Population size, perceived threat, and exclusion: a multiple-indicators analysis of attitudes toward foreigners in Germany
Population size, perceived threat, and exclusion: a multiple-indicators analysis of attitudes toward foreigners in Germany
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ssresearch.2003.11.003
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发表时间：
2004-12-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Schmidt, P
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作者：
Semyonov, M;Raijman, R;Schmidt, P
本研究的主要目的是检验一个长期存在的理论命题，即对外群体的敌意和歧视态度可能会随着外群体人口的相对规模而上升。使用数据从德国一般社会调查（ALLBUS，1996年），我们提供了，第一次，审查的影响，实际和感知规模的外国人对外国人的歧视态度。具体而言，通过使用多指标分析模型，我们研究的理论命题，即感知威胁构成的外群体人口中介的规模和排斥态度的外群体之间的关系。该分析并不支持理论预期，即当地外国人口的实际规模可能会增加威胁感或排斥态度。感知规模，然而，被发现是相关的，正如预期的那样，与感知的威胁，感知的威胁被发现调解感知规模和支持排斥性做法对外国人的感知规模越高，越明显的威胁和反外国人的态度之间的关系。根据关于少数群体人数与歧视之间关系的社会学理论，对调查结果及其意义进行了讨论。(C)2003年爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
The major objective of the present research is to examine the long-standing theoretical proposition that hostility and discriminatory attitudes toward out-groups are likely to rise with relative size of the out-group population. Using data from The German General Social Survey (ALLBUS, 1996) we provide, for the first time, an examination of the impact of both actual and perceived size of the foreign population on discriminatory attitudes toward foreigners. Specifically, by using a multiple-indicators analytical model, we examine the theoretical proposition that perceived threat posed by an out-group population mediates the relations between size of the out-group and exclusionary attitudes toward the out-group. The analysis does not support the theoretical expectation that actual size of the foreign population in the locale is likely to increase either perception of threat or exclusionary attitudes. Perceived size, however, is found to be associated, as expected, with perceived threat, and perceived threat is found to mediate the relations between perceived size and support for exclusionary practices against foreigners-the higher the perceived size, the more pronounced are both the threat and anti-foreigner attitudes. The findings and their significance are discussed in the light of sociological theories on the relations between minority size and discrimination. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.