Social Justice Attitudes and Their Demographic Correlates Among a Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Adolescents

Social Justice Research

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 422-444

  Grayman, Justina Kamiel ^a   Godfrey, Erin B ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Political attitudes; Principle implementation gap; Public opinion; Social justice attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888379462     PISSN: 08857466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11211-013-0196-9     Document Type: Article

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