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Over the past 4 decades prejudice has been primarily studied as a group or socially shared phenomenon. Important perspectives have been Pettigrew's (1958Pettigrew's ( , 1960) ) sociocultural approach; realistic conflict theory (LeVine & Campbell, 1972); and, more recently, social identity and self-categorization theories (Tajfel & Turner, 1979;Turner, Hogg, Oakes, Reicher, & Wetherell, 1987). However, prejudice can also be viewed as an individual phenomenon in the sense that individuals seem to differ in their propensity to adopt prejudiced and ethnocentric attitudes. The view of prejudice as an individual phenomenon has an important empirical basis: Prejudice tends to be generalized over targets. Persons who are less favorable to one out-group or minority tend to be less favorable to other out-groups or minorities. This has been documented empirically by strong positive coiTetations between attitudes to different out-groups. Such findings have been reported for diverse samples and target groups (

Author

John Duckitt

Publisher

Elsevier

Published

2001

Language

EN