John B Mcconahay
Biographic Data
| ID | 258043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John B Mcconahay |
| GIVEN NAMES | John B |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcconahay |
| SIGNATURE | MCCONAHAY J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 490 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Natural experiments and the educational context
The 1-year impact of attending a public alternative high school on two cohorts of adolescents who gained entrance to the school through a lottery was studied. Adolescents who had applied to the school but were not selected in the lottery served as a control group. The nature of the alternative high school environment is described, and the outcome of this natural experiment defined in terms of reactions to school, attitude change, and student achi…
Modern Racism and Modern Discrimination
Researchers in American race relations have demonstrated the ambivalence white Americans feel toward black Americans. The prejudiced white behaves positively or negatively toward blacks depending on the context of the behavior, while the less prejudiced white behaves more consistently across contexts. In this study, the ambivalence concept was used to demonstrate the construct validity of a relatively nonreactive scale of racial prejudice-the Mod…
Self-Interest versus Racial Attitudes as Correlates of Anti-Busing Attitudes in Louisville
Traditional political analysis assumes that policy attitudes of the American public are influenced more by personal self-interest than values or ideology. A symbolic politics approach holds that policy preferences are more the result of the residues of early political and value socialization, especially when the policies are linked to racial or ethnic groups. In this article, the relative strengths of the self-interest and symbolic politics appro…
Has Racism Declined in America
In recent years as public opinion polls have shown a decline in racist responses, white Americans have strongly resisted school desegregation and affirmative action programs. Hence, there has been a debate over the extent to which racism has really declined. The theory of modern racism addresses these issues, distinguishing between old-fashioned racial beliefs recognized by everyone as racism and a new set of beliefs arising from the conflicts of…
Sexual Permissiveness, Sex‐Role Rigidity, and Violence across Cultures
The possible relationships between sexual permissiveness, sex‐role rigidity, and violence at the societal level are examined. Two judges independently rank ordered the levels of sexual permissiveness of a random sample of 17 cultures chosen from the Human Relations Area Files. A second set of two judges rank ordered the rigidity of these cultures' sex roles, and a third set of judges rank ordered the cultures on their levels of intra‐ and extra‐c…
Symbolic Racism
Symbolic racism is the expression by suburban whites in terms of abstract ideological symbols and symbolic behaviors of the feeling that blacks are violating cherished values and making illegitimate demands for changes in the racial status quo. In this paper, the correlates of symbolic racism from a sample of seminary students and of voters in a Los Angeles suburb are presented. Measures of symbolic racism predicted voting preferences for a white…
How Being Interviewed Affects Voting
Journal Article HOW BEING INTERVIEWED AFFECTS VOTING: AN EXPERIMENT Get access ROBERT E. KRAUT, ROBERT E. KRAUT Assistant Professor of Sociology graduate student in the Department of Psychology, Yale University. He is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JOHN B. McCONAHAY JOHN B. McCONAHAY Professor of Political Science and Psychology …
Love and Guilt-Oriented Dimensions of Christian Belief
Four dimensions of religious belief related to the Love-Guilt complex in Christian theology were proposed along with a fifth dimension of Conventionalism or culture-oriented belief. A universe of items thought to tap these dimensions was administered to 160 students from three seminaries in Southern California and the data were submitted to a Likert scaling technique. The final scales measured Guilt-oriented, Love-oriented (both Self-centered and…
Racial Socialization, Comparison Levels, and the Watts Riot 1
Participation in the Los Angeles Riot
Data from a survey of the black community in Los Angeles, conducted shortly after the Watts riot, are analyzed to provide a clearer picture of the people involved in the riot. About 15 percent of the area's residents were active in the riot, with another 30 percent as “close spectators.” It was perceived as a proximate and immediate event, touching personally most of the ghetto residents. Degree of proximity did not, however, distinguish those ad…
Has Racism Declined in America
In recent years as public opinion polls have shown a decline in racist responses, white Americans have strongly resisted school desegregation and affirmative action programs. Hence, there has been a debate over the extent to which racism has really declined. The theory of modern racism addresses these issues, distinguishing between old-fashioned racial beliefs recognized by everyone as racism and a new set of beliefs arising from the conflicts of…
Symbolic Racism
Symbolic racism is the expression by suburban whites in terms of abstract ideological symbols and symbolic behaviors of the feeling that blacks are violating cherished values and making illegitimate demands for changes in the racial status quo. In this paper, the correlates of symbolic racism from a sample of seminary students and of voters in a Los Angeles suburb are presented. Measures of symbolic racism predicted voting preferences for a white…
Self-Interest versus Racial Attitudes as Correlates of Anti-Busing Attitudes in Louisville
Traditional political analysis assumes that policy attitudes of the American public are influenced more by personal self-interest than values or ideology. A symbolic politics approach holds that policy preferences are more the result of the residues of early political and value socialization, especially when the policies are linked to racial or ethnic groups. In this article, the relative strengths of the self-interest and symbolic politics appro…
How Being Interviewed Affects Voting
Journal Article HOW BEING INTERVIEWED AFFECTS VOTING: AN EXPERIMENT Get access ROBERT E. KRAUT, ROBERT E. KRAUT Assistant Professor of Sociology graduate student in the Department of Psychology, Yale University. He is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JOHN B. McCONAHAY JOHN B. McCONAHAY Professor of Political Science and Psychology …
