Rated as the only project of its kind ever undertaken, the lengthy study resulted in the development of the famed bogardus ethnic distance scale, used the world over. Thus, if you say you are willing to let me live in your neighborhood, you would be automatically willing to let me live in your city and in your country. Evaluation of a classroom exercise on social distance by. The bogardus social distance scales continue to be used in studies of intergroup relations dietrich et al. Over the past century or so, focus groups have been used for many purposes. The sdsj, an 8item inventory makita, 2006 adapted from the whatley social distance scale whatley, 1959, was designed to measure social distance toward schizophrenia. None of the scales in the see also section are upcased.
The bogardus social distance scale was an early technique for measuring attitudes toward racial and ethnic groups. Bogardus social distance scale a measurement technique to determine the willingness of people to participate in social relations with other kinds of people. Emory bogardus and the origins of the social distance scale article pdf available in the american sociologist 384. Bogardus is said to be a pioneer in creating a measuring device in the social sciences. Assignment the bogardus social distance scale bogardus. Replication and extension, international journal for the scholarship of teaching and learning. Focus group methodology can be traced back to emory bogardus, who in 1926 described group interviews in his social psychological research to develop social distance scale wilkinson 2004. View notes bogardus social distance scalebogardus social distance scale angela lippy 1162011 marti pizzini when completing this assignment i was surprised at the outcome of this survey. The bogardus notes on file at the usc archives show that he considered the. Bogardus, a social distance scale, sociology and social research 31933. It asks why it is the only theory emerging from the. Bogardus social distance scale a scaling technique for measuring social distance, pioneered by emory s. This chapter will use a subsample from the 2007 surveythose respondents.
The basic concept behind the bogardus scale is that the more prejudiced an. This paper investigates the social distance scale as a method to measure the degree of resentment towards immigrant groups invented by the university of southern california sociologist emory s. Lowercase will match the formatting of related article titles. How much would you mind or not mind if someone of a different racial group or ethnic background was appointed to. The authors use primary and secondary data, including. Bogardus social distance scale bsds bogardus, 1925, 1933, as a way to. Social distance article about social distance by the. The cultural validation of two scales to assess social. Prejudice and bogardus social distance scale vivify. Incidentally, bogardus established one of the first departments of sociology on american soil at the university of southern california in 1915. Are you willing to let sex offenders live in your community. Each student can decide how they want to share the thoughts and.
Thank you for participating in this research effort. Ryan sheppard, the professor of our sociological research. Social distance is one of the most successful concepts in international sociology. The course instructor selects a target group for the bsds i. Guided by attribution theory, this study assessed stigmatizing attitudes towards an individual with anorexia nervosa an compared to obesity and skin cancer, and examined the extent to which manipulating a target individuals level of blameworthiness affects levels of stigmatizing attitudes. Reliability and validity of the workplace social distance. One hundred and thirtyfive female undergraduate students were randomly assigned to one of three. Request pdf bogardus social distance scale the bogardus social distance scale was an early technique for measuring attitudes toward racial and ethnic. This scale is one way of trying to gage how distant or how much we connect with people from other groupscollectives. Introduction teaching about prejudice with a bogardus social. Bogardus to empirically measure peoples willingness to participate in social contacts of varying degrees of closeness with members of diverse social groups, such as racial and ethnic groups the scale asks people the extent to which they would be accepting of each group a score of 1.
A scale that measures the distance between two or more social groups by having members of one group express the point at which they feel comfortable with various types of social interaction or closeness with members of the other groups. This research was developed during the 1920s, when bogardus was the director of the pacific coast race relations survey. The scale was developed by emory bogardus in 1924 and is still widely used in measuring prejudice. Students n266 in six sections of a family development course received either lecture or lecture plus the activity and completed two pretest and posttest measures. Rated as the only project of its kind ever undertaken, the lengthy study resulted in the development of the famed bogardus ethnic distance scale, used the world. The original social distance scale has been revised three times. Pdf emory bogardus and the origins of the social distance scale. Evaluation of a classroom exercise on social distance and. Are you willing to let sex offenders live in your country. In making the social distance scale in its present form, the writer prepared.
Social distance and social proximity even less literature directly relates to the second question. What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link page. Extensively used today in studies of ethnic, class, gender, status, and many other kinds of relations, social distance is most often measured according to the bogardus social distance scale, or some modification of it. In making the social distance scale in its present form,1 the writer prepared a list of 60 single sentence descriptions, nearly all of which were heard in ordinary conversations where a person was expressing himself about other persons. Homonym for prejudice and pandemic mitigation donald guy introduction social distance in the form of a noun is associated with prejudice and discrimination, and is somewhat synonymous with segregation. Bogardus social distance scale bogardus social distance scale. Minority religious identity and religious social distance in australia 49 from people from a range of religious groups. Bogardus social distance scale sage research methods. Bogardus as a technique for measuring the willingness of people to participate in social relations with other kinds of people. Social distancing as a verb is promoted by the cdc and who as a pandemic mitigation strategy. The term was introduced by park and burgess 1924 and popularized by bogardus. Caps wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization and wp. It has been translated into several languages, and used in many countries in measuring attitudes toward a variety of groups.
