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The Outsider

Prejudice and Politics in Italy

Pierangelo Peri, Rui J.P. de Figueiredo, Thomas Piazza, et al.

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One of the most wide-ranging studies of prejudice undertaken in a decade, The Outsider combines new research methods and rich analysis to upend many of our assumptions about prejudice. Noting that hostility toward immigrants has been on the rise throughout Western Europe, Paul Sniderman and his team conduct the first study of prejudice in Italy and offer insights applicable to nearly all countries worldwide. The study of prejudice, they argue, has been both stimulated and limited by tensions among partial theories. Prejudice and group conflict are said to be rooted in the psychological makeup of individuals, or alternatively, to spring from real competition over material goods or social status, or yet again, to follow in the wake of a quest for identity. It is the distinctive effort of The Outsider to develop a unified theory of prejudice integrating personality, realistic conflict, and social identity approaches.


Drawing on computer-assisted interviewing, this book focuses on Italy partly because it has experienced two different waves of immigration, from Northern Africa and Eastern Europe, and thus allows one to consider to what extent the color of immigrants' skin imposes a special burden of prejudice. Italy is also an apt site for the study of intolerance because of long-standing prejudices that have existed internally, between Northern and Southern Italians. The book's findings show that any point of difference--color, nationality, or language--marks the immigrant as an outsider. The fact of difference, not the particular mode of difference, is crucial. Moreover, the general election of 1994 provided a rare opportunity to investigate the political impact of prejudice when the party system was itself in the process of transformation. The authors uncover a potential line of cleavage: rather than prejudice being concentrated on the political right, it has a wide following among the less educated of the political left.


Analyzing the contributions of personality, social-structural factors, and political orientation to the wave of intolerance toward immigrants, The Outsider offers unprecedented insights into the phenomenon of prejudice and its link to politics.

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Falsity, Outgroup (cladistics), Henri Tajfel, Resentment, Racism, Requirement, Conflict theories, Household, Unemployment, Criticism, Prejudice, Tax, Suggestion, Ideology, Opinion poll, Response rate (survey), Jews, Competition, Ethnocentrism, Missing data, Conformity, Factor analysis, Italians, Self-report study, Group conflict, Social issue, Institution, Telephone number, Hostility, Explanation, Estimation, Instrumental variable, Rational choice theory, Measurement, Welfare, Authoritarianism, Latent variable, Politics, Public opinion, Opportunism, Cynicism (contemporary), Consideration, Sampling (statistics), Observational error, Irrationality, Voting, Causality, Identity (social science), Inference, Vulnerability, Immigration, Nationality, Political philosophy, Value (ethics), Controversy, Politician, Equation, Error term, Political party, Categorization, Centrality, Respondent, Aggression, Ingroups and outgroups, Exclusion, University of Trento, Communism, T-statistic, Economy and Society, Economic security