PREJUDICE, ORTHODOXY AND THE SOCIAL SITUATION Academic Article

abstract

• Studies of racial prejudice have sometimes neglected the social situation. Racial prejudice is here examined against a background 01 religious fundamentalism and social change. Intense fundamentalist commitment is found to be positively correlated with racial prejudice, although subscription to religious racism is surprisingly rare. Moreover, a majority of these fundamentalist respondents are realists with regard to eventual integration. Gradual desegregation of businesses and schools has altered the Dallas social situation. Once strongly committed to segregation norms, these Dallasites are gradually beginning to rationalize their peaceful compliance with desegregation and are receptive to paternalistic explanations of the process. The strength of attitude responses gives some support to an explanation of attitude change in terms of dissonance theory. 1965, Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.

authors

• Feagin, Joe

published proceedings

• SOCIAL FORCES

author list (cited authors)

• FEAGIN, J. R.

citation count

• 7

complete list of authors

• FEAGIN, JR

publication date

• September 1965

publisher

• Oxford University Press (OUP)  Publisher

published in

• SOCIAL FORCES  Journal

keywords

• 44 Human Society
• 4410 Sociology

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.2307/2574821

start page

• 46

end page

• 56

volume

• 44

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2574821