Politieke onafhanklikheid vir Kwazulu: ‘n empiriese analise van studentehoudings

Abstract

Historically, two major developments in social science have converged to permit and provoke the political scientist's interst in attitude survey research. The first is the improvement in survey methods and methodology. A particular methodology is followed in this article in which the basic components of an attitude survey are analised, i.e. the nature of the concept “attitude”; the political relevance as regards the phenomenon of the group of which attitudes are measured; the nature of the phenomenon; and the survey methods applied such as sampling, scale construction, pilot study, administration, and statistical expression of findings etc. The second historic impetus to the political scientist ‘s interest in attitude survey research is the recent flowering of comparative politics, with its special focus on modernising societies. In this regard, KwaZulu is classified as a modernising society. The nature of student involvement in the independence struggle of the Third World is used as a frame of reference to analyse Zulu students’ attitudes. The application of this phenomenon to KwaZulu also takes cognizance of the ideological expectations of separate development.