The organization of attitudes toward the Negro as a function of education.

Kahn, Lessing A.

doi:10.1037/h0093637

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“…As noted earlier, these results suggest that education may have paradoxical effects on expressions of racism and group dominance. On the one hand, there is a sizable body of evidence suggesting that direct expressions of racism tend to decrease with increasing levels of education (e.g., Kahn, 1951; Lipset, 1960; McClosky & Zaller, 1984; Sidanius et al, 1991; Sinclair, Sidanius, & Levin, 1998). At the same time, however, it is also now clear that generalized predispositions (e.g., conservatism), policy-relevant issue considerations (e.g., principled objections), and racial-policy attitudes (e.g., opposition to affirmative action) become more strongly linked to racism and other expressions of group dominance as people become more educated.…”

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Racism, ideology, and affirmative action revisited: The antecedents and consequences of "principled objections" to affirmative action.

Federico

Sidanius

2002

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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In 2 studies, the antecedents and consequences of "principled objections" to affirmative action (specific, "race-neutral" reasons for opposing the policy) among Whites were examined. In Study 1, data from a probability sample of Los Angeles adults indicated the following: (a) that principled-objection endorsement was driven not merely by race-neutral values but also by dominance-related concerns like racism; (b) that principled objections mediated the effects of group dominance; and (c) that education strengthened-rather than attenuated-the relationship between dominance-related concerns and principled objections, whereas it left the relationship between race-neutral values and the latter essentially unchanged. In Study 2, the education findings were conceptually replicated in a panel study of undergraduates: The completion of additional years of college boosted the correlation between racism and principled objections, whereas it had no effect on the predictive power of conservatism. These results provide support for a general group-dominance approach, which suggests that factors like racism continue to shape White opposition to race-targeted policies.

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Racism, ideology, and affirmative action revisited: The antecedents and consequences of "principled objections" to affirmative action.

Federico

Sidanius

2002

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

201

189

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“…Education is another background characteristic that may be relevant to rural residents' greater support for restrictive immigration. In this vein, numerous studies demonstrate that better educated individuals espouse less prejudiced views (Kahn, 1951;Lipset, 1960;McClosky and Zaller, 1984;Sinclair et al, 1998;Zaller, 1992). Part of this effect may be explained by the fact that education is yet another component of socio-economic status on which rural residents are disadvantaged, compared to urban and suburban residents.…”

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Rural Residence as a Determinant of Attitudes Toward US Immigration Policy

Fennelly

Federico

2008

International Migration

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Between 1990 and 2000, the foreign‐born population in the United States increased by 57 per cent, compared to a 13 per cent increase in the native‐born population. This growth has fueled considerable media attention and has fomented some anti‐immigrant sentiments. Although a number of authors have charted changes in support for restrictionist immigration policies, few have examined their determinants. In this paper, we focus on region of residence and use data from a 2004 telephone survey of a nationally representative sample of 1888 adults to test the hypothesis that rural Americans are more likely to support restrictive immigration policies than individuals in urban and suburban communities. In a series of regression analyses, this hypothesis is confirmed; rural residents hold the most restrictionist views. Additional analyses indicate that this effect of rural residence on policy attitudes is mediated by attitudes toward multiculturalism, the perceived traits of immigrants, and perceptions about the costs of immigration. Ultimately, the analyses indicate that the perceived cost of immigration is the single strongest predictor of support for restrictive immigration policies, and that it best accounts for rural residents’more restrictionist views.

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“…Furthermore, there is no evidence that such a combination has interfered with the achievement of homogeneous attitude scales [91,96,1531. Factorial studies by Gage [50] and by Kahn [77] on attitudes toward the Negro show both kinds of items reflecting the same general factor.…”

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“…No name for the whole genus of terms is in common usage, but "disposition" has been used occasionally in psychology and sociology for this purpose, as by Stout in 1899 [155, pp. [76][77][78][79][80][81] and by Faris in 1931 [47, p. 71. If we add a qualifier and make it "behavioral disposition," the usage is not out of keeping with that of philosophy.…”

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