Individual and group level responses to threat experienced by Dutch shopkeepers in East-Amsterdam
Individual and group level responses to threat experienced by Dutch shopkeepers in East-Amsterdam
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个人和团体层面对东阿姆斯特丹荷兰店主所经历的威胁的反应
DOI:
10.1111/j.1559-1816.1998.tb01357.x
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发表时间:
1998
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
A. Bos
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作者:
N. Ellemers;A. Bos
The present study investigates how native shopkeepers in Amsterdam respond to the threat experienced by the emergence of immigrant stores. A survey among 101 native shopkeepers confirmed that psychological, rather than instrumental, considerations play an important role. First, perceptions of fraternal deprivation were relatively independent of the amount of egoistical deprivation people perceived. Instead, the experience of fraternal deprivation was related to people’s identification as native shopkeepers. Second, egoistical deprivation resulted in negative perceptions of all other entrepreneurs, regardless of their ethnic origin. Third, regardless of perceived egoistical deprivation, native shopkeepers were more likely to discredit immigrant entrepreneurs, as they thought they were more fraternally deprived. In the wake of the Rodney King trial, the city of Los Angeles was the scene of violent riots and looting. Although these riots had been elicited by the judicial sanctioning of violent behavior that White policemen had displayed toward a Black suspect, the public outrage resulted in violence of the Black population against another minority group; namely, Koreans and other Asian shopkeepers. This was later explained by arguing that the relatively recent emergence of businesses owned by Korean and other Asian immigrant families was perceived as threatening by the Black people who were already living and working in these areas. Thus, rather than being the direct cause of these riots, perhaps the Rodney King trial merely provided an occasion for Blacks to act out their fear that they might lose their position to people who had immigrated more recently into the United States. This sequence of events raises the question of how social unrest emerges. When addressing this ‘Some of these data were presented in December 1995 at the annual symposium of the Dutch Association of Social Psychological Researchers in Amsterdam. The authors would like to thank