Valores sociais e preconceito racial : como percebo a mim e ao outro

• Autor(a) principal: Lins, Samuel Lincoln Bezerra
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/7002
• topic: Racismo; Valores sociais; Preconceito; Primeiro e Terceiro Mundo; Racism; Social values; Prejudice; First and Third World; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

Racial prejudice is a thoroughly discussed and relevant theme in Brazil, where efforts have been done to identify that influence its outbreak. Social values are important factors due to their assimilation of widely diffused structures among social groups, also encompassing individual and social aspects. That is why it is important to investigate the relationship between values and prejudice. This dissertation is composed by two studies. Empirical Study I aimed at analyzing the the relationship between values and the various expressions of racism. This study was conducted with two samples: the first one with 220 students from a private higher education institution from João Pessoa PB (150 women and 70 men, mean age 24 years, SD = 6.22). And the second one had 200 public university undergraduate students (135 women and 65 men, mean age 22 years, SD = 4.3) from the same city. The employed instruments were: Psychosocial values questionnaire (QVP-24), Perceived distances scale, Affirmative policies rejection scale, Intimacy rejection scale (flagrant prejudice) and Scale of Favorable Attitudes toward 1st and 3rd world. With the aim of verifying if there are differences between the values attributed by students to themselves and to social groups (black and white) comparisons of means were made (t-test). Results indicate that the students of both universities practically attribute to themselves values related to Social Justice and Personal Development, whereas Material and Hedonistic (3rd world) values are attributed to the white and Social Justice (1st world) is attributed to the black. Further, a factor analysis (Varimax rotation) to verify the internal structure of the scales and to confirm the internal consistency of factors. The employed scales presented acceptable reliability and validity indexes in both studies. Finally, with the aim of verifying if study variables Psychosocial Values, Proximity to Black and White, Favorable Attitude toward 1st and 3rd world, and sociodemographic variables (Independent Variables, IV) influence Flagrant and Symbolic Prejudice directly (Dependent Variable, DV), a multiple linear regression (stepwise method) was carried out. It could be verified that the adhesion to Hedonistic and Materialistic values, that having a favorable attitude toward first world countries and having a proximity with the white are predictors of prejudice expression, as well as the adhesion to Social Justice and Religiosity values and the proximity with black people presented a relationship with the non expression of prejudice. The initial assumption from the study stated that third world values would be attributed to the black, and first world values to the white, but results were inverted, which contributed to the conduction of another study. Empirical Study II aimed at verifying what social values are attributed by undergraduate students to 1st and 3rd world people. A total of 220 students from a public university of the city of João Pessoa (75 men and 145 women), with mean age of 21 years (SD = 3; min = 17 and max = 34) took part of the study. Students were asked to indicate, in order of importance, three of the 24 values from the QVP-24 that he or she would classify as First and Third World values. First world countries were associated with values related to Individual Development and Materialism, while values related to Social Justice, Professional Development, Hedonism and Religiosity were attributed to 3rd World countries. The results from the second study indicated that the initial assumptions of the first study were coherent. The study allows to consider the adhesion to values in direct relationship with the expression of racial prejudice, and that skin color (black and white) influences in value attribution.