We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
EDUCATION AND PREJUDICE OR EDUCATION AND RESPONSE-SET?
- Authors
Jackman, Mary R.
- Abstract
This paper re-examines the theory of working class authoritarianism and attempts to assess the evidence for a competing interpretatioan of the empirical relationship. between education and prejudice which posits that the relationship is heavily confounded with an education-related acquiescence response-bias that derives from differing cognitive styles and cue-searching mechanisms. Our analysis of data from a 1964 national survey of the United States relies mainly on use of a modified version of Campbell and Fiske's, Multitrait-Multi-method Matrix (1959) to ascertain how much of the relationship between education, authoritarianism and anti-Semitism is due to a shared method effect of the F and and-Semitism scales. The analysis also utilizes a path model of the theory of education-related response-bias where the effect of education and general knowledge on responses to the F-scale and two different measures of anti-Semitism is completely mediated by two unobserved variables, "method" and "Pure anti-Semitism." The paper concludes that the theory of working class authoritarianism has depended heavily for support on the use of items phrased as positively- worded agree-disagree statements that yield an education-related acquiescence response-bias that has very little to do with the respondent's true attitudes.
- Publication
American Sociological Review, 1973, Vol 38, Issue 3, p327
- ISSN
0003-1224
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.2307/2094356