Political Correctness Beliefs, Threatened Identities, and Social Attitudes

Richard N. Lalonde; Lara Doan; Lorraine A. Patterson

doi:10.1177/1368430200033006

Political Correctness Beliefs, Threatened Identities, and Social Attitudes

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations ◽

10.1177/1368430200033006 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 317-336 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Richard N. Lalonde ◽

Lara Doan ◽

Lorraine A. Patterson

Keyword(s):

Political Correctness ◽

Social Attitudes ◽

Threatened Identities

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Structure of social attitudes based on lexical approach in Serbian-speaking area

Sociologija ◽

10.2298/soc1102195p ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 53 (2) ◽

pp. 195-212 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Boban Petrovic ◽

Janko Medjedovic

Keyword(s):

Political Correctness ◽

Basic Structure ◽

Social Attitudes ◽

Personality Psychology ◽

Western Democracy ◽

Sources Of Authority ◽

English Speaking ◽

Universal Structure ◽

Lexical Approach ◽

High Level

Although usually applied in the field of personality psychology, in the last decade there were attempts of applying the lexical paradigm in the studies social attitudes studies. One of those attempts was made by Saucier (2000), who included and analyzed all the words ending with the suffix ?-ism?. The product of this analyze is a two-form instrument called "Survey of Dictionary-Based Isms (SDI)", with its long, 40-item version, and brief, 28-item version. This instrument measures four main dimensions of basic social attitudes: alphaisms (traditional and religious sources of authority), betaisms (dismissing political correctness), gammaisms (believing in Western democracy) and deltaisms (personal spirituality). Until now, this instrument was only used in English-speaking area, and therefore the objective of this research was evaluation and validation of Saucier?s basic structure of social attitudes model in the Serbian-speaking area. In this research, conducted on the sample of 253 participants, both sexes, average age of 39.3 years (SD=14.9), a slightly shortened version of Saucier?s 24-item questionnaire was used. The results of this study contribute to the hypothesis of a universal structure of basic social attitudes: the factor analysis extracted four factors, which correlate from moderate to high level with the original dimensions. However, the structure and content of the factors pointed to a strong cultural influence on the forming and shaping the basic social attitudes. Practically, only the first factor, Religiosity, is a full replication of the original alpha factor. Other items built the factors somewhat different from the original: Hedonism, Rational Spirituality and Nationalism. The results show a better fitness of the model obtained in this study for the Serbian-speaking area compared to the original one.

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Alternative Comedy and Resistance to ‘Thatcher’s Britain’

10.1332/policypress/9781529208450.003.0004 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 57-76

Author(s):

James Brassett

Keyword(s):

Political Culture ◽

Political Correctness ◽

Political Identity ◽

Social Attitudes ◽

Critical Edge

This chapter foregrounds a central dilemma between the ‘success’ of alternative comedy in promoting certain values in the mainstream of UK political culture, e.g. equality, political correctness, and a potential for ‘recuperation’ of such resistance as the critical edge is superseded by TV friendly irony. Here comedy takes on an avowed sense of political identity, questioning social attitudes and orienting against neoliberalism.

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The Structure Among Measures of Personality, Social Attitudes, Values, and Social Norms

Journal of Individual Differences ◽

10.1027/1614-0001.28.4.240 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 28 (4) ◽

pp. 240-251 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

Lazar Stankov

Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Individual Differences ◽

Social Norms ◽

Social Interactions ◽

Correlation Matrix ◽

Social Attitudes ◽

Group Differences ◽

Factor Scores ◽

Ethnic Group Differences ◽

Inside Out

Abstract. This paper presents the results of a study that employed measures of personality, social attitudes, values, and social norms that have been the focus of recent research in individual differences. These measures were given to a sample of participants (N = 1,255) who were enrolled at 25 US colleges and universities. Factor analysis of the correlation matrix produced four factors. Three of these factors corresponded to the domains of Personality/Amoral Social Attitudes, Values, and Social Norms; one factor, Conservatism, cut across the domains. Cognitive ability showed negative correlation with conservatism and amoral social attitudes. The study also examined gender and ethnic group differences on factor scores. The overall interpretation of the findings is consistent with the inside-out view of human social interactions.

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