Race-Class Stereotypes

Bayton, James A.; McAllister, Lois B.; Hamer, Jeston

doi:10.2307/2293141

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“…Their finding indicated that social acceptance was positively related to the academic status of the rated target; the higher the targets' educational status, the more students were willing to interact at a greater degree of intimacy. The conclusion that current social asymmetry among integrated Israeli students may be educationally rather than ethnically linked concurs with Bayton, McAlister & Hamer's (1956) study on race-class stereotypes in the United States. Bayton and his colleagues also found stereotypes to vary more as a function of class than of race.…”

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Carry‐over of contact effects from acquainted to unacquainted targets

Schwarzwald

Fridel

Hoffman

1985

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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This study assesses the degree to which changes in interethnic acceptance, due to contact under integration, generalize to one's views of unknown or stereotypic group members. Subjects consisted of 2,530 seventh-, eighth-, and ninth-grade Western and Middle-Eastern students in integrated Israeli junior high schools. A unidimensional scale was employed to measure willingness to engage in activities of varying degrees of intimacy with acquainted classmates from both Western and Middle-Eastern origins, as well as with unacquainted potential classmates depicted in stereotypic ethnic photographs. Facilitating effects hypothesised for contact were reflected in the finding that prior acquaintance significantly elevated the degree of social acceptance that subjects reported for target persons of both groups, even though this effect of acquaintance did not alter with duration of contact. Changes in the pattern of inter-ethnic acceptance from acquainted targets did not carry over in acceptance patterns for unacquainted targets. Analysis suggested that respondents used educational status as the determinant of acceptance for acquainted targets, but continued to employ ethnicity in regard to unacquainted targets. These findings were discussed in regard to the theoretical meaning of contact and possible options to boosting successful integration.The 'contact hypothesis' maintains that in order to reduce prejudice against invididuals one has to come to meet and to know them (Amir, 1976;Stephan, 1978). Though the contact hypothesis is based on common sense, several underlying processes are considered to be involved: (a) similarity recognition -individuals from different groups realise that they share more attitudes and beliefs than they had previously assumed; (b) disconfirmation of stereotypical beliefs -individuals realise that their beliefs have no basis in reality, and the resulting cognitive inconsistencies drive relearning processes of attitudinal change; (c) exposure effect -repeated exposure is believed to

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Carry‐over of contact effects from acquainted to unacquainted targets

Schwarzwald

Fridel

Hoffman

1985

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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“…One early study by Bayton, McAlister, and Hamer ( 1956) found that stereotyped judgments by both black and white participants were influenced primarily by the class, not race, of the target persons. That is, upper-class blacks and upper-class whites were viewed similarly and more positively than lower-class whites and lower-class blacks.…”

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Likability of Strangers as a Function of Their Winner/Loser Status, Gender, and Race

Lott

1986

The Journal of Social Psychology

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“…T h e stereotype of Negroes given by these Negro college students suggests that they have accepted the stereotype of Negroes as given by the larger white culture ( 7 ) . When the stereotype of the Negro was divided into lower-and upper-class Negroes, the stereotype of the upper-class Downloaded by [University of Dayton] at 01:29 05 January 2015 Negro held by whites was closer to that of the white than to the lowerclass Negro (8). Reigrotski and Anderson (56) noted that the German stereotype of themselves seemed to be, in part, assimilated from the stereotype of the German held by the French, but the reverse was not true.…”

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