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- Title
SCALOGRAM ANALYSIS OF CATHOLIC ATTITUDES TOWARD THE NEGRO.
- Authors
Harte, Thomas J.
- Abstract
This article presents a scalogram analysis of Catholic attitudes toward the Afro-Americans. The committee on Catholic Opinion Study in the Department of Sociology at the Catholic University of America attempted an extensive survey of Catholic opinion on selected issues in 1949. This poll, the second opinion study made by the committee, was administered to Catholics in most major areas of the U.S. with the assistance of forty-two volunteer cooperators. A total of 3862 usable returns were obtained on the racial attitude items in Survey II, of which 1677 came from student and 2185 from non-student groups. The discussion of the scale analysis of racial attitude items in Survey II is based upon returns from non-student groups exclusively. As regards the rank ordering of racial attitudes, it was found that the vast majority of respondents approved what may be called religious equality for Afro-Americans, and a somewhat smaller majority approved of economic equality. On the two final items, which approached the area of social equality, a minority of respondents reflected a favorable attitude. These findings seem to be in substantial agreement with the findings of other studies on racial attitudes.
- Subjects
UNITED States; GUTTMAN scale; CATHOLICS; AFRICAN Americans; SOCIAL surveys; ATTITUDE (Psychology); RACE relations; SCALING (Social sciences)
- Publication
American Catholic Sociological Review, 1951, Vol 12, Issue 2, p66
- ISSN
0362-515X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3707794