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Prejudice as Lifeform *
Author(s) -
Fuchs Stephan,
Case Charles E.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1989.tb00108.x
Subject(s) - prejudice (legal term) , merge (version control) , sociology , epistemology , evolutionism , social psychology , sociocultural evolution , modernization theory , psychology , political science , philosophy , anthropology , law , computer science , information retrieval
Sociological research on racial prejudice has generated consistent and reliable empirical findings on the social determinants of prejudice, but comprehensive theoretical explanations of the social forces that promote prejudice tend to be controversial. Two such theoretical perspectives are examined and then compared for their ability to explain prejudice; namely Durkheim's theory of cognition and the neoevolutionist approach to sociocultural modernization and ontogenetic maturation. An attempt also is made to merge the interactionist and evolutionist arguments for the purpose of developing a comprehensive explanation of prejudice.