Citation

Katz MR. Am. J. Sociol. 1947; 53(2): 100-104.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1947, University of Chicago Press)

DOI

10.1086/220113

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Measurement of race attitudes of a group of Seventh-Day Adventist high-school children in relation to their perceptions of the race attitudes of their parents, teachers, and classmates indicates that there is closest conformity to the perceived attitude of parents; that the individual's perception of attitude norms is strongly influenced by his own attitude; that he tends to project conflicting components of his own attitude upon these different environmental forces; and that race attitudes of the least prejudiced individuals tend to conform quite closely to perceived norms, whereas the most prejudiced individuals tend to deviate markedly from the attitude norms as they conceive them.