Dynamics of prejudice : a psychological and sociological study of veterans / by Bruno Bettelheim and Morris Janowitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bettelheim, Bruno.

Janowitz, Morris, author.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Studies in prejudice

Studies in prejudice.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prejudices.

Race relations.

Minorities.

Prejudice.

Race Relations.

Minority Groups.

Psychology, Military.

United States--Race relations.

Medical Subjects:

Prejudice.

Race Relations.

Minority Groups.

Psychology, Military.

Local Subjects:

United States--Race relations.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xix, 227 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper, [1950] ; [Ann Arbor, Mich.] : [University Microfilms], [1969]

Summary:

In April-June 1946 a survey, ordered by the American Jewish Committee, was conducted among 150 World War II rank-and-file veterans, all of them male, white and non-Jewish, residing in Chicago. The survey aimed to examine the connection between the veterans' wartime experiences, postwar situation, and personality traits, on the one hand, and ethnic prejudices, primarily antisemitism (but also prejudices against Blacks and other minorities), on the other. The data suggest that ethnic intolerance is more a function of subjective perceptions than of the objective situation. Emphasizes principal factors which can explain the intolerance manifested by the veterans, such as subjective deprivation and downward social mobility, as well as somewhat lesser factors such as anxiety and the absense of adequate control of hostile discharge against ethnic minorities. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism).

Contents:

Contains: Dynamic approach to intolerance

Patterns of ethnic intolerance

Stereotyping the minority

Social status

The war experience

Anxiety and intolerance

Tolerance: a function of control

Condoning intolerance: anti-negro attitudes

Reflections, and applications for social action.

Notes:

American Jewish Committee. Social studies series, publication no. 4.

"Facsimile of the original book ..."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Bettelheim, Bruno. Dynamics of prejudice.

OCLC:

10787801