Images of the world in the year 2000 : a comparative ten nation study

Preface Contents List of participants in the Year 2000 project List of abbreviations and explanations PART I Introduction 1 On the future, future studies and future attitudes 2 Optimism versus pessimism PART II National samples compared 3 The future: A forgotten dimension 4 The future: A dimension being discovered 5 Data, methods, interpretations: A discussion 6 Replication on a nation: The Federal Republic of Germany 7 Replication on a youth group: The students 8 The Japanese image of the future 9 Opinions' shift in time PART III The social background of the images 10 Images of the woman and the family 11 Age groups and the future 12 War and peace as conceived in various social group 13 Social strata and attitudes towards peace and wa 14 Social position and the image of the future PART IV The content of the images 15 Homology of predictions and wishes 16 The powerful, the powerless and the future 17 Knowledge of military alliances 18 Young believers in a world state 19 Social structure and ideologies of peace 20 Intranational and international social position and peace attitudes 21 Images of other people's images PART V Conclusions 22 The future : Forgotten, and to be discovered PART VI Appendix 23 History and organization of the Year 2000 project 24 The basis and background of data interpretation 25 Description of the Indian sample 26 Social position, dogmatism and social participation as independent variables 27 The Year 2000 questionnaire and the marginals of 11 nations 28 List of questionnaire items with abbreviations used 29 List of project publications 30 Short biographies of the authors Index of names Index of subjects