Convergence, Polarization, or What
Racially Based Changes in Attitudes and Outlooks, 1964-1984
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2276512 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cedric Herring (0000-0002-1873-426X, Texas A&M University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 267-281 |
| Publication date | 1989-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1989.tb01522.x |
| OpenAlex | W2159814103 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 20 |
Wilson (1978, 1987) argues that since the 1960s, race has become a less important determinant of the life chances and outlooks of individual blacks than has sociocconomic status; moreover, he suggests that as race has declined in its significance, the black community has become more socioeconomically differentiated and polarized. Using data from the 1964 through 1984 American National Election Surveys, this article examines hypotheses derived from both Wilson's “declining significance of race” thesis and his “polarization” thesis. The results show that (1) race declined in its significance to a limited degree, but continued to be an important determinant of attitudes and outlooks; (2) blacks at all income levels continued to be more similar to other blacks with different incomes than to nonblacks with incomes similar to their own; (3) the black community did not undergo social, political, and economic polarization; and (4) socioeconomic standing did not become more important than race as a determinant of the social, political, and economic attitudes and outlooks examined
Demographic economics · Economics · Inequality · Polarization (electrochemistry) · Political science · Politics · Population · Race (biology) · Social class · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Demography · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Studies · Law · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Attitudinal Polarization and Trimodal Distributions
Race, Wealth, and Class Identification in 21st-Century American Society
Race and Words
Race-Specific Predictors of Trust in the Federal Government
Race, work, and welfare
The political freedom of African-Americans
The Culture of Poverty and African-American Culture
Class Differences in Racial Attitudes
Differences in Earnings among Black and White African Immigrants in the United States, 1980-2000
Socioeconomic Status and Racial Group Interests Among Black Americans
Intragroup Heterogeneity and Blackness
Log-Linear Models
The New Black Middle Class
Blacks and Whites
The Truly Disadvantaged
The Changing--Not Declining--Significance of Race
Racial Attitudes in America
Prejudice and politics
Whites' opposition to busing
Racial Tolerance as a Function of Group Position
Labor Market Structure, Intragenerational Mobility, and Discrimination
Occupational Mobility of Black Men
The Continuing Significance of Race
The danger of negative thinking
The inclining significance of race
The declining significance of race
Caste and Class Controversy
New Black-White Patterns
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2015 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |