Lawrence Bobo
Biographic Data
| ID | 155136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawrence Bobo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawrence |
| FAMILY NAME | Bobo |
| SIGNATURE | BOBO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2952 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study
In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct a systematic investigation of social conditions in the seventh ward of Philadelphia. The product of those studies was the first great empirical book on the Negro in American society. More than one hundred years after its original publication by the Universit…
Prejudice in Politics: Group Position, Public Opinion, and the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Dispute
Racialized politics: The debate about racism in America
Race, Interests, and Beliefs About Affirmative Action: Unanswered Questions and New Directions
Studies of public opinion on affirmative action have focused heavily on the views of White Americans. Two contending schools of thought tend to concur that Whites generally oppose affirmative action, but sharply disagree over whether the hostility to affirmative action rests on cherished American values of individualism or on anti-Black racism. This article questions both perspectives and the assumptions about public opinion that they share. It i…
Laissez-Faire Racism: The Crystallization of a Kinder, Gentler, Antiblack Ideology
Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth, by Claude S. Fischer and Michael Hout and Martin Sanchez Jankowski and Samuel R. Lucas and Ann Swidler and Kim Voss
Journal Article Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth, by Claude S. Fischer and Michael Hout and Martin Sanchez Jankowski and Samuel R. Lucas and Ann Swidler and Kim Voss Get access Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth by Claude S. Fischer, Michael Hout, Martin Sanchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler, and Kim Voss. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1996. 318 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $14.95. Lawrence Bo…
Race, Public Opinion, and the Social Sphere
Journal Article Race, Public Opinion, and the Social Sphere Get access LAWRENCE BOBO LAWRENCE BOBO Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 1, May 1997, Pages 1–15, https://doi.org/10.1086/297784 Published: 01 May 1997
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study
Racism, conservatism, Affirmative Action, and intellectual sophistication: A matter of principled conservatism or group dominance
Using data from 3 different samples, th authors found that: (a) the relationships between political conservatism and racism generally increased as a function of ed cati al sophistication; however, the relationship between political conservatism and anti-Black affect did not increase with educational sophistication. (b) The correlation between political conservatism and racism could be entirely ac-counted for by their mutual relationship with soci…
Perceptions of Racial Group Competition: Extending Blumer's Theory of Group Position to a Multiracial Social Context
Perceptions of threat occupy a central place in race relations in Blumer's theory of prejudice but few direct efforts to study such perceptions exist. Extending Blumer's reasoning, we hypothesize that such perceptions are driven by a group's feelings of racial alienation within the larger social order The more that members of a particular racial group feel collectively oppressed and unfairly treated by society, the more likely they are to perceiv…
Attitudes on Residential Integration: Perceived Status Differences, Mere In-Group Preference, or Racial Prejudice
Journal Article Attitudes on Residential Integration: Perceived Status Differences, Mere In-Group Preference, or Racial Prejudice? Get access Lawrence Bobo, Lawrence Bobo University of California, Los Angeles Please direct correspondence to Lawrence Bobo, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90095-1551. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
Prismatic Metropolis: Race and Residential Segregation in the City of the Angels
African Americans and the New Policy Consensus: Retreat of the Liberal State? Edited by Marilyn E. Lashley and Melanie Njeri Jackson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994. 246p. $55.00
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Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics. Michael C. Dawson
Social dominance orientation and the political psychology of gender: A case of invariance
Social dominance theory assumes transsituational and transcultural differences between men and women in social dominance orientation (SDO), with men showing higher levels of SDO than women. SDO is a general individual-difference variable expressing preference for superordinate in-group status, hierarchical relationships between social groups, and a view of group relations as inherently 0-sum. Data from a random sample of 1,897 respondents from Lo…
Opposition to Race-Targeting: Self-Interest, Stratification Ideology, or Racial Attitudes
Dans cet article les AA. etudient l'opinion americaine concernant la politique raciale. Leur hypothese est que l'interet des individus, les croyances sur l'inegalite et les attitudes raciales different selon l'orientation de la politique mise en oeuvre
Authoritarianism in the General Population: The Education Interaction Hypothesis
The negative association between educational level and measures of authoritarianism has been recognized for many years. Here we present evidence that the problem is treated more usefully as one of statistical interaction: the relation of authoritarianism to other substantive measures is largely artifactual at lower educational levels, but is substantively more meaningful at higher educational levels
Social responsibility, individualism, and redistributive policies
Race, Class, and the Power Elite
A clarification
A clarification
Black Youth, Racism and the State: The Politics of Ideology and Policy
Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and Black Empowerment
Using 1987 national sample survey data that included a large black oversample, we reexamine black-white differences in sociopolitical participation. We hypothesized that increases in black empowerment would affect the level of black sociopolitical participation and change the nature of black-white differences in political behavior. The results show that blacks in high-black-empowerment areas-as indicated by control of the mayor's office-are more …
Polls and Surveys: Understanding What They Tell Us
Education and Political Tolerance: Testing the Effects of Cognitive Sophistication and Target Group Affect
Journal Article EDUCATION AND POLITICAL TOLERANCE: TESTING THE EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE SOPHISTICATION AND TARGET GROUP AFFECT Get access LAWRENCE BOBO, LAWRENCE BOBO Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin Please direct correspondence to Lawrence Bobo, Dept. of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar FREDERICK C. LICARI, Ph.D. FREDERICK C. …
Perceptions of Racial Group Competition: Extending Blumer's Theory of Group Position to a Multiracial Social Context
Perceptions of threat occupy a central place in race relations in Blumer's theory of prejudice but few direct efforts to study such perceptions exist. Extending Blumer's reasoning, we hypothesize that such perceptions are driven by a group's feelings of racial alienation within the larger social order The more that members of a particular racial group feel collectively oppressed and unfairly treated by society, the more likely they are to perceiv…
Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and Black Empowerment
Using 1987 national sample survey data that included a large black oversample, we reexamine black-white differences in sociopolitical participation. We hypothesized that increases in black empowerment would affect the level of black sociopolitical participation and change the nature of black-white differences in political behavior. The results show that blacks in high-black-empowerment areas-as indicated by control of the mayor's office-are more …
Whites' opposition to busing: Symbolic racism or realistic group conflict
The theory of symbolic racism contends that whites' opposition to busing springs from a basic underlying prejudiced or intolerant attitudinal predisposition toward blacks, not self-interest or realistic-gro up conflict motives. The present research argues that realistic group conflict motives do help explain whites' opposition to busing. Two major criticisms of the symbolic racism approach are made: (a) that the tests of symbolic racism versus gr…
Opposition to Race-Targeting: Self-Interest, Stratification Ideology, or Racial Attitudes
Dans cet article les AA. etudient l'opinion americaine concernant la politique raciale. Leur hypothese est que l'interet des individus, les croyances sur l'inegalite et les attitudes raciales different selon l'orientation de la politique mise en oeuvre
Education and Political Tolerance: Testing the Effects of Cognitive Sophistication and Target Group Affect
Journal Article EDUCATION AND POLITICAL TOLERANCE: TESTING THE EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE SOPHISTICATION AND TARGET GROUP AFFECT Get access LAWRENCE BOBO, LAWRENCE BOBO Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin Please direct correspondence to Lawrence Bobo, Dept. of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar FREDERICK C. LICARI, Ph.D. FREDERICK C. …
Attitudes on Residential Integration: Perceived Status Differences, Mere In-Group Preference, or Racial Prejudice
Journal Article Attitudes on Residential Integration: Perceived Status Differences, Mere In-Group Preference, or Racial Prejudice? Get access Lawrence Bobo, Lawrence Bobo University of California, Los Angeles Please direct correspondence to Lawrence Bobo, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90095-1551. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
Racism, conservatism, Affirmative Action, and intellectual sophistication: A matter of principled conservatism or group dominance
Using data from 3 different samples, th authors found that: (a) the relationships between political conservatism and racism generally increased as a function of ed cati al sophistication; however, the relationship between political conservatism and anti-Black affect did not increase with educational sophistication. (b) The correlation between political conservatism and racism could be entirely ac-counted for by their mutual relationship with soci…
Prismatic Metropolis: Race and Residential Segregation in the City of the Angels
