Community Influences On White Racial Attitudes: What Matters and Why?

Sociological Quarterly

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 220-243

  Taylor, Marylee C ^a   Mateyka, Peter J ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S CENSUS BUREAU   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNITY NETWORKS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; POPULATION GROUPS; RACE RELATIONS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79954588012     PISSN: 00380253     EISSN: 15338525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2011.01202.x     Document Type: Article

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