Racial Socialization, Comparison Levels, and the Watts Riot 1
Participation in the Los Angeles Riot
Data from a survey of the black community in Los Angeles, conducted shortly after the Watts riot, are analyzed to provide a clearer picture of the people involved in the riot. About 15 percent of the area's residents were active in the riot, with another 30 percent as “close spectators.” It was perceived as a proximate and immediate event, touching personally most of the ghetto residents. Degree of proximity did not, however, distinguish those ad…
Natural experiments and the educational context
The 1-year impact of attending a public alternative high school on two cohorts of adolescents who gained entrance to the school through a lottery was studied. Adolescents who had applied to the school but were not selected in the lottery served as a control group. The nature of the alternative high school environment is described, and the outcome of this natural experiment defined in terms of reactions to school, attitude change, and student achi…
Sexual Permissiveness, Sex‐Role Rigidity, and Violence across Cultures
The possible relationships between sexual permissiveness, sex‐role rigidity, and violence at the societal level are examined. Two judges independently rank ordered the levels of sexual permissiveness of a random sample of 17 cultures chosen from the Human Relations Area Files. A second set of two judges rank ordered the rigidity of these cultures' sex roles, and a third set of judges rank ordered the cultures on their levels of intra‐ and extra‐c…
Love and Guilt-Oriented Dimensions of Christian Belief
Four dimensions of religious belief related to the Love-Guilt complex in Christian theology were proposed along with a fifth dimension of Conventionalism or culture-oriented belief. A universe of items thought to tap these dimensions was administered to 160 students from three seminaries in Southern California and the data were submitted to a Likert scaling technique. The final scales measured Guilt-oriented, Love-oriented (both Self-centered and…
Participation in the Los Angeles Riot
Data from a survey of the black community in Los Angeles, conducted shortly after the Watts riot, are analyzed to provide a clearer picture of the people involved in the riot. About 15 percent of the area's residents were active in the riot, with another 30 percent as “close spectators.” It was perceived as a proximate and immediate event, touching personally most of the ghetto residents. Degree of proximity did not, however, distinguish those ad…
Racial Socialization, Comparison Levels, and the Watts Riot 1
How Being Interviewed Affects Voting
Journal Article HOW BEING INTERVIEWED AFFECTS VOTING: AN EXPERIMENT Get access ROBERT E. KRAUT, ROBERT E. KRAUT Assistant Professor of Sociology graduate student in the Department of Psychology, Yale University. He is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JOHN B. McCONAHAY JOHN B. McCONAHAY Professor of Political Science and Psychology …
Love and Guilt-Oriented Dimensions of Christian Belief
Four dimensions of religious belief related to the Love-Guilt complex in Christian theology were proposed along with a fifth dimension of Conventionalism or culture-oriented belief. A universe of items thought to tap these dimensions was administered to 160 students from three seminaries in Southern California and the data were submitted to a Likert scaling technique. The final scales measured Guilt-oriented, Love-oriented (both Self-centered and…
Symbolic Racism
Symbolic racism is the expression by suburban whites in terms of abstract ideological symbols and symbolic behaviors of the feeling that blacks are violating cherished values and making illegitimate demands for changes in the racial status quo. In this paper, the correlates of symbolic racism from a sample of seminary students and of voters in a Los Angeles suburb are presented. Measures of symbolic racism predicted voting preferences for a white…
Sexual Permissiveness, Sex‐Role Rigidity, and Violence across Cultures
The possible relationships between sexual permissiveness, sex‐role rigidity, and violence at the societal level are examined. Two judges independently rank ordered the levels of sexual permissiveness of a random sample of 17 cultures chosen from the Human Relations Area Files. A second set of two judges rank ordered the rigidity of these cultures' sex roles, and a third set of judges rank ordered the cultures on their levels of intra‐ and extra‐c…
Has Racism Declined in America
In recent years as public opinion polls have shown a decline in racist responses, white Americans have strongly resisted school desegregation and affirmative action programs. Hence, there has been a debate over the extent to which racism has really declined. The theory of modern racism addresses these issues, distinguishing between old-fashioned racial beliefs recognized by everyone as racism and a new set of beliefs arising from the conflicts of…
Self-Interest versus Racial Attitudes as Correlates of Anti-Busing Attitudes in Louisville
Traditional political analysis assumes that policy attitudes of the American public are influenced more by personal self-interest than values or ideology. A symbolic politics approach holds that policy preferences are more the result of the residues of early political and value socialization, especially when the policies are linked to racial or ethnic groups. In this article, the relative strengths of the self-interest and symbolic politics appro…
Modern Racism and Modern Discrimination
Researchers in American race relations have demonstrated the ambivalence white Americans feel toward black Americans. The prejudiced white behaves positively or negatively toward blacks depending on the context of the behavior, while the less prejudiced white behaves more consistently across contexts. In this study, the ambivalence concept was used to demonstrate the construct validity of a relatively nonreactive scale of racial prejudice-the Mod…
Natural experiments and the educational context
The 1-year impact of attending a public alternative high school on two cohorts of adolescents who gained entrance to the school through a lottery was studied. Adolescents who had applied to the school but were not selected in the lottery served as a control group. The nature of the alternative high school environment is described, and the outcome of this natural experiment defined in terms of reactions to school, attitude change, and student achi…
Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)