Patricia Gurin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621080 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Gurin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Gurin |
| SIGNATURE | GURIN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1176 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Engaging race and racism for socially just intergroup relations: The impact of intergroup dialogue on college campuses in the United States
This study examines the impact of interracial/interethnic dialogue, a model of intergroup contact that highlights the salience of racial and ethnic group membership, to improve intergroup relations on college campuses. A field experiment involving 737 participants demonstrated that participants randomized to enrol in an intergroup dialogue course increased thinking about and understanding of race and racial/ethnic group membership more than the r…
Intergroup Dialogue: Education for Social Justice
This chapter focuses on intergroup dialogue (IGD), an educational approach that teaches about and for social justice. Intergroup dialogue addresses one of the central concerns in contemporary research on intergroup contact between groups with distinct social statuses: Do identity salience and positive relationships mobilize or sedate collective action on the part of disadvantaged or advantaged groups? We explicate how IGD addresses the concerns t…
From Separate Corners to Dialogue and Action
Informing Theory from Practice and Applied Research
Editors' introduction: Patricia Gurin grew up in southern Indiana where citizens split in support of the South and the North during the Civil War, and where the Ku Klux Klan was founded. After graduating from Northwestern University, she worked with the American Friends Service Committee (the social action voice of the Quakers). Later, after earning her PhD in social psychology at the University of Michigan, she (with Edgar Epps) conducted a stud…
Getting to the What, How , and Why of Diversity on Campus
What kinds of diversity initiatives and cross-racial interactions foster learning among diverse students? In response to that question, the authors trace various social psychological theories that inform campus diversity programs. Making a case for moving beyond traditional intergroup harmony or intragroup solidarity approaches, the authors elaborate on a model that uses group identities as resources for intergroup understanding and collaboration…
The Benefits of Diversity in Education for Democratic Citizenship
The social science statement in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) stressed that desegregation would benefit both African American and White children. Eventually, it was recognized that integration, rather than mere desegregation, was important for benefits to be realized. A parallel argument is made in the legal cases concerning affirmative action in higher education: educational benefits of diversity depend on curricular and co‐curricular exper…
Transformative Pedagogy for Democracy and Social Justice
The authors propose a theoretical model of engaged learning for democracy and justice that draws from multicultural education and critical pedagogy, Freireian dialogic education, and Kolb's active, experiential learning. Engaged learning is defined as applying concepts and ideas from the classroom to out-of-class cognition and action. An empirical investigation (n=203) examines the impact of a course focusing on intergroup relations and social co…
Diversity and Higher Education: Theory and Impact on Educational Outcomes
In the current context of legal challenges to affirmative action and race-based considerations in college admissions, educators have been challenged to articulate clearly the educational purposes and benefits of diversity. In this article, Patricia Gurin, Eric Dey, Sylvia Hurtado, and Gerald Gurin explore the relationship between students' experiences with diverse peers in the college or university setting and their educational outcomes. Rooted i…
II. The Power of the Apfelbaum Analysis
Peer Reviewed
Education and Understanding Structural Causes for Group Inequalities
Group inequalities in the United States are most often attributed to the characteristics of the individuals who belong to these groups; thinking about structural causes of group inequalities is rare. This paper reviews cognitive, cultural, and systemic reasons for this bias. The efficacy of education as a way to increase structural thinking was investigated in two studies of college students' causal thinking about group inequalities. Both studies…
Social Identities -- A Framework for Studying the Adaptations of Immigrants and Ethnics: The Adaptations of Mexicans in the United States
Past treatments of immigration and ethnicity (and of the relationship between them) tend to ignore processes by which the effects of history and social structure occur at the individual level. Many scholars call for social psychological analyses that show how history and macro-social features of the environment produce individual modes of adaptation to immigration, including the construction and reconstruction of ethnicity as one of the modes. We…
Women, politics, and change
Feminist Analyses of Public Policy
Women, Politics, and Change
The Relationships of Intergroup Contact to Social Identity and Political Consciousness
The impact of three forms of intergroup contact (Mexican descent, other minority, and Anglo) on the social identities and political attitudes of a national sample of native-born persons of Mexican descent was examined. Cast within Tajfel's Social Identity theory, the various social contexts were expected to predict three distinct types of ethnic identity: Cultural Ethnicity (Ingroup contact), Politicized Ethnicity (Ingroup and Minority Outgroup c…
Ethnic Identity and Bilingualism Attitudes
