Group status drives majority and minority integration preferences

• Autor(a) principal: Hehman, E.
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Gaertner, S. L., Dovidio, J. F., Mania, E. W., Guerra, R., Wilson, David C., Friel, B. M.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/public/pub/id/15831; http://hdl.handle.net/10071/7110
• topic: Immigration; Intergroup dynamics; Sociocultural factors; Racial and ethnic attitudes and relations; Minority groups

This research examined preferences for national-and campus-level assimilative and pluralistic policies among Black and White students under different contexts, as majority-and minority-group members. We targeted attitudes at two universities, one where 85% of the student body is White, and another where 76% of students are Black. The results revealed that when a group constituted the majority, its members generally preferred assimilationist policies, and when a group constituted the minority, its members generally preferred pluralistic policies. The results support a functional perspective: Both majority and minority groups seek to protect and enhance their collective identities.