Individual threat, group threat, and racial policy: Exploring the relationship between threat and racial attitudes

Rosenstein, Judith E.

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2008.04.001

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“…The latter assumes that groups formed along ethnic or racial lines will engage in “identity politics,” working to support their internal interests and thereby challenging the in‐group's political power (Olzak ). Threat can also operate at the individual level, for example, through fear of job loss or fear of intermarriage with a member of the out‐group (Rosenstein ). Group size is used to represent other kinds of threats, including individual‐level direct economic, cultural, and political threats (Ceobanu and Escandell ).…”

Section: Group Threat Theory and Group Size In Contextmentioning

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Does Size Really Matter? On the Relationship between Immigrant Group Size and Anti-Immigrant Prejudice

Pottie‐Sherman

Wilkes

2017

International Migration Review

122

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Group threat theory understands prejudice as a manifestation of the threat, either actual or assumed, that minority groups pose to majority groups. This theory is often operationalized by analyzing the impact of group size on anti-immigrant prejudice. We test this hypothesis with a new dataset documenting 487 effects of group size on prejudice provided in 55 studies. More than half of these results show no relationship and the remainder shows both positive and negative relationships. Three explanations for this divergence are that there are (1) differences in the measurement of prejudice and immigrant group size across studies; (2) differences in the model through which size is hypothesized to lead to prejudice; and (3) differences in the geographic unit of analysis at which these relationships have been considered. Our analyses support the measurement explanation: results vary across studies because they reflect different measures of group size and prejudice.

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Section: Group Threat Theory and Group Size In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Size Really Matter? On the Relationship between Immigrant Group Size and Anti-Immigrant Prejudice

Pottie‐Sherman

Wilkes

2017

International Migration Review

122

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“…Bobo 1983; Bobo and Zubrinsky 1996) as well as those of their group (e.g. Rosenstein 2008; Smith 1981). …”

Section: Theories Of Prejudice: the Group Threat And Contact Hypothesesmentioning

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Warmth of the Welcome: Attitudes Toward Immigrants and Immigration Policy in the United States

2014

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Natives' attitudes toward immigrants and immigration policy are important factors in the context of reception of immigrants since they contribute to a warm or chilly welcome, which potentially shapes immigrant and ethnic identities and inter-group relations. Public opinion polls show a recent “warming” of Americans' traditional ambivalence about immigration. Empirical research on attitudes toward immigrants and racial groups formed by recent waves of immigrants resonate with the dynamic nature of Blumer's (1958) theory of prejudice as a sense of relative group position. To better understand this dynamism, research that intentionally contrasts study sites on conflict and contact conditions and the presence of absence of symbolic politics, as well as research with different native-born racial and ethnic groups, would reveal a broader range of natives' attitude formation processes and the role they play in immigrant reception.

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“…As mentioned above, there is a debate about the objective or constructed nature of ethnic threat (Bobo, ; Fetzer, ; McLaren, ; Sniderman and Hagendoorn, ; Hjerm and Nagayoshi, ). While some researchers build upon a realistic interpretation of group conflict theory and test the effect of objective economic indicators (Quillian, ), others believe that these indicators might not be perceived as threatening by the relevant actors and therefore deem subjective perceptions of threat as theoretically more appropriate (Rosenstein, ).…”

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“…It is important to note that the perceptions of threat referred to by group conflict theorists is not the dependent variable itself, but the theoretical mechanism accounting for the relationship between economic conditions and concern about immigration. As discussed above, perceptions of collective and individual threat can be distinguished conceptually, but are not mutually exclusive and can actually reinforce each other (Rosenstein, ). It is intuitive to think that becoming unemployed is an individual threat, but we cannot preclude the possibility that this threat extends to the individual's social group.…”

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Group Conflict Theory in a Longitudinal Perspective: Analyzing the Dynamic Side of Ethnic Competition

Lancee

Pardos‐Prado

2013

International Migration Review

100

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One of the most established approaches to explain attitudes toward immigration is group conflict theory. However, even though the theory was articulated in dynamic terms, previous research has almost exclusively tested it through cross‐sectional analyses. The aim of this study is to disentangle the dynamic character of ethnic competition from more permanent determinants of ethnic threat. The findings show that a remarkable variation of concern over immigration, usually attributed to permanent positions of economic vulnerability, disappears when within‐person variation is modeled. In line with a dynamic approach of ethnic competition, becoming unemployed or being laid off increases concern over immigration. This effect is independent of social class.

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Individual threat, group threat, and racial policy: Exploring the relationship between threat and racial attitudes

Cited by 44 publications

References 46 publications

Does Size Really Matter? On the Relationship between Immigrant Group Size and Anti-Immigrant Prejudice

Does Size Really Matter? On the Relationship between Immigrant Group Size and Anti-Immigrant Prejudice

Warmth of the Welcome: Attitudes Toward Immigrants and Immigration Policy in the United States

Group Conflict Theory in a Longitudinal Perspective: Analyzing the Dynamic Side of Ethnic Competition

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