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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED181579 AUTHOR:
TITLE: A Study of Attitudes Toward Racial and Religious
Minorities and Toward Women. Study No. S2829-B.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1978
NOTE: 221 p.; Not available in paper copy due to marginal
legibility of parts of original document
ABSTRACT: Much of this study is devoted to finding out the
views, prejudices, and perceptions of the white majority
about the black minority in the United States. The survey
was taken among a nationwide sample between October 6, and
November 8, 1978. It included 1,673 whites and an
oversample of 281 Jewish people, with subsamples of 86
Spanish Americans, 450 Catholics, and 843 white
Protestants. In addition, a separate nationwide
cross-section of 783 blacks was surveyed. The study also
deals with issues generated by attempts to impose racial
and religious quotas in education and economic life, the
"Bakke" decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and the future
of affirmative action. White and black views toward
Spanish-Americans are measured and analyzed along with an
assessment of their own status from Hispanics themselves.
Previous data on anti-Semitism trends are updated.
Comparable data were also collected on attitudes toward
Catholics. Finally, previous data on attitudes toward women
are updated and extended. A copy of the questionnaire is
included. (Author/JM)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Administrator-Attitudes; Affirmative
Action; Black-Attitudes; Black-Leadership; Catholics-;
Minority-Groups; Questionnaires-; Racial-Attitudes; Racial
Relations; Religious-Discrimination; Sex-Discrimination;
Sex Fairness; Social-Bias; Surveys-; Whites-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Anti-Semitism; *Blacks-; *Females-;
*Majority-Attitudes; *Racial-Discrimination; *Spanish
Americans
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