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CONTEXT AND THE EXPRESSED ETHNIC PREFERENCES OF INFANT SCHOOL CHILDREN
Author(s) -
Madge Nicola J. H.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1976.tb00408.x
Subject(s) - ethnic group , contest , psychology , situational ethics , context (archaeology) , developmental psychology , white (mutation) , social psychology , sociology , paleontology , biochemistry , chemistry , anthropology , political science , gene , law , biology
SUMMARY Forty‐four children–white and black, boys and girls–from the top classes of a London multi‐racial infants’school were given several tests designed to reveal racial awareness and racial preferences. Ii was Found that the children were aware of ethnic differences but that the extent and direction of their expressed ethnic preferences were strongly influenced by that situational contest and by the competing variables upon which their choices of figures could alternatively be based.