The Center for Research in Society and Politics provides a forum for faculty and students from Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology and Communication Studies who study mass politics and participation, race and ethnicity, and the mass media from overlapping and complementary perspectives. The Center is committed to three programs which use the talents and skills of its diverse faculty.
The LACSS is conducted each year to measure the perceptions, beliefs, and enduring orientations that shape current attitudes toward issues such as crime, immigration, intergroup relations, racial policies, and local and national politics. Topics vary from year to year. The 2002 survey focused on intergroup relations in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11th.
CRISP sponsors a seminar series that provides an opportunity for UCLA faculty and graduate students to discuss research conducted by visiting scholars as well as by each other. A working paper series based on the research of faculty, graduate associates, and seminar and colloguium presenters is also provided by the Center.
Using the Los Angeles County Social Survey as a resource, undergraduate students learn survey research techniques in upper-division courses in public opinion, voting, mass communications, political psychology, race attitudes, and survey data analysis.
There are 11 publications in this collection, published between 1996 and 2002.
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