Race, Interests, and Beliefs About Affirmative Action: Unanswered Questions and New Directions
Studies of public opinion on affirmative action have focused heavily on the views of White Americans. Two contending schools of thought tend to concur that Whites generally oppose affirmative action, but sharply disagree over whether the hostility to affirmative action rests on cherished American values of individualism or on anti-Black racism. This article questions both perspectives and the assumptions about public opinion that they share. It i…
Social responsibility, individualism, and redistributive policies
Social dominance orientation and the political psychology of gender: A case of invariance
Social dominance theory assumes transsituational and transcultural differences between men and women in social dominance orientation (SDO), with men showing higher levels of SDO than women. SDO is a general individual-difference variable expressing preference for superordinate in-group status, hierarchical relationships between social groups, and a view of group relations as inherently 0-sum. Data from a random sample of 1,897 respondents from Lo…
Survey-Based Experiments on White Racial Attitudes Toward Residential Integration
Using residential integration as the main focus and experiments within national sample surveys as the primary method, this paper examines several theoretical explanations that have been offered for white opposition to government enforcement of black rights to open housing. Each of the following explanations receives some support: resistance to government coercion generally and especially to coercion from the federal government, concern over socia…
Attitudes Toward the Black Political Movement: Trends, Meaning, and Effects on Racial Policy Preferences
This paper examines the influence of prejudice and of conflict-based concern with protecting group position on people's attitudes toward the black political movement. Analyses of national survey data show the existence of black-white differences in trends in attitudes toward the black political movement; in part, these trends reflect differential strategic adaptation to changes in the political context. For many whites, attitudes toward the black…
Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth, by Claude S. Fischer and Michael Hout and Martin Sanchez Jankowski and Samuel R. Lucas and Ann Swidler and Kim Voss
Journal Article Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth, by Claude S. Fischer and Michael Hout and Martin Sanchez Jankowski and Samuel R. Lucas and Ann Swidler and Kim Voss Get access Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth by Claude S. Fischer, Michael Hout, Martin Sanchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler, and Kim Voss. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1996. 318 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $14.95. Lawrence Bo…
Race, Public Opinion, and the Social Sphere
Journal Article Race, Public Opinion, and the Social Sphere Get access LAWRENCE BOBO LAWRENCE BOBO Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 1, May 1997, Pages 1–15, https://doi.org/10.1086/297784 Published: 01 May 1997
Authoritarianism in the General Population: The Education Interaction Hypothesis
The negative association between educational level and measures of authoritarianism has been recognized for many years. Here we present evidence that the problem is treated more usefully as one of statistical interaction: the relation of authoritarianism to other substantive measures is largely artifactual at lower educational levels, but is substantively more meaningful at higher educational levels
Race, Racism, and Power Around the World
Dimensions of Tolerance: What Americans Believe about Civil Liberties
Whites' opposition to busing: Symbolic racism or realistic group conflict
The theory of symbolic racism contends that whites' opposition to busing springs from a basic underlying prejudiced or intolerant attitudinal predisposition toward blacks, not self-interest or realistic-gro up conflict motives. The present research argues that realistic group conflict motives do help explain whites' opposition to busing. Two major criticisms of the symbolic racism approach are made: (a) that the tests of symbolic racism versus gr…
Dimensions of Tolerance: What Americans Believe about Civil Liberties
Race, Racism, and Power Around the World
Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations
Perspectives and Historical Background Problems in Studying Changes in Racial Attitudes Trends in White Racial Attitudes Sources of Change in White Racial Attitudes Trends in Black Racial Attitudes Theoretical Interpretations of White Trends Conclusions Appendix A: Locating and Selecting Trend Questions Appendix B: Statistical Testing Procedures Notes References Index of Survey Questions Index
Group Conflict, Prejudice, and the Paradox of Contemporary Racial Attitudes
Attitudes Toward the Black Political Movement: Trends, Meaning, and Effects on Racial Policy Preferences
This paper examines the influence of prejudice and of conflict-based concern with protecting group position on people's attitudes toward the black political movement. Analyses of national survey data show the existence of black-white differences in trends in attitudes toward the black political movement; in part, these trends reflect differential strategic adaptation to changes in the political context. For many whites, attitudes toward the black…
