Abstract
Many researchers have observed a strong relationship between the level of education and the new political alignment, which is often described as cultural. Longitudinal research in Flanders, however, has revealed that higher education, as such, hardly influences the position on the new alignment. The strong relationship with the level of education is largely the result of selective access to higher education. That finding implies that the formation of those attitudes should be studied in young people, not only in adults. On the basis of a 2002 random sample of 1420 young people, aged 14–18, this article analyzes how differences in attitudes evolve over the course of secondary schooling, and how those differences are affected by educational tracking and mass media use. The findings are used to address empirical and theoretical issues in understanding the formation of attitudes.
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