What kinds of people are prejudiced against Negroes and Jews? How did they acquire their prejudices? What will change their attitudes?
These and related questions are explored in the light of recent investigations in a provocative re-examination of an earlier, now classic study by the same authors More than ten years ago, Bruno Bettelheim and Morris Janowitz collaborated in writing Dynamics of Prejudice (reprinted in its en- tirety in this volume). Returning to the same theme, they now test their previous findings against the evidence of a decade of social change-notably the decline of American anti- Semitism and the lesser, but noticeable, de- cline of anti-Negro prejudice. Newer studies support many of their major conclusions reached a decade ago, and compel the revision of others. Thus, they find continuing relevance in the relationship they had previously documented between prejudice and social mobility, and confirm their conclusion that intimate contact

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Personen: Bettelheim, Bruno Janowitz, Morris

Schlagwörter: Vorurteil Sozialer Wandel Gesellschaftlicher Wandel Gerda Lederer