Title
A Cosmopolitan Way of Life for All? A Reassessment of the Impact of Urban and Region on Racial Attitudes From 1972 to 2006
Abbreviated Journal Title
J. Black Stud.
Keywords
urban; region; racial attitudes; TOLERANCE; PREJUDICE; STOUFFER; GENDER; Ethnic Studies; Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to re-evaluate the independent impact of urban and regional residency on racial tolerance from 1972 to 2006. Recent scholarship has questioned the extent to which the effects of these subcultures reflect general toleration and/or more deep-seated underlying racial attitudes. Using data collected by the National Opinion Research Center's General Social Survey, this article builds upon past research by including different measures of racial tolerance borrowed from the contemporary work of Schuman, Steeh, Bobo, and Krysan to reassess the impact of these subcultures over a four-decade period. Findings indicate that Southerners remain more obdurate regardless of how racial tolerance is measured and this effect appears to be persisting across the four-decade period. The impact of urbanism, on the other hand, and its effect across time is much more variable and dependent on how racial tolerance is measured. This article further discusses these findings in the framework of the classical theories of Louis Wirth and Samuel Stouffer.
Journal Title
Journal of Black Studies
Volume
40
Issue/Number
6
Publication Date
1-1-2010
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
1075
Last Page
1093
WOS Identifier
ISSN
0021-9347
Recommended Citation
"A Cosmopolitan Way of Life for All? A Reassessment of the Impact of Urban and Region on Racial Attitudes From 1972 to 2006" (2010). Faculty Bibliography 2010s. 7036.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2010/7036
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