Pliable Prejudice
The Case of Welfare
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6231925 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Goren (0009-0009-7256-7579, University of Minnesota, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 961-976 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ajps.12652 |
| OpenAlex | W3195721602 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 48 |
The conventional wisdom maintains that whites’ racial predispositions are exogenous to their views of welfare. Against this position, scattered studies report that prejudice moves in response to new information about policies and groups. Likewise, theories of mediated intergroup contact propose that when individuals encounter messages about racial outgroups, their levels of prejudice may wax or wane. In conjunction, these lines of work suggest that whites update their global views of blacks based on how they feel about people on welfare. The current article tests this “prejudice revision” hypothesis with data from “welfare mother” vignettes embedded on national surveys administered in 1991, 2014, and 2015 and ANES panel data from the 1990s. The results indicate that views of welfare recipients systematically affect racial stereotypes, racial resentment, individualistic explanations for racial inequality, and structural explanations for racial inequality. Prejudice, in short, is endogenous to welfare attitudes
Inequality · Ingroups and outgroups · Political science · Prejudice (legal term · Racism · Resentment · Sociology · Welfare · Cultural Differences and Values · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Urban Inequality
Why Americans Hate Welfare
Dangerous Frames
Bad Is Stronger Than Good for Stigmatized, but Not Admired Outgroups
A Social Cognitive Theory Approach to the Effects of Mediated Intergroup Contact on Intergroup Attitudes
Improving Intergroup Attitudes through Televised Vicarious Intergroup Contact
Universals in the Content and Structure of Values
Network News and Racial Beliefs
Justice in America
The Politics of Belonging
The Contact Caveat
Us Against Them
The Scar of Race
The Race Card
Poor People, Black Faces
The media whiteness of Social Security and Medicare
Mediated Intergroup Contact
The Parasocial Contact Hypothesis
When Race Matters and When It Doesn't
Beyond Black and White
The Politics of Disgust
Racial Attitudes and Opposition to Welfare
Race and Poverty in America
The Political Consequences of Latino Prejudice against Blacks
Effects of the 2008 Obama Presidential Campaign on White Racial Prejudice
The End of Welfare as We Know It
Poverty as We Know It
Elite Discourse and American Public Opinion
The Cambridge School and Leo Strauss
On Assessing the Political Effects of Racial Prejudice
Party Identification, Issue Attitudes, and the Dynamics of Political Debate
Racial Stereotypes and Whites' Political Views of Blacks in the Context of Welfare and Crime
Changing Sides or Changing Minds? Party Identification and Policy Preferences in the American Electorate
The Spillover of Racialization into Health Care
Priming Predispositions and Changing Policy Positions
Racial Attitudes Through a Partisan Lens
Anti-Black prejudice as a function of exposure to the negative behavior of a single Black person
A meta-analytic test of intergroup contact theory
White Residents, Black Incumbents, and a Declining Racial Divide
Can One TV Show Make a Difference?aWill & Graceand the Parasocial Contact Hypothesis
"Race Coding" and White Opposition to Welfare
Racism Revised
Envisioning Dependency
Race and Race Theory
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |