BACKGROUND
David Tindall's primary areas of interest are social movements and social networks. Of particular interest is the Wilderness Preservation Movement in British Columbia, Canada, which he has been studying for about fifteen years.
The first paper provided below used data gathered from the first instrument. It was a study using a social network approach to examine the role that social capital plays in the relationships people have with forested landscapes and to identify the implications of these relationships to forest land-use planning.
The data used in the remainder of the papers listed below all originated from the same survey instrument--the Wilderness Preservation Movement survey. This self-administered survey was used to collect information from members of three environmental groups active in the Wilderness Preservation Movement in Victoria, British Columbia in 1992, including the Sierra Club of Western Canada, the Carmanah Forestry Society and the Western Canada Wilderness Committee. The total combined sample size for all three groups was 381.
A second wave of data collection was completed in 1998 with many of the initial respondents. This latter effort was a telephone interview, where many of the same questions from wave one were asked again, so as to create a longitudinal dataset for analysis. Both the first and second wave were used in the first publication; only the first wave was used in the last two.
The complete instrument is provided below. In addition, the two distinctly social network-oriented items from the survey are also presented individually as well. Note that the survey presented was the version presented to members of the Sierra Club of Western Canada (SCWC) and the instrument is worded as such.
Tindall, D.B. 2004. "Social Movement Participation Over Time: En Ego-Network Approach to MicroMobilization." Sociological Focus 37(2): 163-184. -- Data Type: Ego-network; Measure: Degree.
Tindall, D.B., Scott Davies and Cline Mauboul�s. 2003. "Activism and Conservation Behavior in an Environmental Movement: The Contradictory Effects of Gender." Society and Natural Resources 16(10):909-932. -- Data Type: Ego-network; Measures: Degree and range.
Tindall, D.B. 2002. "Social Networks, Identification and Participation in an Environmental Movement: Low-Medium Cost Activism Within the British Columbia Wilderness Preservation Movement." Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 39(4): 413-452. -- Data Type: Ego-network; Measures: Degree and range.
Human Values Survey - Complete (.PDF)
Wilderness Preservation Movement Survey - Complete (.PDF)
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