Abstract
Do people really get more conservative as they get older? Or is the observation of old-age conservatism an artifact of the cross-sectional method of stirvey research? Questions such as these, concerning the relationship of a basic and irreversible behavioral phenomenon—chronological aging-to attitudes and predispositions (e.g. conservatism), are highly significant for under standing change in social and political systems. The cross-sectional photo graph of human behavior usually given by survey research may in fact show that the older members of a population are more conservative than the younger. But a longitudinal look at this behavior reveals that differences in age are more strongly related to generational than to maturational differences.
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