Sökning: "anti-immigrant attitudes"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden anti-immigrant attitudes.
1. Anti-immigrant attitudes in context : The role of rhetoric, religion and political representation
Sammanfattning : Background. This thesis directs attention to how attitudes towards immigrants evolve under different contextual circumstances. LÄS MER
2. Prejudice in context over time : how demographic, economic and social conditions influence anti-immigrant attitudes in adolescents and adults
Sammanfattning : Background Thesis explores the contexts that influence anti-immigrant attitudes in both adolescents and adults, and how contexts influence changes anti-immigrant attitudes in societies over time. Whereas previous research into anti-immigrant attitudes has either focused on micro socialization factors in adolescence, or threat inducing factors in adulthood; this thesis forwards an approach that synthesizes these two ideas. LÄS MER
3. It's who you know and what you know : exploring the relationship between education and prejudice in adolescence
Sammanfattning : Background: Previous studies have consistently identified an association between higher levels of education and lower levels of anti-immigrant sentiment, but the underlying reasons for this relationship remain unclear. Therefore, this research aims to help explain why education matters for attitudes toward immigrants. LÄS MER
4. The Socialization of Intergroup Attitudes : The Problem of Generations
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis regards long-term aggregate trends in intergroup attitudes and the individual-level mechanisms that underlie change and continuity on the aggregate-level. The thesis focusses primarily on attitudes toward homosexuality in the North American context and attitudes toward immigration in the European context. LÄS MER
5. Higher education and the evolution of prejudice
Sammanfattning : Background: This dissertation looks at the effect of higher education on prejudice, in particular anti-immigrant sentiment. In studies of prejudice, higher education is constantly shown to correlate to lower levels of prejudice, the so-called “liberalizing effect of education,” yet we do not fully understand to what extent education matters for these attitudes. LÄS MER