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- Title
Language regions and feelings toward outgroups: Analyses for 1968 and 1984.
- Authors
White, Philip G.; Curtis, James E.
- Abstract
This study examines the effects of language context (Richard Joy's language regions) upon attitudes toward linguistic and other outgroups. using multivariate analyses of national survey data from 1968 and 1984. We test competing hypotheses derived from two different theoretical perspectives The cultural threat thesis leads to the prediction that respondents will express more negative attitudes toward an outgroup when they live in areas where the outgroup is highly represented compared with areas where there is lower outgroup representation. The contact-liking hypothesis holds, conversely, that the greater the proximity of the respondent to the outgroup the more favourable his or her attitude toward it. The results lend more support to the contact hypothesis than to the cultural threat thesis. However, language group differences in outgroup affect remained after controls for context and these may be said to be consistent with the cultural threat thesis.
- Subjects
CANADA; LANGUAGE &; languages; INTERPERSONAL relations; CULTURE; LINGUISTICS; MULTIVARIATE analysis
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1990, Vol 15, Issue 4, p441
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3341130