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- Title
Group socialization and prejudice: the social transmission of intergroup attitudes and beliefs.
- Authors
Guimond, Serge
- Abstract
In order to examine the social transmission of prejudice in the military, attitudes and beliefs of Francophone (minority) and Anglophone (majority) prospective military officers toward their own and other groups were assessed at the beginning and at the end of a four-year officer-training program. Consistent with social dominance theory and system justification theory, majority group members become significantly more negative toward outgroups (e.g. Francophones, civilians and immigrants) and more likely to internalize beliefs that legitimize the economic gap between Francophones and Anglophones in Canada. Moreover, as predicted on the basis of self-categorization theory, the results show that identification with the category ‘Canadian Forces Officers’ assessed at the midpoint in the program, moderates the change in intergroup attitudes and beliefs. Finally, minority group members did not internalize negative stereotypes of their own group. These results provide important evidence for the role of group socialization in the explanation of intergroup attitudes and beliefs and suggest that social identification is a key factor in group socialization, consistent with self-categorization theory. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
MINORITIES in the military; MILITARY sociology; PREJUDICES; INTERGROUP relations; STEREOTYPES; GROUP identity; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL conditions of minorities
- Publication
European Journal of Social Psychology, 2000, Vol 30, Issue 3, p335
- ISSN
0046-2772
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/(SICI)1099-0992(200005/06)30:3<335::AID-EJSP994>3.0.CO;2-V