Attitudes toward bilingualism among a national sample of persons of Mexican descent are cast in a set of social psychological forces in which structural integration and childhood linguistic environment influence ethnic identity, which in turn influences bilingualism attitudes through its impact on political consciousness. Support is provided by evidence that ethnic identity, specifically a politically-framed conception of self as Chicana/Chicano …
Properties of gender identity and their implications for gender consciousness
Three properties of gender identity—perceived similarity to other women, sense of common fate and centrality of gender to the sense of self—were measured in national surveys of women in the United States. Analyses of their relationships to gender consciousness support the general proposition that these properties of identity are implicated in different ways in collective discontent, criticism of the legitimacy of gender disparities and acceptance…
Myth and Reality: The Causes and Persistence of Poverty
Mary Corcoran, Greg J. Duncan, Gerald Gurin, Patricia Gurin, Myth and Reality: The Causes and Persistence of Poverty, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Summer, 1985), pp. 516-536
Women's Gender Consciousness
Journal Article Women's Gender Consciousness Get access PATRICIA GURIN PATRICIA GURIN Patricia Gurin is Professor of Psychology and Faculty Associate at the Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan, and a Resident Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, New York. The author acknowledges the helpful criticisms of an earlier draft by Arland Thornton and Mary Corcoran of The University of Michigan, Robert K. Merton of Columbia Unive…
Re-Examining the Frustrated Homemaker Hypothesis: Role Fit, Personal Dissatisfaction, and Collective Discontent
Multiple Classification Analyses on responses from 946 white women, drawn from the 1972 American National Election Study survey, were used to test the "frustrated homemaker hypothesis" that full-time homemakers are more dissatisfied with their lives than women employed outside the home. The fit between actual and desired roles proved to be a better predictor of personal satisfaction than the traditional dichotomy between homemakers and employed w…
Labor market experiences and expectancies
Feminist and sympathetic feminist consciousness
Data from the 1976 American National Election Study were used to assess the effects of one outgroup characteristic, belief similarity—dissimilarity, on the enhancement of women's feminist consciousness. Women were focused on as the ingroup and men as the outgroup. The sample consisted of 677 women who believed that women should have an equal role with men. Outgroup belief similarity referred to women's perception that most men supported an equal …
Group Consciousness and Political Participation
This article explores the theoretical and methodological problems underlying the relationship between group consciousness and political participation with data from the Center for Political Studies (CPS) 1972 and 1976 National Election Studies. It delineates four conceptual components of group consciousness and examines their relationships with electoral and nonelectoral participation among both subordinate and dominant social groups. An interact…
Stratum Identification and Consciousness
National sample data were analyzed to describe the identification and class consciousness of people with workingand middle-class occupations, race consciousness of blacks and whites, sex consciousness of women, and age consciousness of people sixty years or older. Stratum consciousness, an ideology about the position of the stratum in society, includes a sense of power discontent, evaluation of the legitimacy of its position, and the view that co…
Traditions in the Social-Psychological Analysis of Race Relations
Group Consciousness and Political Participation
This article explores the theoretical and methodological problems underlying the relationship between group consciousness and political participation with data from the Center for Political Studies (CPS) 1972 and 1976 National Election Studies. It delineates four conceptual components of group consciousness and examines their relationships with electoral and nonelectoral participation among both subordinate and dominant social groups. An interact…
Stratum Identification and Consciousness
National sample data were analyzed to describe the identification and class consciousness of people with workingand middle-class occupations, race consciousness of blacks and whites, sex consciousness of women, and age consciousness of people sixty years or older. Stratum consciousness, an ideology about the position of the stratum in society, includes a sense of power discontent, evaluation of the legitimacy of its position, and the view that co…
Women's Gender Consciousness
Journal Article Women's Gender Consciousness Get access PATRICIA GURIN PATRICIA GURIN Patricia Gurin is Professor of Psychology and Faculty Associate at the Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan, and a Resident Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, New York. The author acknowledges the helpful criticisms of an earlier draft by Arland Thornton and Mary Corcoran of The University of Michigan, Robert K. Merton of Columbia Unive…
Internal‐External Control in the Motivational Dynamics of Negro Youth
Social Identities -- A Framework for Studying the Adaptations of Immigrants and Ethnics: The Adaptations of Mexicans in the United States
Past treatments of immigration and ethnicity (and of the relationship between them) tend to ignore processes by which the effects of history and social structure occur at the individual level. Many scholars call for social psychological analyses that show how history and macro-social features of the environment produce individual modes of adaptation to immigration, including the construction and reconstruction of ethnicity as one of the modes. We…
