Cohorts,education, and the evolution of tolerance |
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Authors: | AWade Smith |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Sociology, Arizona State University, USA;2. National Opinion Research Center, USA |
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Abstract: | Normative and social structural explanations for changes in tolerance are tested using racial attitude items from 11 surveys between 1958 and 1978. Over the 20 years, while there were changes in the overall levels of racial tolerance, there were also changes in the upper and lower ends of a tolerance spectrum which differentially depended on cohort and educational effects. Regardless of the position in the tolerance spectrum, most of the change in racial attitudes resulted from across-the-board changes in all cohort and educational groups. The most racially conservative end of the spectrum was slightly eroded by increased educational attainment in the population, while the most racially liberal position was somewhat advanced by cohort replacement. In the final analysis, the normative perspective demonstrated the greater potential for applications to other, more complex, configurations of tolerance. |
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Keywords: | Direct all correspondence and requests for reprints to A Wade Smith Department of Sociology Arizona State University Tempe AZ 85287 |
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