Steven Tuch

George Washington University | GW · Department of Sociology

Using data from a unique series of surveys collected between 1963 and 2013, this study examines racial attitudes among young white adults in the Deep South over a 50‐year period. Repeated surveys of University of Alabama students in 1963, 1966, 1969, 1972, 1983, 1988, and 2013 measured racial stereotypes, support for racial segregation, and in the...

A topic of long-standing interest in racial attitudes research is whites’ support for principles of racial equality on one hand coupled with their intransigence on policies designed to redress that inequality on the other. Much has been written on possible explanations of this “principle-policy gap” and what the gap reveals about the state of conte...

Minority racial and ethnic groups often view themselves as targets of abusive treatment at the hands of the police. Although racial variation in public assessments of the police in the United States has been amply documented in past research, less research has explored the sources of these differences at the intersection of demographic, interaction...

Race and Policing in America is about relations between police and citizens, with a focus on racial differences. It utilizes both the authors' own research and other studies to examine Americans' opinions, preferences, and personal experiences regarding the police. Guided by group-position theory and using both existing studies and the authors' own...

This article examines the determinants of citizen satisfaction with police. Using data from a recent nationwide survey of Whites, Hispanics, and African Americans, the authors test several hypotheses about how situational and structural factors shape attitudes toward the police. Much has been written about Black-White differences in views of the po...

Previous research on job satisfaction largely ignores possible race differences in its determinants. This study examines two explanations of a race/job satisfaction relationship: a structural perspective focuses on objective job rewards; a dispositional, on the role of worker orientations. The former implies that characteristics of race; the latter...

This article explores the potential contributions of the economic segmentation framework in stratification research to the explanation of racial attitudes and beliefs. Employing data from a nationally representative telephone survey, the impact of sectoral location on whites’ views about the institutional production of racial inequality is examined...

The current controversy surrounding racial profi ling in America has focused renewed attention on the larger issue of racial bias by the police. Yet little is known about the extent of police racial bias and even less about public perceptions of the problem. This article analyzes recent national survey data on citizens' views of, and reported perso...

This article examines perceptions of police misconduct in the United States and the factors that influence these perceptions. Using data from a large, nationally representative survey of whites, African Americans, and His-panics, we examine how citizens' views of four types of police misconduct—verbal abuse, excessive force, unwar-ranted stops, and...

While the literature has extensively documented popular discontent with various types of police misconduct, little is known about popular support for corrective measures. Such information, however, would be valuable for public policy and has the potential to enhance public confidence in the police. This article, using data from a recent national su...

Studies of gender differences in orientation toward others have found that women are more strongly concerned than men with affective processes and are more likely to be other-focused, while men tend to be more instrumental and more self-oriented. Recent research has extended this finding to include gender differences in racial attitudes, and report...

This research builds on a series of recent studies that have reported independent effects of personal experiences of racial discrimination on poor mental health outcomes. We suggest that for one mental health outcome, problem drinking, discrimination experiences have an impact not only via abridged socioeconomic attainment and the frustrations asso...

Racial profiling by the police has become an increasingly controversial issue in recent years, but we know little about the extent of the problem and even less about public perceptions of profiling. This article analyzes recent national survey data on citizens' views of racial profiling. We find that both race and personal experience with profiling...

Recent work on the sociology of the professions, in general, and on the profession of medicine, in particular, target dramatic changes in the organization of social institutions, "boundary work" among professionals, and the implications of both for professional power. However, public attitudes cited in theories as a critical linchpin of professiona...

Our paper couples previous research on attitudes toward people with mental illness and more general sociological research on attitudes toward "out-groups " to examine the role of five factors that influence the public's willingness to interact with people with mental health problems, including: the nature of the behavior described, causal attributi...

Previous research has shown that Blacks are more likely than Whites to hold unfavorable opinions of criminal justice agencies in America, but the literature has rarely examined whether social class also affects these opinions. Using recent national survey data on perceptions of racial discrimination by the police and the criminal justice system, th...

Les AA. passent en revue les sondages realises aux Etats-Unis entre 1976 et 1995 qui analysent les opinions des jeunes americains vis-a-vis des relations inter-raciales. Ces enquetes permettent de saisir de quelle maniere ceux-ci envisagent leur experience de la diversite raciale ainsi que les relations entre les differentes communautes raciales au...

Illustrations Introduction by Jack K. Martin, E.M. Beck, and Steven A. Tuch The Transformation of Racial Attitudes in the United States Prologue: Reflections on Racial Attitude Research by A. Wade Smith Laissez-Faire Racism: The Crystallization of a Kinder, Gentler Anti Black Ideology by Lawrence Bobo, James R. Kluegel, and Ryan A. Smith The Racial...

Les AA. se demandent comment les afro-americains percoivent les stereotypes qui temoignent des prejuges dont ils sont victimes de la part des blancs. Ils soulignent que ces stereotypes concernent la moralite, la violence, l'intelligence, le patriotisme, la toxicomanie, l'alcoolisme, la piete, le dynamisme, l'autodiscipline et les capacites sportive...

This article examines Black‐White differences in life satisfaction among members of the middle class. Using national survey data for the period 1984 to 1994, its analysis shows that although the sources of satisfaction do not differ appreciably by race, middle‐class Blacks express lower absolute levels of satisfaction with several facets of their l...

Who votes in ASA elections? This article examines data on voter turnout from two recent presidential contests of the American Sociological Association in an analysis of the determinants of election participation. Extending the 1981 Ridgeway and Moore study of voting dynamics in the ASA, we hypothesize that intraorganizational networks and particula...

This research examines whether the propositions of Wirth (1938) and Stouffer (1955) concerning the effects on tolerance of urbanism, region, and particular geographic migration patterns can be generalized to racial tolerance. Using prejudice toward blacks as the outcome measure, an analysis of national survey data for the years between 1972 and 198...

In this article the relationship between economic sector and job satisfaction is explored. Given the absence of previous research, a framework relying on job satisfaction, dual labor market, and economic-segmentation literature is used to create two alternative hypotheses. If the externally defined objective characteristics of jobs are the critical...

A particular kind of latent class model is used to characterize the unobservable variable measured by six discrete indicators of racial stance in 1972 and 1977. Methods recently introduced by and ) for the simultaneous latent structure analysis of two multidimensional contingency tables are employed in across-year homogeneity tests on the latent cl...

Abstract,This research note examines the preferences of Americans of African descent for the label "black" versus "African-American." Racial labels have long been associated with majority-group attitudes toward minority-group members, and minorities themselves have changed their preferred terminology over time. We trace the evolution of racial labe...