Bloemhoff, Nina (2023) The effect of discrimination on one´s attitude toward their own ethnic background. Bachelor thesis, Sociology.
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Discrimination happens in many ways and in many places, and it has many negative consequences. But it might also have a positive impact on the attitude one holds toward their own ethnic background according to ethnic affirmation and disintegration opposed to the cognitive dissonance theory and the social identity theory, that state it does have a negative impact on that attitude. This effect could also differ for different ethnicities. I researched this to find what the effect of discrimination is on the attitude one holds toward their own ethnic background. The hypotheses for this were: 1. If people from an ethnic minority background experience discrimination, then their attitude is stronger and they have a positive connection to their own ethnic background.; 2. If people from an ethnic minority background experience discrimination, then their attitude is that they feel less connected and less proud toward their own ethnic background.; and 3. The effect of discrimination on attitude is more for Surinamese and Antillean people opposed to Turkish and Moroccan people. I did this research by running an analysis, which consisted of a sample of Turkish, Moroccan and other non-western people. From this analysis it was concluded that a higher level of experienced discrimination did not significantly correlate with a positive attitude, but also that a high level of experienced discrimination did not significantly correlate with a negative attitude. But the effect was slightly positive. There were also no significant findings for the difference in effects between ethnicities. But the effect was more positive for Surinamese and Antillean respondents and the effect for Moroccans was negative.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Giardini, F. and Smaniotto, R.C. |
| Degree programme: | Sociology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Sociology] |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Aug 2023 11:42 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Aug 2023 11:42 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2809 |
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