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Shall the youth of Zion falter? Mormon youth and sex: a two-city comparison

Dialogue: a journal of Mormon thought10 (2)Published In 1977 • Pages: 82-84

By: Mauss, Armand L..

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This short article reports the results of a survey of Mormon attitudes concerning pre-and extra-marital sex, contraception, marriage with a non-Mormon, swearing, watching movies or TV on Sunday, and smoking. It compares attitudes in Salt Lake City with those of Mormons in a northern California city, and breaks responses down into five age groups.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Premarital sex relations
Extramarital sex relations
Conception
Adolescence, adulthood, and old age
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Mormons
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
2018
RegionThe area the document pertains to
North America
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Southwest and Basin
Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
article
Evaluation
Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Sociologist
Indigenous Person
Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
5: Excellent Primary Data
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
Martin Malone ; 1979
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1967-1969
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1967-1969
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Salt Lake City, Utah and northern California, United States
NotesAdditional notes
Armand L. Mauss
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Mormons