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Updating The Bogardus Social Distance Studies: A New National Survey, Christopher Donoghue, Vincent N. Parrillo
Updating The Bogardus Social Distance Studies: A New National Survey, Christopher Donoghue, Vincent N. Parrillo
Department of Sociology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
The last quarter of the 20th century witnessed a number of events and social transformations that have had great implications for religious and ethnic relations around the world. This study seeks to gauge the changes in sentiment towards various U.S. ethnic and religious groups by updating and replicating the Bogardus social distance scale. The Bogardus study, which was designed to measure the level of acceptance that Americans feel towards members of the most common ethnic groups in the United States, was conducted five times between 1920 and 1977 with very few changes in research design. Consistent with prior replications, the …