a child what social class would you say your family was? (please chose one of the four: lower, lower-middle, upper-middle, or higher economic class)
$35,000 / lower,lower middle
4) What type of city do you live in? (rural, suburb, small town, large city, etc...)
Large town
5) What is the highest level of education you have finished? One college
6) If you have a college degree or are going for a college degree, what field of study were/are you in?
7) What is your current occupation? Realtor
8) Do you own any firearms, and if so do you hunt or participate in shooting sports?
Can't stand em. Thinking about getting one
9) What type of political leanings did your mother and father have? (Democrat, Republican, if other explain a little)
Mother - socialist but knew needed some capitalism to keep the cows fattened
Father - Pragmatist
10) What do you feel played the biggest role in your current political/world views? (parents, internet, friends, books, tv, etc.)
Friends, books
11) Have you changed your political beliefs throughout your life? If so how many times?
Just a progression from the mush to individual.
12) What do you feel is the most important topic in U.S. politics right now?
Fed
13) Is the internet your main source for news? If not, what type of media do you often use?
14) Have you ever been arrested for any reason?
No
15) At any point in your life, have you actually run for an office? (This does not include thinking about running for office!)
No
16) At what age did you prescribe to your current political views?
25
Thanks
When is a survey not a survey?
In statistics, "survey" has a very precise meaning. It should be conducted from a representative "sample." If you use results from the DP, then you should make it clear that you surveyed a sampling of volunteers from the DP. This would hardly represent the general public.
When is a survey not a survey? When the MSM conducts a poll with an agenda, or reports one conducted by a biased party, or when you get those push-polls that aren't really surveys.
IMissLiberty
IMissLiberty
Ok, I'll bite
I see below that you are aware that this is a survey of DP'ers, so, here goes:
1) Are you male or female? Female
2) How old are you? 54
3) What is a close approximation to your current yearly income? Also, as a child what social class would you say your family was?
lower-middle
4) What type of city do you live in? small town surrounded by Los Angeles
5) What is the highest level of education you have finished? B.S. in Business Administration
6) If you have a college degree or are going for a college degree, what field of study were/are you in?
7) What is your current occupation? Legal Assistant/small business owner
8) Do you own any firearms, and if so do you hunt or participate in shooting sports? No, and no.
9) What type of political leanings did your mother and father have? Democrat and Republican (one each), however, they had libertarian parenting styles, as both were raising adults, not children.
10) What do you feel played the biggest role in your current political/world views? parents
11) Have you changed your political beliefs throughout your life? If so how many times? I was born libertarian, however I became a libertarian activist and joined the LP after age 45 -- when I finally decided ignoring government wasn't going to work. I don't tolerate being treated with less respect than my parents gave me.
12) What do you feel is the most important topic in U.S. politics right now? Who's in charge?
13) Is the internet your main source for news? If not, what type of media do you often use? The DP is my main source of news, followed by various websites.
14) Have you ever been arrested for any reason? No.
15) At any point in your life, have you actually run for an office? (This does not include thinking about running for office!) No, but I sponsored a ballot measure to reduce utility taxes.
16) At what age did you prescribe to your current political views? I was born with the idea I was the center of the universe, and that I own my life. ;) I'm one of those people who became sick and tired of being burdened with regulations because other people were being irresponsible.
IMissLiberty
IMissLiberty
survey response
1) Are you male or female?
Male
2) How old are you?
36
3) What is a close approximation to your current yearly income? Also, as a child what social class would you say your family was? (please chose one of the four: lower, lower-middle, upper-middle, or higher economic class)
150k, lower-middle
4) What type of city do you live in? (rural, suburb, small town, large city, etc...)
small town
5) What is the highest level of education you have finished?
graduate school/masters
6) If you have a college degree or are going for a college degree, what field of study were/are you in?
mathematics/computer science
7) What is your current occupation?
software engineer
8) Do you own any firearms, and if so do you hunt or participate in shooting sports?
no
9) What type of political leanings did your mother and father have? (Democrat, Republican, if other explain a little)
Democrat
10) What do you feel played the biggest role in your current political/world views? (parents, internet, friends, books, tv, etc.)
personal experience/observations of others actions
11) Have you changed your political beliefs throughout your life? If so how many times?
yes, once. formerly Reagan Conservative, now Libertarian
12) What do you feel is the most important topic in U.S. politics right now?
stopping inflationary Monetary Policy that leads to irresponsible government
13) Is the internet your main source for news? If not, what type of media do you often use?
internet
14) Have you ever been arrested for any reason?
yes
15) At any point in your life, have you actually run for an office? (This does not include thinking about running for office!)
no
16) At what age did you prescribe to your current political views?
