Community Roles in Attitude Formation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4841253 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Theodore M Newcomb (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1942 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 621 |
| Publication date | 1942-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2085688 |
| OpenAlex | W2329510824 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
I T IS THE thesis of this paper that the personality processes involved in attitude formation are closely related to the adaptive devices by which an individual comes to occupy a given in any or groups which take a characteristic attitude toward the issue in question. It follows that observations or measurements of in the provide an essential kind of data to those concerned with the problem of how personality functions as social attitudes are developed. If this sounds like a truism, let me remind you, first, that it is almost totally unsupported by empirical investigation; and secondly, that almost all attitude research has been cast in a framework of individual rather than of and community determinants. The phrase position of the individual in the group is a vague one, but it can be rendered concrete and objective in terms of roles. The concept of role has been much honored in social-psychological discussions, but it has been honored more in the breach than in the observance of quantitative definitions. It is here proposed to relate certain measured attitude changes to objectively determined changing roles in a given group. The selected for study consisted of the entire student body at Bennington College during the four academic years between I935 and 1939. During each of these years there were approximately 250 women students. Many attitude scales were given repeatedly during these years, but the present results are drawn almost exclusively from a single attitude scale, constructed according to Likert's methods, labeled Political and Economic Progressivism-P. E. P. for short. It had to do primarily with issues made prominent by the New Deal, such as organized labor, public relief, and the role of corporate wealth. This particular attitude scale was chosen not because of any chance preferences of the investigator, but because investigation revealed that it corresponded closely to the issues which were most alive in this community
Sociology · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Labour Market and Migration · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1951 - 2015 (65) |
| Highly cited | No |