Residential Proximity and Intergroup Relations in Public Housing Projects

Wilner, Daniel M.; Walkley, Rosabelle Price; Cook, Stuart W.

doi:10.1111/j.1540-4560.1952.tb01593.x

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“…3 Strictly speaking, the workplace, church, and neighborhood contact indicators reliably reflect only proximity to Blacks and not necessarily actual interaction with Blacks. But Allport (1954, p. 273) argued that proximity encourages knowledge and acquaintanceship and reduces fallacious stereotypes, and this expectation has been confirmed by research demonstrating a strong link between proximity and interaction (Jackman and Crane 1986;Deutsch and Collins 1951 ;Wilner et al 1952;Robinson 1980;Hallinan 1982;Hallinan and Smith 1985). The church and home contacts are dichotomous variables in the NORC data, scored yes = 1 and no = 0 in the present analysis.…”

Section: Testing Contact's Effectssupporting

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Prejudice reduction or self‐selection? A test of the contact hypothesis

Wilson

1996

Sociological Spectrum

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Section: Testing Contact's Effectssupporting

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Prejudice reduction or self‐selection? A test of the contact hypothesis

Wilson

1996

Sociological Spectrum

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“…Studying racially integrated housing projects in the USA, Wilner, Walkley, and Cook (1952) found that the expectation that other Whites would approve of intimate contact with Blacks was related both to the attitudes towards Blacks and to the amount and quality of intergroup contact that people experienced. Women who perceived the social climate to favour interracial association and engaged in friendly interaction with Blacks were the most likely to have positive attitudes towards Blacks.…”

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What will the others think? In‐group norms as a mediator of the effects of intergroup contact

Tezanos‐Pinto

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Brown

2010

British J Social Psychol

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The influence of social norms in the context of intergroup relations has long been recognized by social psychologists, yet research on intergroup contact and social norms have usually remained disconnected. We explored the influence of direct and indirect friendship on attitudes towards ethnic minorities in Norway, and in particular the role of in-group norms about the social approval of intergroup contact as a mechanism that distinguishes direct from indirect contact. Using a sample of school students from 89 classrooms (N=823), we tested this hypothesis with both one level and multi-level structural equation modelling (ML-SEM), where the amount of contact of other classroom members was considered as a form of indirect contact. The results suggest that the intergroup contact of other in-group members (in-group friends or classmates) affects attitudes towards the out-group by changing the perception of in-group norms and by reducing intergroup anxiety. In contrast, direct contact (or contact at the individual level in the case of ML-SEM), improved attitudes only by reducing intergroup anxiety, and did not affect the perception of in-group norms.

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“…Hamilton, Carpenter & Bishop, 1984), proximity effects (e.g. Wilner et al, 1952) and immigrandhost encounters (e.g. Wagner & Machleit, 1986).…”

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Intergroup contact and desegregation in the new South Africa

Dixon

Reicher

1997

British J Social Psychol

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This paper highlights some limitations of research on the contact hypothesis. In the first section, we criticize the practice of describing social intercourse between groups in terms of predefined categories, which tend to void the process of its situated meanings, often reducing it to a quantitative index. Intergroup contact, we argue, acquires meaning within everyday practice and argumentation as individuals try to make sense of others' co‐presence. By disregarding this, researchers have overlooked how lay accounts of contact, and of the nature of the social groups in contact, may accomplish racism. In the second section, illustrating this argument, we examine a recent case of desegregation in South Africa. This concerns the relocation of a ‘black’ squatter community into an area that was designated ‘white’ during the apartheid era. Through discourse analysis of interview data, we identify several constructions of interaction between ‘squatters’ and ‘property owners’. We focus on a set of accounts in which contact was portrayed as a form of territorial invasion, exploring their local rhetorical and broader ideological functions.

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Residential Proximity and Intergroup Relations in Public Housing Projects

Cited by 84 publications

References 1 publication

Prejudice reduction or self‐selection? A test of the contact hypothesis

Prejudice reduction or self‐selection? A test of the contact hypothesis

What will the others think? In‐group norms as a mediator of the effects of intergroup contact

Intergroup contact and desegregation in the new South Africa

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