Environmental Determinants of Racial Attitudes Redux
The Critical Decisions Related to Operationalizing Context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6180281 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wendy K Tam Cho (0000-0003-3042-8983, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author), Neil Baer (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 414-436 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Politics Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-673X • E-ISSN: 1552-3373 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1532673x10377167 |
| OpenAlex | W2129677574 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 39 |
| References cited | 51 |
Although scholars have long been interested in how context shapes racial attitudes, research in this area has fallen short of a consensus. Instead, the results span a wide range, with some studies finding that racial understanding is promoted by intergroup contact whereas others claim that racial and ethnic outgroups are perceived as a threat to economic and political interests. These varying results arise from research rooted in different conceptualizations of context. Our analysis is unique in the attention we pay to the measure of context for our particular data set. Employing a sociodemographic definition of neighborhood social context, we find that contextual socioeconomic status plays a critical role in mediating the effects of intergroup contact on racial attitudes. These contacts are more likely to produce racial harmony in high-status neighborhoods than in neighborhoods marked by low income and low levels of education
Contact hypothesis · Context effect · Ethnic group · Geography · Ingroups and outgroups · Motivated reasoning · Operationalization · Political science · Politics · Social environment · Social science · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Demography · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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| Unique citing works | 39 |
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| Citations per year | 2,79 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 38 |