Cross-National Dimensions of Ethnocentrism

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ID2139255
AutoresRoberta E Mapp (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Alberta. The data was collectedf in Ghana and Kenya in 1966 with the financial support of the National Science Foundation and the Institute for International Studies and Overseas Administration of the University of Oregon. An earlier version of this paper was presented to the American Sociological Association, Denver, 1971., autor de correspondencia)
Año1972
Volumen6
Número1
Páginas73-96
Fecha de publicación1972-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCanadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0008-3968 • E-ISSN: 1923-3051
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00083968.1972.10803658
OpenAlexW2265515085
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas9

The effects of ethnocentric attitudes had plagued man's relations to his fellows long before Summer gave an academic explication of the phenomenon in 1906.1 The apparent universality of the attitude has been confirmed by subsequent scholars 2 at the same time that the fluidity and relativity of perception of in-group versus out-group became increasingly apparent.3 In the African context it is more usual to refer to tribalism but given the often acrimonious debate over the use of that term, this discussion will use the more neutral word, ethnocentrism. Its use will serve to remind us that the same questions can be asked of our own particularisms in Europe and North America. While there are many aspects of the general phenomenon of ethnocentrism that could be probed, the data available here permits only an examination of the patterns of ethnocentrism in two African nations, some comparisons of the two national patterns and an investigation of some correlates that reflect differing socialization experiences. The implications of differing intensities of affect-dislike between various component tribal groups in the Ghanaian and Kenyan populations are of considerable social importance, even aside from the political uses to which they can be diverted. An integration problem per se is created for a nation if some

Ethnocentrism · Geography · Political science · African history and culture analysis · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology