Racial attitudes in America : trends and interpretations / Howard Schuman ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schuman, Howard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social surveys.

History.

Race relations.

Public opinion.

United States--Race relations--Public opinion--History--20th century.

United States.

Social surveys--United States--History--20th century.

Public opinion--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

xii, 401 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.

Summary:

This new edition brings fully up-to-date a book widely praised for its clear and objective presentation of changes in American racial attitudes during the second half of the twentieth century.

The book retains the division of racial attitudes into principles of equality, government implementation of those principles, and social distance, but adds questions concerning affirmative action and beliefs about sources of inequality. A conceptual section now opens the book, evidence on social desirability has been added, and a new chapter deals with cohort effects and with the impact of income, education, and gender. In key instances, randomized experiments are introduced that test hypotheses more rigorously than is ordinarily possible with survey data. Throughout, the authors have reconsidered earlier ideas and introduced new thinking.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [373]-389) and indexes.

ISBN:

067474568X

0674745698

OCLC:

37239019