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Politics and Prejudice: How Political Discussion With Peers Is Related to Attitudes About Immigrants During Adolescence

Research on prejudice has shown that with whom we surround ourselves matters for intergroup attitudes, but these studies have paid little attention to the content of those interactions. Studies on political socialization and deliberation have focused on the content of interaction by examining the tr...

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Autores principales: Bohman, Andrea, Hjerm, Mikael, Eger, Maureen A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8022588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33869392
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2019.00070
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description Research on prejudice has shown that with whom we surround ourselves matters for intergroup attitudes, but these studies have paid little attention to the content of those interactions. Studies on political socialization and deliberation have focused on the content of interaction by examining the transmission of norms as well as the direct consequences of political discussion on attitudes and behavior. However, this literature has not focused on prejudice as a potential consequence. In this study, we combine these approaches to examine if political discussions with peers during adolescence matter for prejudice. We rely on five waves of a Swedish panel of adolescents, ages 13–22. Results show an association between political discussion and prejudice over time, and that this relationship increases as adolescents grow older. Results also demonstrate that the effect of political discussions depends on the level of prejudice in one's peer network. Discussion with low prejudice friends is associated with lower levels of prejudice over time, while political discussion with high prejudice peers is not significantly related to attitudes.
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spelling pubmed-80225882021-04-15 Politics and Prejudice: How Political Discussion With Peers Is Related to Attitudes About Immigrants During Adolescence Bohman, Andrea Hjerm, Mikael Eger, Maureen A. Front Sociol Sociology Research on prejudice has shown that with whom we surround ourselves matters for intergroup attitudes, but these studies have paid little attention to the content of those interactions. Studies on political socialization and deliberation have focused on the content of interaction by examining the transmission of norms as well as the direct consequences of political discussion on attitudes and behavior. However, this literature has not focused on prejudice as a potential consequence. In this study, we combine these approaches to examine if political discussions with peers during adolescence matter for prejudice. We rely on five waves of a Swedish panel of adolescents, ages 13–22. Results show an association between political discussion and prejudice over time, and that this relationship increases as adolescents grow older. Results also demonstrate that the effect of political discussions depends on the level of prejudice in one's peer network. Discussion with low prejudice friends is associated with lower levels of prejudice over time, while political discussion with high prejudice peers is not significantly related to attitudes. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-10-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8022588/ /pubmed/33869392 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2019.00070 Text en Copyright © 2019 Bohman, Hjerm and Eger. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_full Politics and Prejudice: How Political Discussion With Peers Is Related to Attitudes About Immigrants During Adolescence
title_fullStr Politics and Prejudice: How Political Discussion With Peers Is Related to Attitudes About Immigrants During Adolescence
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title_short Politics and Prejudice: How Political Discussion With Peers Is Related to Attitudes About Immigrants During Adolescence
title_sort politics and prejudice: how political discussion with peers is related to attitudes about immigrants during adolescence
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8022588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33869392
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2019.00070
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