`Every Year Roger Jowell and his colleagues at the National Centre for Social Research produce a fascinating snapshot of our beliefs. Over time (today's is the 17th in the British Social Attitudes series) the pictures become a movie of contemporary mores' - Guardian`BSA's topical and well informed reports...have become an indispensable tool not just for governments, but also for modern citizens to understand their fellows, and themselves, better' - Times Higher Education Supplement`I've always enjoyed reading the British Social Attitudes survey, which shows what the British people really think, as opposed to what journalists and politicians like to pretend they think' - John PilgerThis indispensable annual British Social Attitudes Survey compiles, describes and comments on a range of current social attitudes and charts changes in British social values. The 17th Report summarizes and interprets data from the most recent survey, and makes comparisons with findings from previous years.

The Generation Game - Alison ParkHealth Care Rationing - Caroline Bryson and Bill New A Cut too Far?The Working Class and New Labour - Geoffrey Evans A Parting of the Ways?Sex and the Media - Annette Hill and Katarina Thomson A Shifting LandscapeThe Gender Gap - Kerstin Hinds and Lindsey JarvisLosing Faith - Nan Dirk De Graaf and Ariana Need Is Britain Alone?Images of Council Housing - Peter A KempIs the English Lion about to Roar? - John Curtice and Anthony Heath National Identity After DevolutionTown and Country Life - Nina Statford and Ian ChristieBegging as a Challenge to the Welfare State - Michael Adler, Catherine Bromley and Michael Rosie