Values, Authoritarianism, and Antagonism toward Ethnic Minorities: A Swiss Replication

Jeffries, Vincent; Schweitzer, David R.; Morris, Richard T.

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“…In contrast, utilitarian collectivism values group or community interests over selfinterest as demonstrated, for instance, by a willingness to share material resources with others outside of one's immediate family. Those components of collectivism have been defined by Jeffries et al (1973) as cooperation-working together with others to achieve common goals-and collective responsibility-feeling responsible and providing assistance to others who are disadvantaged and in need.…”

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“…In general, individualistic persons are defined as emotionally independent or "detached from community," and they tend to be self-contained, autonomous, and self-reliant (Bochner and Hesketh 1994;Jeffries, Schweitzer, and Morris 1973;Triandis et al 1995). They are likely to value self-direction, power, and personal achievement (Ryckman and Houston 2003).…”

Section: Characterizing Individualism and Collectivismmentioning

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Individualism and Collectivism in America: The Case of Gun Ownership and Attitudes toward Gun Control

Celinska

2007

Sociological Perspectives

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A number of sociologists and cultural psychologists claim that the United States is a predominantly individualistic country. This article uses a unidimensional index of individualism and collectivism to analyze one of the most debated sociopolitical issues in America: gun ownership and gun control. It tests the hypothesis that the widespread gun ownership in the United States and prevailing attitudes toward gun control represent competing individualistic and collectivistic cultural traditions, respectively. The findings indicate that the index is one of the predictors of gun ownership and of attitudes about gun permits.

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Section: Definition Of Utilitarian Individualism and Collectivismmentioning

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Section: Characterizing Individualism and Collectivismmentioning

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Individualism and Collectivism in America: The Case of Gun Ownership and Attitudes toward Gun Control

Celinska

2007

Sociological Perspectives

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“…However, it is likely that a substantial number of conservatives of a more extremist political bent are drawn t o the ideology and politics of the National Action and Republican movements. Inglehart and Sidjanski (1 974), for example, point t o the strong traditionalist appeal of these movements which extends to a similar ideological pattern of nationalist, ethnocentric, authoritarian, populist, and reactionary sentiments in the larger Swiss general electorate (compare findings reported in Jeffries et al, 1973). We will expand on these parallels in the concluding sections of this paper.…”

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Status Politics and Conservative Ideology: A French‐swiss Case in National and Comparative Perspective*

Schweitzer

1977

European J Political Res

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The accent on status‐anxiety factors which shape ideologies and political directions has emerged as a popular, but relatively speculative and untested, theme in contemporary political analysis. This article traces the evolution of the “status politics” theme, from its essayist interpretations of American right‐wing radicalism to comparative applications in other Western industrialized societies. The task is to make more organized sense of this theme and to submit several derivative statements to a systematic empirical test. The results are based on a secondary analysis of Lausanne survey data and the preliminary findings of a recent nation‐wide survey of the Swiss general electorate. The Lausanne results indicate that emotive dissatisfaction with personal status failures and felt aspiration—achievement discrepancies, especially among occupational skidders and immobile respondents, are among the more influential status‐anxiety factors associated with classical conservative ideology. The national survey results point to other related status insecurities and dissatisfactions which distinguish ultraconservative National Action and Republican party supporters from other party supporters in the Swiss general electorate. These results lend some comparative weight to the status politics explanation.

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“…According to a materialist interpretation of the "split labour market" on which Switzerland relies, native antagonism toward foreign laborers can be seen as the cumulative result of different labor costs, state mechanisms that control such matters as immigration policy, and a three-way conflict between employers (capital), expensive labor (domestic), and cheap labor (foreign). From this standpoint, it can be argued that some underprivileged Swiss native groups see the means for preserving their positions in the job structure (and the means for averting a latent or manifest threat that has long-run political overtones) only through an enforced remigration of foreign laborers to their country of origin (Schweitzer, 1978;see also Hoffmann-Nowotny, 1974;Jeffries et al, 1973Jeffries et al, , 1979,…”

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Social mobility, status attainment, and class formation: Theoretical, ideological, and methodological problems in international comparative research

Schweitzer

1981

Sociological Spectrum

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This paper is devoted to a critical review of recent theoretical and methodological developments in comparative social mobility research. Issues are raised concerning underlying assumptions and ideological commitments that determine the way questions about social mobility have been formulated and researched within the mainstream empirical tradition of comparative stratification and mobility research. Part of the aim is to provoke a critical rethinking of the problems and a reassessment of the alternatives. It is argued that a substantive and viable alternative lies in class-based, as distinct from status-centered, theorizing that draws into its purview a larger, more dynamic image of the mobility process and an empiricostructural analysis of the interrelationships between social mobility and the process of class formation, domination, and reproduction.Despite a long-standing interest in the comparative study of social mobility and the massive outpouring of comparative empirical results on mobility, little substantive knowledge has been firmly established. In fact, it has been argued that the state of knowledge about cross-societal variations in the rates, patterns, and processes of mobility has not progressed very far

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Values, Authoritarianism, and Antagonism toward Ethnic Minorities: A Swiss Replication

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

Individualism and Collectivism in America: The Case of Gun Ownership and Attitudes toward Gun Control

Individualism and Collectivism in America: The Case of Gun Ownership and Attitudes toward Gun Control

Status Politics and Conservative Ideology: A French‐swiss Case in National and Comparative Perspective*

Social mobility, status attainment, and class formation: Theoretical, ideological, and methodological problems in international comparative research

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