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Does religion affect public attitudes in Britain?

Law and order, social equality and abortion are contentious issues. Does religious affiliation have an impact on public attitudes to these subjects?

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This article shows the interesting things that sociologists can do with secondary data — in this case, information from the British Social Attitudes survey of 2008.

Ben Clements takes four important social issues on which people are likely to have differing views, and examines these by using the variable of religious affiliation — taking different religions and those with no professed religion. Look carefully at the tables he provides and note the important points.

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