Measures of Racial Prejudice: Modern Racism Scale

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerri Lynn Kim
Keyword(s):  
Racial Prejudice ◽  
Modern Racism ◽  
Modern Racism Scale

scholarly journals Incidência de preconceito racial em professores: um preditor de fracasso escolar de estudantes?

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fauston Negreiros ◽  
Rebeca De Alcântara e Silva Meijer ◽  
Ludgleydson Fernandes De Araújo
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
School Failure ◽  
Racial Prejudice ◽  
Public School Teachers ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Modern Racism ◽  
Racial Democracy ◽  
Modern Racism Scale ◽  
The City

Este trabalho resulta da investigação da incidência do preconceito racial em professores da rede pública, considerando sua relação com a produção de ações que levem ao fracasso escolar dos discentes. A metodologia foi quantitativa, exploratório-descritiva. Participaram 201 professores de ambos os sexos, entre 25 e 59 anos, do Ensino Fundamental público de Floriano/PI, correspondendo a 44,46% da amostra significativa da localidade. Os dados foram coletados com a Escala de Racismo Moderno e analisados estatisticamente pelo programa GraphPadPrism para estimar aspectos da categorização e variáveis envolvidas acerca do preconceito racial. Constatou-se que a discriminação é expressa de forma silenciada, por meio do falso mito da democracia racial: embora os entrevistados tenham-se declarado isentos de preconceitos, os conteúdos de suas concepções mostram o contrário.Palavras-chave: Preconceito racial. Professores. Desempenho Escolar. Fracasso.The incidence of racial prejudice on teachers: a predictor of school failure of students?AbstractThis work results from an investigation on the incidence of racial prejudice on public school teachers, considering their relationship with the production of actions that lead to the school failure of the students. The method was quantitive, exploratory and descriptive. The study consisted on 201 teachers of both genders, between 25 and 59 years old, which belong to a public elementary school of the city of Floriano/PI, corresponding to 44.46% of the representative sample of the locality. Data were collected with the modern racism scale, and statistically analyzed by GraphPadPrism program to estimate aspects of categorization, and variables involved in racial prejudice. It was found that the discrimination was expressed in a muted way through the false myth of racial democracy: although the teachers had declared themselves free of prejudices, the contents of their conceptions show otherwise.Keywords: Racial prejudice. Teachers. Scholarship performance. Failure.

scholarly journals Preliminary studies on affirmative action in a brazilian university

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo de São Paulo
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
Action Program ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Modern Racism ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Perceptions Of Students ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Modern Racism Scale ◽  
Variance Explained

As a signatory to Durban III World Conference against Racism, Discrimination, Xenophobia and other forms of Intolerance, Brazil has committed itself to the enforcement of mechanisms to promote social equity. As a consequence, governmental programs have been implemented, aiming at the inclusion of Afro-descendents in higher education. Actually, the quantity of such students in the academy is minimal and does not relate to what can be observed in the general population. As an example of such endeavor, Universidade de Brasília (UnB) has started an Affirmative Action program in order to include a contingent of 20% of its freshman students as representatives of racial underprivileged groups. This policy started in August 2004. The present study aimed to investigate the perceptions of students and general public to this policy. An instrument, based partially on McConahay's (1986) Modern Racism scale, was administered to a sample of 316 students. A factor analysis (AF) extracted five factors, corresponding to 48% of the total variance explained. An Analysis of Variance (Anova) was performed to better understand the results, concerning both age and gender of the subjects. Results show that, although students demonstrated interest in the implementing of Affirmative Action programs, and are aware of the relevance of such procedures to the cultural and social structure of the community, they do not agree with their reasons or measures taken, or to the existence of the problem itself.

Correlation of Need for Cognition and Modern Racism

1993 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 542-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Waller
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Need For Cognition ◽  
Racial Prejudice ◽  
Modern Racism ◽  
Survey Results

Survey results from 59 college students indicated that those low in need for cognition evidenced higher racial prejudice than respondents high in need for cognition.

scholarly journals Two Sides of the Same Coin: The Relationship Between Modern Racism and Rape Blaming Attitudes among Swedish Students and Community Members

2020 ◽  
pp. 003329412097815
Author(s):  
Mattias Sjöberg ◽  
Farhan Sarwar
Keyword(s):  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Rape Victim ◽  
Victim Blame ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Modern Racism ◽  
Significant Negative Relationship ◽  
Modern Racism Scale ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Perpetrator Blame

The objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between modern racism and rape victim and perpetrator blame, and rape perception. Participants from both a community population ( n = 211) and a student population ( n = 200) read a rape vignette and provided their judgements of blame towards a victim and perpetrator, their perception of the event as rape, and later answered the modern racism scale. Results showed a significant positive relationship between modern racism and rape victim blame ( r = .35, R2 [Formula: see text] 100 = 12.1%), while modern racism had a significant negative relationship with perpetrator blame ( r = −.27, R2 [Formula: see text] 100 = 7.5%) and rape perception ( r = −.29, R2 [Formula: see text] 100 = 8.7%). Implications for the criminal justice system as well as suggestions for future research were discussed.

scholarly journals The effect of status framing on student interest and recall regarding minority figures

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crystal Nicole Steltenpohl
Keyword(s):  
Future Research ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Ethnocultural Empathy ◽  
Modern Racism ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Four Frames ◽  
Modern Racism Scale ◽  
Levels Of Support ◽  
Larger Sample ◽  
School Curricula

This study examined the effects of framing on participant interest and retention ofdiversity-related material. In this study, 204 students from undergraduate psychology coursesacross two universities read a vignette about Kenneth and Mamie Clark. The vignette waspresented in the context of one of four frames that either highlighted or did not highlight theirminority status and/or their status as leaders in their field. After reading the vignette, studentsresponded to 13 items measuring recall of the material figures and 11 items assessing theirinterest in these figures. Participants also responded to the Scale of Ethnocultural Empathy(SEE), Modern Racism Scale (MRS), and Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (CoBRAS). Thedata found in the present study provided varying levels of support for the hypotheses. The effectswere stronger for Illinois participants, which may be due to the larger sample size collectedand/or the greater diversity of the school population. These results bring to light an interestingpotential area of future research that could eventually impact school curricula. It is possible that abetter understanding of effective methods for engaging students in discussions of diversity maybe around the corner. Participant race, gender, location, and major all had varying degrees of aneffect on the results, indicating that, like many other topics in psychology, understanding howpeople react to diversity discussions is not simply black and white.

The Development and Validation of a Subtle Racism Scale in South Africa

1991 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 233-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Duckitt
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
University Students ◽  
South African ◽  
Racial Prejudice ◽  
African Population ◽  
South African Population ◽  
Modern Racism ◽  
Subtle Racism ◽  
Validity Criteria ◽  
Development And Validation

Research on the concept of symbolic or modern racism has shown that transparent and obvious measures of traditional racism no longer adequately reflect racial prejudice in many American sub-populations. There are indications that this may also be the case for certain segments of the white South African population, particularly in the case of university students who have been the typical subjects of research on prejudice. Traditional measures of prejudice may also be viewed as offensive by subjects and elicit antagonistic reactions. The present study therefore set out to develop and validate a new, more indirect, and subtle measure of anti-black racial prejudice designed to overcome these problems. The results ( N = 217) indicated that the Subtle Racism scale was unidimensional, highly reliable, and showed powerful associations with a number of validity criteria. It clearly outperformed a more traditional measure of racism in all respects.

Attitudes toward Immigrants, Beliefs about Causes of Poverty and Effects of Perspective-Taking

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Buraschi ◽  
Antonio Bustillos ◽  
Carmen Huici
Keyword(s):  
Perspective Taking ◽  
Central Element ◽  
African Immigrants ◽  
Attitudes Toward Immigrants ◽  
Modern Racism ◽  
Slope Test ◽  
Simple Slope ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Modern Racism Scale ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe present work presents three studies that investigate the relationship between causal attributions of poverty in Africa, attitudes towards African immigrants and perspective-taking. The objective of preliminary study (N = 54) was to collect information to adapt the Perceived Causes of Third World Poverty Scale (Hine & Montiel, 1999), in the Spanish adaptation by Betancor et al. (2002) to Spanish adolescents. The Study 1 (N = 102) explores the factorial structure of the teenager questionnaire adaptation and to test the relationship with Modern Racism Scale (McConahay, 1986). Correlational analysis reflects the existence of a central element in the new forms of racism: Victim blaming through Personal Attributions of Poverty. The objective of Study 2 (N = 62) was to determine whether empathic induction through empathic perspective-taking (Batson et al., 1997) can ameliorate the individual’s attributions of poverty concerning African immigrants among majority group members. However, the opposite effect was found, empathy induction increased Personal Attributions of poverty (η2 = .10). This effect was moderated by Modern Racism, simple slope test indicates t(52) = 2.49, p < .01, higher prejudiced participants increased Personal Attribution of poverty after empathic induction, blaming the victims for their situation.

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