CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Popp, Raluca-Florica |
|---|---|
| Title | Intolerant Attitudes of Romanian Youth |
| Summary | In the present thesis I investigate the intolerant attitudes of Romanian youth, expressed as immigration skepticism and xenophobia, political intolerance and homophobia. Engaging social contact theory and social learning theory, I focus on the relationship between the effect of peer group diversity and intolerant attitudes, using a two-wave panel study on high school students, representative at national level. My findings show an overall limited effect of the hypothesized effects of discussions in the classroom environment, ethnic and racial tension in the school environment, interpersonal trust, academic performance, economic conditions and gender. The peer groups became more homogenous from the ninth to the twelfth grade; the regression analysis results suggest that as one’s group of peers is more homogenous, one has higher levels of immigration skepticism and xenophobia, political intolerance and homophobia. My analysis suggests that religiosity holds strong and positive effects on immigration skepticism and xenophobia, political intolerance and homophobia, and that males have more homophobic attitudes than females. The panel nature of the data revealed that the levels of immigration skepticism and xenophobia assessed in the ninth grade predict the levels of immigration skepticism and xenophobia, political intolerance and homophobia in the twelfth grade. The results suggest that Romania follows the pattern of Central and Eastern European countries only in some aspects, such as the relationships between age and intolerance, and religiosity and intolerance. I argue that the classification of Western and Central and Eastern Europe does not suffice anymore in anticipating the patterns of predictors of intolerant attitudes, and a more specific classification is necessary. |
| Supervisor | Enyedi, Zsolt |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/popp_raluca.pdf |
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