Attitudes Flashcards
What did Lapierre challenge in his study?
Predictive ability of attitudes
Who conducted a qualitative study on attitudes towards Chinese travellers across America?
Lapierre 1930
What was a cause for concern with Lapierre’s 1930 study?
Doesn’t say why he expected to find prejudice and gives little sense about attitudes as a product of larger society
What do many other theorists assume about attitudes?
They are pre-dispositions and psychological tendencies within a person
What were the results attained in Lapierre’s study?
Only one instance of prejudice in 252 establishments
Which theorist argues that attitudes are learned?
Allport
Who takes issue with attitude research?
Potter and Weatherill from a discursive stance
What does Manstead’s study of breast and bottle feeding confirm?
The predicted power of theory of reasoned action
What do Potter and Weatherill argue about attitudes?
Attitudes and objects in the world cannot be separated from the social
What have attitudes traditionally been conceptualised as?
Hypothetical constructs consisting of thoughts, feelings and behaviours
In response to criticism of Lapierre’s work who introduced the theory of reasoned action?
Fishbein and Ajzen
Whose research did Potter and Weatherill critique?
Marsh’s
Attitude surveys may look at people’s attitude to power but what do surveys fail to do?
They don’t deal with power itself
Why do Potter and Weatherill say it is fruitless to try and measure attitudes as if they were isolated entities?
Because they are fluid and not fixed
What do Potter and Weatherill argue with regard to agency structure?
Attitudes are active constructions formed in talk which is highly contextualised and individuals actively make sense of the world but their choice of positions are constrained by socially available positions