The Benefits of Diversity in Education for Democratic Citizenship
The social science statement in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) stressed that desegregation would benefit both African American and White children. Eventually, it was recognized that integration, rather than mere desegregation, was important for benefits to be realized. A parallel argument is made in the legal cases concerning affirmative action in higher education: educational benefits of diversity depend on curricular and co‐curricular exper…
Education and Understanding Structural Causes for Group Inequalities
Group inequalities in the United States are most often attributed to the characteristics of the individuals who belong to these groups; thinking about structural causes of group inequalities is rare. This paper reviews cognitive, cultural, and systemic reasons for this bias. The efficacy of education as a way to increase structural thinking was investigated in two studies of college students' causal thinking about group inequalities. Both studies…
Transformative Pedagogy for Democracy and Social Justice
The authors propose a theoretical model of engaged learning for democracy and justice that draws from multicultural education and critical pedagogy, Freireian dialogic education, and Kolb's active, experiential learning. Engaged learning is defined as applying concepts and ideas from the classroom to out-of-class cognition and action. An empirical investigation (n=203) examines the impact of a course focusing on intergroup relations and social co…
Getting to the What, How , and Why of Diversity on Campus
What kinds of diversity initiatives and cross-racial interactions foster learning among diverse students? In response to that question, the authors trace various social psychological theories that inform campus diversity programs. Making a case for moving beyond traditional intergroup harmony or intragroup solidarity approaches, the authors elaborate on a model that uses group identities as resources for intergroup understanding and collaboration…
Myth and Reality: The Causes and Persistence of Poverty
Mary Corcoran, Greg J. Duncan, Gerald Gurin, Patricia Gurin, Myth and Reality: The Causes and Persistence of Poverty, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Summer, 1985), pp. 516-536
Expectancy Theory in the Study of Poverty
From Separate Corners to Dialogue and Action
Ethnic Identity and Bilingualism Attitudes
Attitudes toward bilingualism among a national sample of persons of Mexican descent are cast in a set of social psychological forces in which structural integration and childhood linguistic environment influence ethnic identity, which in turn influences bilingualism attitudes through its impact on political consciousness. Support is provided by evidence that ethnic identity, specifically a politically-framed conception of self as Chicana/Chicano …
Feminist and sympathetic feminist consciousness
Data from the 1976 American National Election Study were used to assess the effects of one outgroup characteristic, belief similarity—dissimilarity, on the enhancement of women's feminist consciousness. Women were focused on as the ingroup and men as the outgroup. The sample consisted of 677 women who believed that women should have an equal role with men. Outgroup belief similarity referred to women's perception that most men supported an equal …
Traditions in the Social-Psychological Analysis of Race Relations
Feminist Analyses of Public Policy
The Relationships of Intergroup Contact to Social Identity and Political Consciousness
The impact of three forms of intergroup contact (Mexican descent, other minority, and Anglo) on the social identities and political attitudes of a national sample of native-born persons of Mexican descent was examined. Cast within Tajfel's Social Identity theory, the various social contexts were expected to predict three distinct types of ethnic identity: Cultural Ethnicity (Ingroup contact), Politicized Ethnicity (Ingroup and Minority Outgroup c…
Motivation and Aspiration of Southern Negro College Youth
Occupational aspirations are related to motives and expectancies of male students in ten predominantly Negro colleges. Findings indicate that aspirations are positively related to achievement and failure-avoidant motives but more highly related to expectancies (academic self-confidence and sense of personal control). Results differ somewhat according to whether aspirations are measured by occupational prestige, ability demands, or nontraditionali…
Blacks in the Educational Establishment
Race and the Social Sciences
Some Characteristics of Students from Poverty Backgrounds Attending Predominantly Negro Colleges in the Deep South
This study examines the motivations and environmental influences of 3,112 Deep South Negro students who, despite severe obstacles, were attending predominantly Negro colleges in that area. The students range from a severe poverty level to a comfortable income level. Our data indicate that regardless of the intactness of the home, the lower the family income the greater is the influence of nonfamily figures, especially the high school teacher, in …
Social Class Constraints on the Occupational Aspirations of Students Attending Some Predominantly Negro Colleges
Patricia Gurin, Social Class Constraints on the Occupational Aspirations of Students Attending Some Predominantly Negro Colleges, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Autumn, 1966), pp. 336-350
Some Characteristics of Students from Poverty Backgrounds Attending Predominantly Negro Colleges in the Deep South
This study examines the motivations and environmental influences of 3,112 Deep South Negro students who, despite severe obstacles, were attending predominantly Negro colleges in that area. The students range from a severe poverty level to a comfortable income level. Our data indicate that regardless of the intactness of the home, the lower the family income the greater is the influence of nonfamily figures, especially the high school teacher, in …