An attitude scale for measuring how closely people would be willing to associate with members of social and ethnic groups other than their. Proceedings and publications of the american sociological society. In contrast, high social distance implies that the person is separate, a stranger, or an outsider baumann, 2007. View notes assignment the bogardus social distance scale from eth 125 125 at university of phoenix. Bogardus scale, social distance survey questionnaire. In making the social distance scale in its present form,1 the writer prepared a. Bogardus designed a scale to measure peoples willingness to participate in social contacts of varying degrees of closeness with members of diverse social groups. Students n266 in six sections of a family development course received either lecture or lecture plus. Bogardus social distance 1 bogardus social distance scale tabitha neufind eth 125 may 20,2010 amy. Since 1925, the bogardus social distance scale has been a staple in. Social distance the concept of social distance was. In particular, the us military see merton 1987, marxist.
It measures the degrees of warmth, hostility, indifference or intimacy between these groups. Emory bogardus and the origins of the social distance scale. Stigmatizing attitudes towards individuals with anorexia. Evaluation of a classroom exercise on social distance and discrimination abstract this project evaluated a class activity on social distance and discrimination using the bogardus social distance scale. On one end of scale a person may not maintain social distance score 1 i.
In order for the test to valid honesty is essential. A close social distance scale means a person would allow a marriage in the family with a person from another culture. Bogardus social distance scale pdf a social distance scale. Social distance as bogardus defined it is an affinity between people, and regardless of the label, it is primarily a subjective psychological distance, as some like sorokin 1969, p. Thus, the preferred social distance could be greater or lesser. Teaching about prejudice with a bogardus social distance. Affective social distance is probably the most widely known type and the one that is the cause of great concern among sociologists. The scale attempts to measure respondents degree of warmth, intimacy, indifference, or hostility to particular social relationships, by having them indicate agreement or. Bogardus social distance scale cerro coso college sociology c151 r. Research using the bogardus social distance scale shows that u. The authors use primary and secondary data, including an.
The authors use primary and secondary7 data, including an interview with. The author comments on a paper by university of southern california professor emory s. Bogardus was introduced to the concept of social distance by park who described it as. Bogardus monumental study of social distance involved interviewing more than 8000 persons to survey cultural and ethnic attitudes in the u. Since, the bogardus social distance scale has been a staple in social science research. It is a selfreport inventory that can be used by psychiatric nurses and medical students, as it was modified by rephrasing portions of the original scale. Title, this is a generic, common term, not a propriety or commercial term, so the article title should be downcased. The bogardus social distance scale is based on the simple logic that some responses other lesser responses. The primary research tool used to measure social distance between ethnic groups is the bogardus social distance scale, developed in the. Bogardus social distance scale request pdf researchgate. The basic concept behind the bogardus scale is that the more prejudiced an individual is against a particular group, the less that person will wish to interact with members of that group r.
Bogardus social distance scale is defined as a scale that measures varying degrees of closeness in people towards other members of diverse social, ethnic or. This test should be done privately and will not be publically shown. This project evaluated a class activity on social distance and discrimination using the bogardus social distance scale. He was optimistic about the future, convinced that the decline in social distance.
Place a checkmark against all statements with which you agree. Affective social distance was defined by emory bogardus, who created the bogardus social distance scale for measuring it. The bogardus social distance scale measures attitudes about how close or distant people feel towards other people. Content pages of the encyclopedia of religion and social. The bogardus scale 23 was originally a selfcompleting questionnaire that used a socalled guttman scale ranked binary answers comprising a series of. Pdf this article provides some history of sociology by focusing on the origins of the bogardus.
The bogardus social distance scale is a psychological testing scale created by emory s. Bogardus in the 1930s, usually applied to the study of ethnic relations, social classes, and social values generally. The scoring procedure is kept as simple as possible, so that persons may score their own test records. Conceptions of social distance are formally institutionalized in extreme systems of social stratification, such as apartheid and caste, but informally they exist in all societies. The general assumption is that people vary in their openness or willingness to participate in activities involving diverse social groups. These statements represent several different types of social relationships. Bogardus social distance scale is defined as a scale that measures varying degrees of closeness in people towards other members of diverse social, ethnic or racial groups. As illustrated in the example questionnaire in figure 1 below, the. Results revealed greater positive shifts on the scale for students who received the activity, but equivalent. Emory bogardus, 18821973, sociology and social research 431973. Bogardus social distance scale, discrimination, attitude change, class activity. Bogardus social distance scale bakersfield college.