29
Cool thank you for the help.
Cool thank you for the help. Question 16 has been all over the place, maybe there is still hope for some of my family!
1) Are you male or female?
1) Are you male or female? M
2) How old are you? 35
3) What is a close approximation to your current yearly income? Also, as a child what social class would you say your family was? (please chose one of the four: lower, lower-middle, upper-middle, or higher economic class) Lower-middle 150K
4) What type of city do you live in? (rural, suburb, small town, large city, etc...) rural
5) What is the highest level of education you have finished? graduate
6) If you have a college degree or are going for a college degree, what field of study were/are you in?
Cultural Anthropology/Marketing
7) What is your current occupation?
Artist/Entrepeneur
8) Do you own any firearms, and if so do you hunt or participate in shooting sports? Yes, yes
9) What type of political leanings did your mother and father have? (Democrat, Republican, if other explain a little) R and D
10) What do you feel played the biggest role in your current political/world views? (parents, internet, friends, books, tv, etc.) Books, seminars, college classes
11) Have you changed your political beliefs throughout your life? If so how many times? Zero
12) What do you feel is the most important topic in U.S. politics right now? The ongoing subversion
13) Is the internet your main source for news? If not, what type of media do you often use? Yes. Used to be obscure book stores and college library stacks.
14) Have you ever been arrested for any reason? Yes
15) At any point in your life, have you actually run for an office? (This does not include thinking about running for office!) Yes and won handily.
16) At what age did you prescribe to your current political views? 13
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Thanks for the help, these
Thanks for the help, these are fun to read. I look forward to putting these together, its so neat hearing a little about how we got here!
Actually, my gut reaction is
Actually, my gut reaction is that this RP support profiling would sure help the opposition's campaign.
1st...how? 2nd...I'm in
1st...how?
2nd...I'm in downtown Milwaukee, the only people around here with a Libritarian mindset are friends ive converted.
3rd...if there is a problem with any questions let me know specifically, or answer ones you are comfortable with.
4th...I really just want some #s for the final paper here, no harm at all :)
1) Are you male or female?
1) Are you male or female? M
2) How old are you? 23
3) What is a close approximation to your current yearly income? Also, as a child what social class would you say your family was? (please chose one of the four: lower, lower-middle, upper-middle, or higher economic class) 15k, come from a middle class home.
4) What type of city do you live in? (rural, suburb, small town, large city, etc...) Clearwater, small city.
5) What is the highest level of education you have finished? finished high school, in my last year of college.
6) If you have a college degree or are going for a college degree, what field of study were/are you in? Social Science with a minor in History
7) What is your current occupation? student
8) Do you own any firearms, and if so do you hunt or participate in shooting sports? nope, and nope
9) What type of political leanings did your mother and father have? (Democrat, Republican, if other explain a little) Father is a Republican and mother is a Southern Democrat.
10) What do you feel played the biggest role in your current political/world views? (parents, internet, friends, books, tv, etc.) A wide variety of things had an impact but the largest was probably journal articles.
11) Have you changed your political beliefs throughout your life? If so how many times? Three times; communist to neoconservative to libertarian.
12) What do you feel is the most important topic in U.S. politics right now? The rapid increase of government power and programs.
13) Is the internet your main source for news? If not, what type of media do you often use? I subscribe to five different news magazines but I get the majority of my news from the internet.
14) Have you ever been arrested for any reason? Hahaha, never.
15) At any point in your life, have you actually run for an office? (This does not include thinking about running for office!) No, when you run for office and serve in office you need to monitor everything you say. I prefer being able to say what I feel and supporting those who do run for office.
16) At what age did you prescribe to your current political views? I solidified my current political positions at the age of twenty.
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Politicians today aim to grow our economy by burning our cities to the ground, instead they should take a lesson in economic theory.