Survey-Based Experiments on White Racial Attitudes Toward Residential Integration
Using residential integration as the main focus and experiments within national sample surveys as the primary method, this paper examines several theoretical explanations that have been offered for white opposition to government enforcement of black rights to open housing. Each of the following explanations receives some support: resistance to government coercion generally and especially to coercion from the federal government, concern over socia…
Education and Political Tolerance: Testing the Effects of Cognitive Sophistication and Target Group Affect
Journal Article EDUCATION AND POLITICAL TOLERANCE: TESTING THE EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE SOPHISTICATION AND TARGET GROUP AFFECT Get access LAWRENCE BOBO, LAWRENCE BOBO Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin Please direct correspondence to Lawrence Bobo, Dept. of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar FREDERICK C. LICARI, Ph.D. FREDERICK C. …
A clarification
A clarification
Black Youth, Racism and the State: The Politics of Ideology and Policy
Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and Black Empowerment
Using 1987 national sample survey data that included a large black oversample, we reexamine black-white differences in sociopolitical participation. We hypothesized that increases in black empowerment would affect the level of black sociopolitical participation and change the nature of black-white differences in political behavior. The results show that blacks in high-black-empowerment areas-as indicated by control of the mayor's office-are more …
Polls and Surveys: Understanding What They Tell Us
Social responsibility, individualism, and redistributive policies
Race, Class, and the Power Elite
Authoritarianism in the General Population: The Education Interaction Hypothesis
The negative association between educational level and measures of authoritarianism has been recognized for many years. Here we present evidence that the problem is treated more usefully as one of statistical interaction: the relation of authoritarianism to other substantive measures is largely artifactual at lower educational levels, but is substantively more meaningful at higher educational levels
Opposition to Race-Targeting: Self-Interest, Stratification Ideology, or Racial Attitudes
Dans cet article les AA. etudient l'opinion americaine concernant la politique raciale. Leur hypothese est que l'interet des individus, les croyances sur l'inegalite et les attitudes raciales different selon l'orientation de la politique mise en oeuvre
Social dominance orientation and the political psychology of gender: A case of invariance
Social dominance theory assumes transsituational and transcultural differences between men and women in social dominance orientation (SDO), with men showing higher levels of SDO than women. SDO is a general individual-difference variable expressing preference for superordinate in-group status, hierarchical relationships between social groups, and a view of group relations as inherently 0-sum. Data from a random sample of 1,897 respondents from Lo…
African Americans and the New Policy Consensus: Retreat of the Liberal State? Edited by Marilyn E. Lashley and Melanie Njeri Jackson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994. 246p. $55.00
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics. Michael C. Dawson
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study
Racism, conservatism, Affirmative Action, and intellectual sophistication: A matter of principled conservatism or group dominance
Using data from 3 different samples, th authors found that: (a) the relationships between political conservatism and racism generally increased as a function of ed cati al sophistication; however, the relationship between political conservatism and anti-Black affect did not increase with educational sophistication. (b) The correlation between political conservatism and racism could be entirely ac-counted for by their mutual relationship with soci…
Perceptions of Racial Group Competition: Extending Blumer's Theory of Group Position to a Multiracial Social Context
Perceptions of threat occupy a central place in race relations in Blumer's theory of prejudice but few direct efforts to study such perceptions exist. Extending Blumer's reasoning, we hypothesize that such perceptions are driven by a group's feelings of racial alienation within the larger social order The more that members of a particular racial group feel collectively oppressed and unfairly treated by society, the more likely they are to perceiv…
Attitudes on Residential Integration: Perceived Status Differences, Mere In-Group Preference, or Racial Prejudice
Journal Article Attitudes on Residential Integration: Perceived Status Differences, Mere In-Group Preference, or Racial Prejudice? Get access Lawrence Bobo, Lawrence Bobo University of California, Los Angeles Please direct correspondence to Lawrence Bobo, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, California, 90095-1551. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
Prismatic Metropolis: Race and Residential Segregation in the City of the Angels
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