Ethnic and Racial Social Distance: Seven Decades Apart

Abstract

Comparison of findings of a 1925 study of social distance with 110 businessmen and teachers and of a 1993 study with 135 teachers, rating 24 ethnic groups on essentially the same Bogardus scale, showed that, while the size of mean distances had decreased, the preferential order of the target peoples had remained remarkably stable over the seven decades, the rank correlation being .86.