Internal‐External Control in the Motivational Dynamics of Negro Youth
Expectancy Theory in the Study of Poverty
Motivation and Aspiration of Southern Negro College Youth
Occupational aspirations are related to motives and expectancies of male students in ten predominantly Negro colleges. Findings indicate that aspirations are positively related to achievement and failure-avoidant motives but more highly related to expectancies (academic self-confidence and sense of personal control). Results differ somewhat according to whether aspirations are measured by occupational prestige, ability demands, or nontraditionali…
The Social Research-Social Policy Nexus
Race and the Social Sciences
The Circle of Discrimination
Black Consciousness, Identity and Achievement: A Study of Students in Historically Black Colleges
Black Consciousness, Identity, and Achievement: A Study of Students in Historically Black Colleges
Blacks in the Educational Establishment
Traditions in the Social-Psychological Analysis of Race Relations
Stratum Identification and Consciousness
National sample data were analyzed to describe the identification and class consciousness of people with workingand middle-class occupations, race consciousness of blacks and whites, sex consciousness of women, and age consciousness of people sixty years or older. Stratum consciousness, an ideology about the position of the stratum in society, includes a sense of power discontent, evaluation of the legitimacy of its position, and the view that co…
Re-Examining the Frustrated Homemaker Hypothesis: Role Fit, Personal Dissatisfaction, and Collective Discontent
Multiple Classification Analyses on responses from 946 white women, drawn from the 1972 American National Election Study survey, were used to test the "frustrated homemaker hypothesis" that full-time homemakers are more dissatisfied with their lives than women employed outside the home. The fit between actual and desired roles proved to be a better predictor of personal satisfaction than the traditional dichotomy between homemakers and employed w…
Labor market experiences and expectancies
Feminist and sympathetic feminist consciousness
Data from the 1976 American National Election Study were used to assess the effects of one outgroup characteristic, belief similarity—dissimilarity, on the enhancement of women's feminist consciousness. Women were focused on as the ingroup and men as the outgroup. The sample consisted of 677 women who believed that women should have an equal role with men. Outgroup belief similarity referred to women's perception that most men supported an equal …
Group Consciousness and Political Participation
This article explores the theoretical and methodological problems underlying the relationship between group consciousness and political participation with data from the Center for Political Studies (CPS) 1972 and 1976 National Election Studies. It delineates four conceptual components of group consciousness and examines their relationships with electoral and nonelectoral participation among both subordinate and dominant social groups. An interact…
Myth and Reality: The Causes and Persistence of Poverty
Mary Corcoran, Greg J. Duncan, Gerald Gurin, Patricia Gurin, Myth and Reality: The Causes and Persistence of Poverty, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Summer, 1985), pp. 516-536
Women's Gender Consciousness
Journal Article Women's Gender Consciousness Get access PATRICIA GURIN PATRICIA GURIN Patricia Gurin is Professor of Psychology and Faculty Associate at the Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan, and a Resident Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, New York. The author acknowledges the helpful criticisms of an earlier draft by Arland Thornton and Mary Corcoran of The University of Michigan, Robert K. Merton of Columbia Unive…
Properties of gender identity and their implications for gender consciousness
Three properties of gender identity—perceived similarity to other women, sense of common fate and centrality of gender to the sense of self—were measured in national surveys of women in the United States. Analyses of their relationships to gender consciousness support the general proposition that these properties of identity are implicated in different ways in collective discontent, criticism of the legitimacy of gender disparities and acceptance…
Ethnic Identity and Bilingualism Attitudes
Attitudes toward bilingualism among a national sample of persons of Mexican descent are cast in a set of social psychological forces in which structural integration and childhood linguistic environment influence ethnic identity, which in turn influences bilingualism attitudes through its impact on political consciousness. Support is provided by evidence that ethnic identity, specifically a politically-framed conception of self as Chicana/Chicano …
The Relationships of Intergroup Contact to Social Identity and Political Consciousness
The impact of three forms of intergroup contact (Mexican descent, other minority, and Anglo) on the social identities and political attitudes of a national sample of native-born persons of Mexican descent was examined. Cast within Tajfel's Social Identity theory, the various social contexts were expected to predict three distinct types of ethnic identity: Cultural Ethnicity (Ingroup contact), Politicized Ethnicity (Ingroup and Minority Outgroup c…
Women, politics, and change
Feminist Analyses of Public Policy
Women, Politics, and Change
Psychology (29 works) · Political science (26 works) · Sociology (25 works) · Social Psychology (20 works) · Law (12 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (11 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Consciousness (8 works) · Higher Education Research Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works)