Changing Same-Sex Marriage Attitudes in America from 1988 Through 2010
Changing Same-Sex Marriage Attitudes in America from 1988 Through 2010
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DOI：
10.1093/poq/nfs022
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发表时间：
2012-06-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Baunach, Dawn Michelle
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作者：
Baunach, Dawn Michelle
这份研究报告考察了随着时间的推移，人们对同性婚姻的态度发生了变化。使用OLS回归和分解技术来分析一般社会调查数据，我解释了1988年至2004年，2006年，2008年和2010年个人对同性婚姻的态度。随着时间的推移，对同性婚姻态度的影响有很大的不同。许多通常被认为会增加对同性婚姻反对的特征（包括非洲裔美国人，居住在美国南部，是福音派新教徒，以及共和党人）只在晚年与态度有关。在1988年，所有人的反对率普遍要高得多;大多数受访者在1988年表示至少有一些强烈反对同性婚姻，然后在受过高等教育的城市居民和那些不那么保守或没有宗教信仰的人中有所减少。也就是说，在1988年，对同性婚姻的支持相当局限于特定的亚群体。但是，到2010年，对同性婚姻的支持更加广泛，对同性婚姻的反对变得更加局限于特定的亚群体，如美国人、南方人、非洲裔美国人、福音派新教徒和共和党人。分解分析发现，改变同性婚姻的态度不是由于美国人口的人口变化。相反，从1988年到2010年，同性婚姻态度的自由化主要是由于社会态度的普遍变化，正如常数的巨大变化所证明的那样。总的来说，结果表明，对同性婚姻态度的变化反映了文化的转变。
This research note examines changes in attitudes toward same-sex marriage over time. Using OLS regression and decomposition techniques to analyze General Social Survey data, I explain individuals' attitudes toward same-sex marriage from 1988 to 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010. The influences on same-sex marriage attitudes differed substantially over time. Many of the characteristics commonly thought to increase opposition to same-sex marriage (including being African American, living in the southern United States, being an evangelical Protestant, and being Republican) are associated with attitudes only in the later years. In 1988, opposition was generally much higher for everyone; most respondents expressed at least some to strong disapproval of same-sex marriage in 1988, which was then reduced for the highly educated, urban residents, and those with less conservative or no religious affiliations. That is, support for same-sex marriage was fairly localized to specific subgroups in 1988. But, by 2010, support for same-sex marriage was much more broad-based, and opposition to same-sex marriage became more localized to specific subgroupsolder Americans, southerners, African Americans, evangelical Protestants, and Republicans. The decomposition analysis finds that changing same-sex marriage attitudes are not due to demographic changes in the American population. Rather, the liberalization in same-sex marriage attitudes from 1988 to 2010 is due primarily to a general societal change in attitudes, as is evidenced by the large change in the constant. Taken together, the results suggest that changing attitudes toward same-sex marriage reflect a cultural shift.