Gauging American Attitudes Toward Minorities, 1920s-1960s

衡量 20 年代至 1960 年代美国对少数族裔的态度

• 批准号: 1155146
• 负责人: Howard Schuman
• 金额: $ 8万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-04-01 至 2014-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1155146&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Gauging; American; Attitudes; Toward; Minorities

SES-1155146Howard SchumanUniversity of MichiganAbstractGauging American Attitudes Toward Minorities, 1920s-1960sSurvey data provide systematic evidence on changing attitudes of white Americans toward black Americans over the past 70 years, as the rights of African Americans -- and later of other minorities -- expanded as part of the "rights revolution." Little is known about the evolution of white racial attitudes prior to the mid-1940s, however, when surveys began to gather trend data. Our first research goal is to investigate trends in racial attitudes through a content analysis of a sample of articles in key newspapers and national magazines from the period 1929-1946. Our second research goal is partly methodological, and centers on an investigation of the years 1946-1965, a period in which survey data on racial attitudes became increasingly available. Using the same approach, we will carry out a content analysis for these years as well, allowing us to compare the content analysis from both eras with racial attitude trends identified by means of repeated surveys. Broader ImpactsFindings from this research seek to improve our understanding of public attitudes toward minorities during the period of the Great Depression and World War II years. The substantive findings may be of interest to the general public and scholars. The study also seeks to make an epistemological contribution: In this case, our understanding of how racial attitudes have changed has been limited by the fact that trend data have only been available since the post-WW2 era. Findings from this content analysis of mass media sources pre- and post-WW2 will help us assess the degree to our historical understanding of race relations reflects the methodologies used to gauge racial attitudes, and the advantages and limitations of each.

调查数据提供了系统的证据，表明在过去的70年里，随着非裔美国人的权利--以及后来其他少数民族的权利--作为“权利革命”的一部分得到了扩大，白色美国人对黑人的态度发生了变化。“然而，在20世纪40年代中期之前，人们对白色种族态度的演变知之甚少，当时调查开始收集趋势数据。我们的第一个研究目标是通过对1929年至1946年期间主要报纸和全国性杂志上的文章样本进行内容分析，调查种族态度的趋势。我们的第二个研究目标部分是方法论的，并集中在1946年至1965年的调查，在这段时间里，调查数据的种族态度变得越来越可用。使用相同的方法，我们也将对这些年的内容进行分析，使我们能够将两个时代的内容分析与通过重复调查确定的种族态度趋势进行比较。这项研究的结果旨在提高我们对大萧条和第二次世界大战期间公众对少数民族态度的理解。公众和学者可能会对实质性调查结果感兴趣。 这项研究还试图做出认识论的贡献：在这种情况下，我们对种族态度如何变化的理解受到了这样一个事实的限制，即自二战后时代以来才有趋势数据。 调查结果从大众媒体来源的内容分析之前和之后的WW 2将帮助我们评估我们的种族关系的历史理解的程度反映了用于衡量种族态度的方法，以及各自的优势和局限性。