TY - BOOK AU - Sniderman,Paul M. AU - Peri,Pierangelo AU - de Figueiredo,Rui J.P. TI - The Outsider: Prejudice and Politics in Italy SN - 9780691223858 AV - DG455 U1 - 305.800945 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Culture conflict KW - Italy KW - Racism KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General KW - bisacsh KW - Alleanza Nazionale (AN) KW - American idealization KW - Asch experiment KW - Berlusconi, Silvio KW - Brown, Roger KW - Buontempo, Teodoro KW - CPI Tolerance Index KW - Campbell, Donald KW - Center Party (Netherlands) KW - Cristiani Sociali coalition KW - Democrazia Proletaria (DP) KW - Economic Insecurity Index KW - Eisenhower, Dwight Davidl KW - F-scale KW - Federalist KW - Forza Italia (FI) KW - Hobsbawm, Eric KW - II Manifesto KW - Jones, James M KW - Katz, Daniel KW - Kelman, H. J KW - Lega Lombarda KW - Lega Nord KW - Marcus, George KW - Mistrust of People Index KW - Partito Liberale (PLI) KW - Partito Radicale KW - Piedmont (Italy) KW - Putnam, Hilary KW - Quillian, Lincoln KW - Rutelli, Fancesco KW - Scheepers, Peer KW - Segni, Mario KW - UD (Unione di Centro) KW - Veneto (Italy) KW - West Virginia miners study KW - Yinger, J. M KW - attribution of responsibility KW - communism collapse KW - ethnic differences KW - ethnocentrism KW - generalizations KW - ingroup identification KW - negative judgments KW - occupational status KW - pluralistic intolerance KW - political awareness KW - prejudiced attitudes KW - realistic conflict theory KW - religious differences KW - summer camp studies, survey questionnaire N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgment --; THE OUTSIDER --; Chapter 1. Introduction --; Chapter 2. The Nature of Prejudice: Race and Nationality as Bases of Conflict --; Chapter 3. A Theory of Prejudice and Group Conflict --; Chapter 4. Prejudice and Politics --; Chapter 5. Conclusion: Intolerance and Democracy --; Appendix I. Sampling and Weighting --; Appendix II. Construction of Measures --; Appendix III. Missing Data --; Appendix IV. Instrumental Variables --; Appendix V. Accounting for Measurement Error: An Alternative Estimation of the "Two Flavors" and "Right Shock" Models --; Appendix VI. The Survey Questionnaire --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - One of the most wide-ranging studies of prejudice undertaken in a decade, The Outsider combines new research methods and rich analysis to upend many of our assumptions about prejudice. Noting that hostility toward immigrants has been on the rise throughout Western Europe, Paul Sniderman and his team conduct the first study of prejudice in Italy and offer insights applicable to nearly all countries worldwide. The study of prejudice, they argue, has been both stimulated and limited by tensions among partial theories. Prejudice and group conflict are said to be rooted in the psychological makeup of individuals, or alternatively, to spring from real competition over material goods or social status, or yet again, to follow in the wake of a quest for identity. It is the distinctive effort of The Outsider to develop a unified theory of prejudice integrating personality, realistic conflict, and social identity approaches. Drawing on computer-assisted interviewing, this book focuses on Italy partly because it has experienced two different waves of immigration, from Northern Africa and Eastern Europe, and thus allows one to consider to what extent the color of immigrants' skin imposes a special burden of prejudice. Italy is also an apt site for the study of intolerance because of long-standing prejudices that have existed internally, between Northern and Southern Italians. The book's findings show that any point of difference--color, nationality, or language--marks the immigrant as an outsider. The fact of difference, not the particular mode of difference, is crucial. Moreover, the general election of 1994 provided a rare opportunity to investigate the political impact of prejudice when the party system was itself in the process of transformation. The authors uncover a potential line of cleavage: rather than prejudice being concentrated on the political right, it has a wide following among the less educated of the political left. Analyzing the contributions of personality, social-structural factors, and political orientation to the wave of intolerance toward immigrants, The Outsider offers unprecedented insights into the phenomenon of prejudice and its link to politics UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691223858?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691223858 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691223858/original ER -