GSS 1972-2024 Cumulative Datafile - Release 3

I'd like you to imagine that you want to buy each of the following 
items or services. Would you rather buy them from a business or 
service provider with whom you had some family or social 
relationship, or from a seller or provider with whom you had no prior 
personal contact. Please tell me the number that best represents your 
feeling with respect to each of the purchases listed. 
C. Legal services

I'd like you to imagine that you want to buy each of the following 
items or services. Would you rather buy them from a business or 
service provider with whom you had some family or social 
relationship, or from a seller or provider with whom you had no prior 
personal contact. Please tell me the number that best represents your 
feeling with respect to each of the purchases listed. 
D. Home maintenance (e.g., carpentry, painting)

I'd like you to imagine that you want to buy each of the following 
items or services. Would you rather buy them from a business or 
service provider with whom you had some family or social 
relationship, or from a seller or provider with whom you had no prior 
personal contact. Please tell me the number that best represents your 
feeling with respect to each of the purchases listed. 
E. A house or condominium

Now imagine that one of your relatives sees the car and wants to buy 
it. How likely would you be to mention the car's history of 
transmission problems (if this person did not ask)?

People usually get a better price for goods or services when they get 
them from friends than when they deal with strangers.

When friends buy or sell something to friends, discussing price is 
usually awkward or puts somebody on the spot.

Consider the following situation: A small factory produces tables and 
sells all that it can make at $200 each. because of changes in the 
price of materials, the cost of making each table has recently 
decreased by $20. The factory does not lower its price for the 
tables. Is this acceptable or unfair?

Recently, medical science has made it possible to save lives by 
transplanting body parts from donors to patients who need them. But 
for some body organs there are not enough to go around, and some 
patients die before they can obtain a transplant. When only one organ 
is available and several patients need it for survival, the organ 
could be assigned to a patient by one of the following procedures: 
(READ PROCEDURES ON SHOWCARD) 
By auction: The organ is assigned to the patient who can pay the most 
for it. 
By first come, first served: the organ is assigned to the patient who 
has been waiting the longest. 
By lottery: The organ is assigned to the patient whose name is drawn 
at random. 
By merit: The organ is assigned to the patient who can make the 
greatest contribution to others and society. 
A. Which of these procedures should be used to assign the organ among 
the patients who need it for survival: auction, first come/first 
served, lottery, or merit? (CODE ONE RESPONSE ONLY)

Recently, medical science has made it possible to save lives by 
transplanting body parts from donors to patients who need them. But 
for some body organs there are not enough to go around, and some 
patients die before they can obtain a transplant. When only one organ 
is available and several patients need it for survival, the organ 
could be assigned to a patient by one of the following procedures: 
(READ PROCEDURES ON SHOWCARD) 
By auction: The organ is assigned to the patient who can pay the most 
for it. 
By first come, first served: the organ is assigned to the patient who 
has been waiting the longest. 
By lottery: The organ is assigned to the patient whose name is drawn 
at random. 
By merit: The organ is assigned to the patient who can make the 
greatest contribution to others and society. 
B. Which of these procedures would be the worst way to assign an 
organ? (CODE ONE RESPONSE ONLY)

A body organ that is much in need and that people may contribute are 
kidneys. Most people can live with only one kidney, though their 
chances of survival are better if they have two. Do you believe that 
people with two healthy kidneys should be permitted to sell a kidney 
to a hospital or organ center to use for transplants?

As you know, when a parent is unable to care for a baby, the parent 
often puts the baby up for adoption. For certaIn kinds of babies, the 
number of couples who want to adopt is much greater than the number 
of babies available for adoption. What do you think is the best way 
to match birth mothers with couples who want to adopt?

Recently, some married couples who are unable to have children have 
paid women, called "surrogate mothers," to bear a child for them. 
When the child is born, the couple becomes its adoptive parents and 
the surrogate mother receives a fee. Do you think that this practice 
should be permitted or forbidden under the law?

How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements:
A. There is nothing inherently wrong with prostitution, so long as 
the health risks can be minimized. If consenting adults agree to 
exchange money for sex, that is their business.