Prejudice as a Response to Perceived Group Threat: Population Composition and Anti-Immigrant and Racial Prejudice in Europe
1995/08/01 by Lincoln Quillian · 2,251 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Art #Composition (language) #Criminology #Demography #Electoral Systems and Political Participation #Gender studies #Immigration #Law #Migration, Refugees, and Integration #Political science #Population #Populism, Right-Wing Movements #Prejudice (legal term) #Psychology #Race (biology) #Racial composition #Social psychology #Sociology
paper · doi:10.2307/2096296
published in American Sociological Review 60(4), 586 (SAGE Publishing)
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Abstract
Lincoln Quillian, Prejudice as a Response to Perceived Group Threat: Population Composition and Anti-Immigrant and Racial Prejudice in Europe, American Sociological Review, Vol. 60, No. 4 (Aug., 1995), pp. 586-611
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