Racial Attitudes of Children: Perspectives on the Structural-Normative Theory of Prejudice.

Morland, J. Kenneth; Suthers, Ellen

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Publication Date: 1980-Sep

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Racial Attitudes of Children: Perspectives on the Structural-Normative Theory of Prejudice.

Morland, J. Kenneth; Suthers, Ellen

Phylon, v41 n3 p267-75 Sep 1980

Reports on a 1972 study of nursery school children's racial attitudes compared with those of older children. Children were tested with a semantic differential questionnaire and a social distance scale and were compared across age and race. Concludes that the norm for racial attitudes is a bias for one's own race. (MK)

Descriptors: Attitude Change, Children, Norms, Racial Attitudes, Racial Bias, Semantic Differential, Social Attitudes, Social Development

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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