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Thanks, I didn't anticipate
Thanks, I didn't anticipate the neat story part of this. I realize now I'm not the only one who bounced around a lot before landing on libritarianism. Thanks for taking the time, I realize after looking at the survey how much time it actually takes.
Yeah
It seems most of the people our age in the movement came out of some type of ultra neocon or ultra neoliberal background.
No problem, the survey wasn't all that long but yeah you're going to find that you basically have to strong-arm people into filling them out. Is the survey directed towards people in the liberty movement? What's your hypothesis, if you don't mind my asking?
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http://will86aber.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/growing-the-econo...
Politicians today aim to grow our economy by burning our cities to the ground, instead they should take a lesson in economic theory.
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My hypothesis (and I know
My hypothesis (and I know this isn't the stuff of Sociologist legend) is that there is a large gathering of people from different economic classes, trades, education levels etc...getting behind one message of limited government. So yes this is targeted specifically for Liberty minded people and is limited by those who mostly use the internet.
I do anticipate a mostly male and mostly young response based on the fact this is mostly open debate and online...sorry if any older people are offended.
Basically I have my own idea on what I anticipate a typical answer to be for each question. For starters, since I used to be a member of a 'George Bush is God' family, I never questioned anything until I realized how sick I was getting from trying to defend his policies to people outside my family.
I had a major political switch due to the 08 elections. I anticipated most people having only one major political mindset change at most in their lifetime, especially those under the age of 30. Already I see one person with two, and you with three! I would draw the conclusion that you put some time and thought into your decision and were trying to find solutions to the world around you.
I don't want to go into each question specifically here while people are still filling out surveys, but as I said before this isn't exactly groundbreaking material anyway lol. I mostly wanted write about something other than how race affects your opportunities in life and how being rich makes life easy --like the other students in my class are.
1) Are you male or female?
1) Are you male or female? M
2) How old are you? 22
3) What is a close approximation to your current yearly income? Also, as a child what social class would you say your family was? (please chose one of the four: lower, lower-middle, upper-middle, or higher economic class) 45k, upper middle
4) What type of city do you live in? (rural, suburb, small town, large city, etc...) suburb
5) What is the highest level of education you have finished? Undergrad.
6) If you have a college degree or are going for a college degree, what field of study were/are you in? Criminology/Criminal Justice
7) What is your current occupation?
Grant Manager at non-profit
8) Do you own any firearms, and if so do you hunt or participate in shooting sports?
no
9) What type of political leanings did your mother and father have? (Democrat, Republican, if other explain a little)
democrat
10) What do you feel played the biggest role in your current political/world views? (parents, internet, friends, books, tv, etc.)
Private schooling, Talk radio, internet
11) Have you changed your political beliefs throughout your life? If so how many times?
2
12) What do you feel is the most important topic in U.S. politics right now?
The wars.
13) Is the internet your main source for news? If not, what type of media do you often use?
Internet, some local talk radio.
14) Have you ever been arrested for any reason?
No
15) At any point in your life, have you actually run for an office? (This does not include thinking about running for office!)
No
16) At what age did you prescribe to your current political views?
20
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THANKS!
THANKS!
I'd be happy to participate!
For a modest fee, I'd be happy to participate. How much are you willing to compensate those willing to participate?
Just a no response from ur high horse
would suffice.
I shared my opinon and thoughts as did you
Thanks for your valuable opinon.
Ah, well it would be just
Ah, well it would be just another chance to spread the word to people that might not of heard the words 'liberty' or 'Ron Paul'. Is that compensation enough? I would send you money -- if I had any, and we all know that unless its gold its gonna be worthless anyway!
Isn't that the truth.
The FRN is on it's way to not being worth the paper it's printed on.
As for my information, thanks but I'll pass. Information is a commodity, and I believe that people, generally speaking, have been conditioned to give up their personal information a bit too easily and willingly. I've started asking anyone who asks me for information how much it's worth to them. And while I know you didn't ask me specifically, I enjoy taking advantage of the opportunities to educate others that present themselves.
That said, I'm certain that you'll still find plenty of people willing to give you what you're asking for anyway.
Well thanks anyway, I am
Well thanks anyway, I am willing to bet a majority of people on this site feel the same way about these sorts of things. I figured I should aim high for sample size and expect low numbers considering how much privacy is a big issue to most of us.
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self help bump.