Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations, Revised Edition - Softcover

Schuman, Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674745698 ISBN 13: 9780674745698

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Howard Schuman is Professor of Sociology and Research Scientist, Emeritus, at the University of Michigan’s Survey Research Center.

Charlotte Steeh is Researcher in Survey Methodology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Maria Krysan is Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

From Library Journal

Statistical studies are often anathema to humanists. Here is one, however, that is both readable and informative. Relying on poll data since 1942 and avoiding jargon, the authors paint a fascinating picture of white (and to a much lesser extent, black) racial attitudes. Their findings show that while white acceptance of the principles of racial justice and even social proximity has risen since 1942, acceptance of federal implementation of racial justice has remained steady or actually declined. Rich in both fact and theory, this work is recommended primarily for scholars in the field. Anthony O. Edmonds, History Dept., Ball State Univ., Muncie, Ind.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0674745698
• ISBN 13: 9780674745698
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 415