The Symbolic Racism 2000 Scale

By P. Henry, D. O. Sears. 2002

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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On Assessing the Political Effects of Racial Prejudice (2009, background): “The view that racial discrimination no longer affected blacks was incorporated as a part of the new racism by McConahay & Hough (1976), and items have been included in various new-racism scales to assess this belief (Kinder & Sanders 1996, Henry & Sears 2002).”
The origins of symbolic racism. (2003, background): “First, ideology has little influence over racial policy preferences once Black individualism and/or symbolic racism are considered (see Study 2; also see Henry & Sears, 2002; Sears et al., 1997).”
A Preliminary Report on the Relationship Between Microaggressions Against Black People and Racism Among White College Students (2017, background): “Symbolic Racism Scale 2000 (SR2K; Henry and Sears 2002).”
No Place for Nostalgia in Science: A Response to Arkes and Tetlock (2004, background): “Together they form a logically, psychologically, and statistically coherent belief system (Tarman & Sears, in press), measured with an updated scale including all four themes (Henry & Sears, 2002).”
Social psychological perspectives on the legitimation of social inequality: Past, present and future (2013, neutral): “…negative racial affect picked up in childhood with individualistic, politically conservative opinions and values— permits opposition to a range of policies that are designed to promote the general welfare and advancement of members of disadvantaged groups (Henry & Sears, 2002; Sears & Henry, 2005).”
Empathy constrained: Prejudice predicts reduced mental simulation of actions during observation of outgroups. (2010, background): “During a mass testing session in an introductory psychology course, participants completed the symbolic racism scale (Henry & Sears, 2002) — a measure of modern racism, indicative of a subtle form of racism that obscures racist feelings with abstract values, such as justice and order.”
Host society's dislike of the Islamic veil: The role of subtle prejudice, values, and religion. (2009, background): “…scale has been successfully used in a variety of countries and studies, and with a variety of minority groups (Pettigrew & Meertens, 2001, for a review); and it is also known as a measure of ‘‘subtle racism’’ (e.g., Henry & Sears, 2002; Hewstone, Rubin, & Willis, 2002; Van Hiel & Mervielde, 2005).”
Public Opinion and Affordable Housing: A Review of the Literature (2010, neutral): “The first, evident in the research of Sears et al. (1997), Green, Staerkle, and Sears (2006), Tarman (2005), Henry (2002), and Reyna et al. (2005) suggests that the dramatic shift in public attitudes is partly due to political correctness.”