ABSTRACT
Differences in the belief systems, value systems, and feelings of Ins and Outs regarding the Church can be considered a product of change only if it can be shown that Ins and Outs were once alike in their attitudes toward Catholicism. This chapter discusses how the subjects were located and how they assigned themselves to either of the two major groups, possible interviewer effects in collecting the data, the demographic information on the subjects, and how salient Catholicism had been to them before they began to re-evaluate it. For those subjects who were not graduate students, a broad variety of life styles was evidenced. Representation along the political spectrum seemed complete, from subjects on the left who advocated an “American revolution” and were involved in radical political action to one on the right who disapproved of “encyclicals that imply the poor have a right to the possessions of the rich.”
