Religious Prejudice and Intended Voting Behavior
A typology of religious prejudice is developed which differentiates prejudice based on ignorance or psychological abnormality and prejudice based on a conflict of values, and the extent to which each influences actual behavior. The typology is used to analyze the attitudes of young adult non-Catholi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1964
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1964, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 121-125 |
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| Summary: | A typology of religious prejudice is developed which differentiates prejudice based on ignorance or psychological abnormality and prejudice based on a conflict of values, and the extent to which each influences actual behavior. The typology is used to analyze the attitudes of young adult non-Catholics toward Catholics and Catholicism and the relationship of these attitudes to intended voting behavior. The data show that preference for Nixon or Kennedy is more closely associated with attitude toward Catholicism than with party affiliation or any other variable tested. Moreover, the extent to which anti-Catholic attitude actually influenced intended voting behavior is shown to be a function of the level of information about the Catholic Church. As was expected, the less informed are more likely to be anti-Catholic than the more informed, but, contrary to expectations, the less informed were less likely to let their attitude influence their vote than the more informed. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3709764 |