ALLBUS-Bibliographie 25. Fassung, Stand - SSOAR

774 ALLBUS-Bibliographie (25. Fassung)
standing theoretical proposition that hostility and discriminatory attitudes toward
outgroups are likely to rise with relative size of the out-group population. Using data
from The German General Social Survey (1996) we provide, for the first time, an
examination of the impact of both actual and perceived size of the foreign population
on discriminatory attitudes toward foreigners. Specifically, by using a multipleindicators
analytical model, we examine the theoretical proposition that perceived
threat posed by an outgroup population mediates the relations between size of the
out-group and exclusionary attitudes toward the outgroup. The analysis does not
support the theoretical expectation that actual size of the foreign population in the
locale is likely to increase either perception of threat or exclusionary attitudes. Perceived
size, however, is found to be associated, as expected, with perceived threat,
and perceived threat is found to mediate the relations between perceived size and
support for exclusionary practices against foreigners - the higher the perceived size,
the more pronounced are both the threat and anti-foreigner attitudes. The findings
and their significance are discussed in the light of the sociological theories on the
relations between minority size and discrimination." Datengrundlage ist der
ALLBUS 1996.
Aufgenommen: 19. Fassung, November 2003
Semyonov, Moshe, Raijmann, Rebeca, Tov, Anat Yom und Schmidt, Peter, (2004).
Population size, perceived threat, and exclusion: a multiple-indicators analysis of
attitudes toward foreigners in Germany. Social Science Research, 33: 681-701.
Abstract: "The major objective of the present research is to examine the longstanding
theoretical proposition that hostility and discriminatory attitudes toward outgroups
are likely to rise with relative size of the out-group population. Using data
from The German General Social Survey (ALLBUS, 1996) we provide, for the first
time, an examination of the impact of both actual and perceived size of the foreign
population on discriminatory attitudes toward foreigners. Specifically, by using a
multiple-indicators analytical model, we examine the theoretical proposition that
perceived threat posed by an out-group population mediates the relations between
size of the out-group and exclusionary attitudes toward the out-group. The analysis
does not support the theoretical expectation that actual size of the foreign population
in the locale is likely to increase either perception of threat or exclusionary attitudes.
Perceived size, however, is found to be associated, as expected, with perceived
threat, and perceived threat is found to mediate the relations between perceived size
and support for exclusionary practices against foreigners - the higher the perceived
size, the more pronounced are both the threat and anti-foreigner attitudes. The findings
and their significance are discussed in the light of sociological theories on the
relations between minority size and discrimination."
Aufgenommen: 21. Fassung, Dezember 2006