Acculturation and prejudice against sociological minorities among Brussels youth: a multilevel regression approach

This thesis aims at analysing the attitudes of youngsters in Brussels towards sociological minorities. The term “minorities” is used to refer to the main social groups that suffer from subordination and misrecognition by the wider society according to the philosophical theory of recognition: women, lesbians and gay men, and ethnic minorities. Our dataset is composed of a sample of seventy schools in the Brussels Capital Region. In total, three thousand one hundred and twenty one pupils attending in 2007 the last grade of secondary education participated in the study. About half of the sample c... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Teney, Céline
Dokumenttyp: doctoralThesis
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Verlag/Hrsg.: Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Schlagwörter: Sciences sociales / Sociologie / Minorities -- Social conditions -- Belgium -- Brussels / Minority youth -- Social conditions -- Belgium -- Brussels / Youth -- Attitudes -- Belgium -- Brussels / Multiculturalism -- Belgium -- Brussels / Acculturation -- Belgium -- Brussels / Prejudices -- Belgium -- Brussels / Minorités -- Conditions sociales -- Belgique -- Bruxelles / Jeunesse issue des minorités -- Conditions sociales -- Belgique -- Bruxelles / Jeunesse -- Attitudes -- Belgique -- Bruxelles / Multiculturalisme -- Belgique -- Bruxelles / Acculturation -- Belgique -- Bruxelles / Préjugés -- Belgique -- Bruxelles / multilevel techniques / quantitative analysis / minorities / Brussels / ethnic/immigrant issues / prejudice
Sprache: Englisch
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This thesis aims at analysing the attitudes of youngsters in Brussels towards sociological minorities. The term “minorities” is used to refer to the main social groups that suffer from subordination and misrecognition by the wider society according to the philosophical theory of recognition: women, lesbians and gay men, and ethnic minorities. Our dataset is composed of a sample of seventy schools in the Brussels Capital Region. In total, three thousand one hundred and twenty one pupils attending in 2007 the last grade of secondary education participated in the study. About half of the sample consists of pupils with a migrant background originating from about 100 different countries. This cultural diversity, reflecting one of the main characteristics of the population of the Brussels Capital Region, is at the centre of the thesis. Because of the hierarchical structure of the sample (pupils aggregated within schools), the culturally diverse population of our sample and the multidimensionality of prejudice, multilevel multivariate linear responses models were performed. In brief, these models allowed us to interpret items regrouped according to their common variation across social (and ethnic) groups and not according to their a priori content similarities. Furthermore, these models allowed us to integrate three different research traditions on prejudice: social psychology on the dimensionality of prejudice, sociology on the impact of socio demographic characteristics on prejudice and school effectiveness research on the role schools may play in reducing pupils’ prejudice. With these models, we could demonstrate the capacity of multilevel techniques to encompass the complexity of prejudice and norms, and to provide an interdisciplinary approach of social processes. Besides the impact of gender and socio economic differences on prejudice, the association between ethnic origin and prejudice was the focus of the analysis at the individual level. Hence, the empirical literature showed that respondents of foreign ...