ABSTRACT
The questionnaire itself was designed to build up a sociological and political profile of Alarm UK’s activist base amongst affiliated local groups and individual supporters; thus it included standard questions relating to occupation, income, class, age, gender, ethnicity, housing, and education, together with more complex questions that related to political attitudes, environmental issues, membership of other organisations, lifestyle, types of activism and reasons for activism. The questionnaire also included a revised version of Inglehart’s test (1977, 1990) for post-materialism and questions taken from recent British Social Attitudes surveys which are useful for the purposes of comparison. Due to the demands of space and cogency only selected survey results are presented in this chapter; the full results will be published by the University of Glasgow in 2000 as part of the PhD for which the research has been conducted.
