Notes that overall, blacks and especially younger blacks, hold a more negative view of the racial climate than do whites. Black-white relationships are reported to be better in Vietnam than in the United States especially among soldiers who served in actual combat. (Author/AM)

Personal attitudes toward social issues help people meet their needs either through benefits received from the attitude object or the attitude's expression. The personality, situational, and domain characteristics likely to influence the functional value of attitudes are discussed. Strategies for changing attitudes are briefly considered. (PS)

Study sought to identify those attitudinal and cognitive factors which prompt an individual to participate in protests designed to change government policy (DM)

Sex-role concepts of 162 senior college women are explored in relationship to ego strenght, happiness, and achievement plans: the majority of women believe it possible to assume the roles of wife and mother while concomitantly pursuing extra-familial interests. (Author/JM)

Presents evidence that there are relatively stable individual differences in the belief in a just world and that these differences may underlie the ways in which people react to victimized persons and groups, both outside and inside the experimental laboratory. (Author/AM)

Discusses the degree of support for civil liberties shown over the years in U.S. public opinion polls, summarizing the trends in American public opinion on tolerance of some forms of dissent shown in the 1954, 1972, 1973 and 1974 National Opinion Research Center polls, assorted Gallup and Harris polls, and other data sources. (JM)

Discusses six impediments to independent expression of opinion: risks of disapproval, lack of perceived alternatives, fear of disrupting the proceedings, absence of shared communication, inability to feel responsibility, and sense of impotence. Asserts that to overcome these impediments, socialization oriented to the critical evaluation of…

Focuses on social determinants of attitudes towards career women over the last several decades and how changes in these attitudes have been reflected in the design and interpretation of psychological research. (Author/JM)

There are serious shortcomings in the arguments that researchers have advanced to support the symbolic racism thesis. The following aspects are critically discussed: (1) concepts of symbolic racism; (2) methods used to measure symbolic racism; (3) the statement that traditional racism is a spent form; (4) the theorist's disregard of current…

The article discusses the following two explanations for White opposition to efforts to bring about social equality: (1) Whites' perception of Blacks as a threat to their personal lives; (2) Whites' endorsement of racist sentiments and traditional American values, particularly individualism. The second explanation is supported, and further…

The article reaffirms a negative judgment of symbolic racism, criticizing the following: (1) the suggestion that symbolic racism is a new form of racism; (2) the term "symbolic racism"; and (3) research on symbolic racism. The article also sketches a constructive agenda for research on racial policy reasoning. (PS)

Explores careers of 23 Black professional women involved in social change programs in urban Black communities. Discusses conflict between dominant culture professionalism and goals of social change, and difficulties in predicting behavior of the Black middle class with reference to combined effects of race and class or "nation-class"…

Whereas early Chinese and Japanese stereotypes were uniformly negative, reflecting the social, economic, and political climate in America, currently these Asian American groups are viewed as highly successful, model minorities; it is suggested that some stereotypes have a kernel of truth. (Author/JM)

Describes studies that investigate how labeling and stigmatization of the elderly might contribute to behavior that would confirm prevalent stereotypes of old age and lead to lowered self esteem and diminished feelings of control. Also discusses suggested strategies for social change. (Author/GC)