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Please read the article entitled “Changing Public Opinion on Same‐Sex Marriage: The Case of California” (2008) by Gregory Lewis and Charles W Gossett. Answer the following questions which correspond to the reading. Your responses will be evaluated both according to content and style. 

 

Please turn in a hard copy of your work. No late assignments or emails will be accepted.

 

 

According to the authors, how might Californians differ from the nation in terms of their attitudes toward same sex marriage?

When did same sex marriage become an issue on the national agenda? When did it become an issue in California?

What have some national surveys found with respect to support for same sex marriage? What are some potential reasons why support may be different in California?

How did the Field Poll measure support for same sex marriage? What were the independent variables that were measured?

Looking at Figure 1, describe the difference between the Field Poll data and the data from other national research organizations?

What were the time points in which support for same sex marriage were measured? How has support changed over these timer periods?

In which groups has support changed the most? Which are the strongest predictors of support for same sex marriage?

Explain the three patterns that stand out in the data with respect to support for same sex marriage.

How might the results from California instructive for the rest of the country?

 

 In your opinion, what is one strength of this type of research and what is a weakness? With respect to the weakness you indicate, how would you adjust for the weakness?

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