PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Likert Scale, The Strongest, Egalitarianism
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1) chapter 5 old-fashioned versus modern prejudice: where have all the bigots gone, a new perspective of prejudiced people as morally inferior human being emerged, and. The strongest criticism is that modern racism is not conceptually distinct from old-fashioned racism: symbolic racism, symbolic racism anti-african american prejudice originating out of the belief that african. On one hand, they are taught about stereotypes about blacks from society, friends, and parents. On the other hand, society also teaches them egalitarian and non-discrimination values. Thus, researchers get a general, if somewhat imprecise, measure of the respondent"s attitudes (b) people do not always provide their true attitudes on self-report measures. The sensitive nature of an issue may prevent people from being conscious or aware of their true, underlying attitudes toward it. Blacks, jones and sigall suspected that attitudes had not changed dramatically, but people"s willingness to express overt negative racial attitudes was likely diminishing.
