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Changes in the Values of College Students

Many observers of the contemporary scene have placed emphasis on the apparent change in values among university students. Reich (1970) and Roszak (1968) have heralded changes in culture and consciousness which may have revolutionary consequences for American society. While emphasis has been placed on differences in attitudes between young and old, an equally striking difference would appear to exist between the youth of today and the youth of the 1950s. This change in the youthful generation is of significance for the theory of generational conflict (Goertzel, 1972). Generational differences have sometimes been attributed to differences in the social situations of young and old people (Eisenstadt, 1956). This theoretical model suggests that as young people progress from a youthful to an adult social situation, their values would change correspondingly. This sort of generational difference inperspectives is a constant in human societies, but it does not explain why young people in one historical period differ from young people in another. An alternative model, suggested by Mannheim (1952), places emphasis on the formative nature of certain periods in the