The Empirical Relationship between the Constructs of Traditional and Symbolic Racism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11011733 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan J Lea (University of Cape Town), Susan Lea (University of Cape Town), Frank D Bokhorst (University of Cape Town), Jeremy Colenso (University of Cape Town) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 224-228 |
| Publication date | 1995-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South African Journal of Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0081-2463 • E-ISSN: 2078-208X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/008124639502500404 |
| OpenAlex | W1972533274 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 22 |
The theory of symbolic racism contends that white resistance to social policies such as affirmative action is rooted in prejudiced attitudes towards black people, and represents a more sophisticated form of racism than traditional or rednecked racism. However, the notion of symbolic racism has been severely criticized on theoretical and empirical grounds. The present study sought to clarify the nature of the empirical relationship between symbolic and traditional racism. The Subtle Racism Scale (Duckitt, 1991) and Heaven and Moerdyk's adaptation of Ray's anti-black scale were administered to 150 school-children. The findings revealed no significant difference in mean scores obtained on the measures of symbolic and traditional racism. A series of factor analyses consistently yielded four factors, accounting for 54% of the variance, suggesting that racism involves hitherto unaccounted for components in addition to traditional and subtle expressions of racial prejudice
Prejudice (legal term) · Psychometrics of racism · Racism · Sociology · White (mutation) · Cultural Differences and Values · Gender Studies · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Ray's ethnocentrism scale
Prejudice, Discrimination and Racism
Recent unobtrusive studies of Black and White discrimination and prejudice
Forms of Racism and the Cumulative Dimension of Ethnic Attitudes
The Development and Validation of a Subtle Racism Scale in South Africa
Further Validation of a Subtle Racism Scale in South Africa
Symbolic Racism
Conceptions of Racial Prejudice
Symbolic Racism
Do Authoritarians Hold Authoritarian Attitudes
Self-Interest versus Racial Attitudes as Correlates of Anti-Busing Attitudes in Louisville
Has Racism Declined in America
Resistance to Affirmative Action
Attitudes toward a South African Liberation Movement
Prejudice and politics
The Continuing American Dilemma
Whites' opposition to busing
Tests for comparing elements of a correlation matrix
"Whites' Opposition to "Busing
Self-Interest vs. Symbolic Politics in Policy Attitudes and Presidential Voting
New Black-White Patterns
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.04 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2002 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |