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One of the most wide-ranging studies of prejudice undertaken in a decade, The Outsider combines new research methods and rich analysis to upend many of our assumptions about prejudice. Noting that hostility toward immigrants has been on the rise throughout Western Europe, Paul Sniderman and his team conduct the first study of prejudice in Italy and offer insights applicable to nearly all countries worldwide. The study of prejudice, they argue, has been both stimulated and limited by tensions among partial theories. Prejudice and group conflict are said to be rooted in the psychological makeup of individuals, or alternatively, to spring from real competition over material goods or social status, or yet again, to follow in the wake of a quest for identity. It is the distinctive effort of The Outsider to develop a unified theory of prejudice integrating personality, realistic conflict, and social identity approaches.
Drawing on computer-assisted interviewing, this book focuses on Italy partly because it has experienced two different waves of immigration, from Northern Africa and Eastern Europe, and thus allows one to consider to what extent the color of immigrants skin imposes a special burden of prejudice. Italy is also an apt site for the study of intolerance because of long-standing prejudices that have existed internally, between Northern and Southern Italians. The books findings show that any point of difference--color, nationality, or language--marks the immigrant as an outsider. The fact of difference, not the particular mode of difference, is crucial. Moreover, the general election of 1994 provided a rare opportunity to investigate the political impact of prejudice when the party system was itself in the process of transformation. The authors uncover a potential line of cleavage: rather than prejudice being concentrated on the political right, it has a wide following among the less educated of the political left.
Analyzing the contributions of personality, social-structural factors, and political orientation to the wave of intolerance toward immigrants, The Outsider offers unprecedented insights into the phenomenon of prejudice and its link to politics.

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THE OUTSIDER THE OUTSIDER PREJUDICE AND POLITICS IN ITALY Paul M Sniderman - photo 1
THE OUTSIDER
THE OUTSIDER
PREJUDICE AND POLITICS IN ITALY
Paul M. Sniderman
Pierangelo Peri
Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, Jr.
Thomas Piazza
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD
Copyright 2000 by Princeton University Press
Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street,
Princeton, New Jersey 08540
In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press,
3 Market Place, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1SY
All Rights Reserved
Second printing, and first paperback printing, 2002
Paperback ISBN 0-691-09497-7
The Library of Congress has cataloged the cloth edition of this book as follows
The outsider : prejudice and politics in Italy / Paul M. Sniderman, et al.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-691-04839-8 (CL : alk. paper)
eISBN 978-0-691-22385-8
1. ItalyRace relations. 2. ItalyEthnic relations. 3. RacismItaly.
4. ItalyEmigration and immigration. 5. Culture conflictItaly.
6. ItalySocial conditions1976-1994. 7. ItalySocial
conditions1994-1. Sniderman, Paul M.
DG455.O96 2000
303.3'8751dc21 99-089723
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available
https://press.princeton.edu/
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To Madame Isabelle de Vienne
Acknowledgments
IN THE BEGINNING our orientation was critical. Contemporary theories of prejudice were too "social," we were persuaded. They left out the individual. Our objective was correspondingly modestto strike a fairer balance and show that individual factors as well as social ones played a role. But the more we read of contemporary approachesabove all, the more we reflected on the contribution of Henri Tajfelthe more persuaded we were that he, not we, was right. He was not right on every pointcertainly not about the irrelevance of personality, as an abundance of statistical analyses will showbut right nonetheless about the heart of the matter. This, then, is the story of a discovery stamped with ironies: on our side, that in setting out to show Tajfel and his colleagues to be wrong, we found that prejudice could be understood best through the lens of their work; on their side, that the very mechanism that they thought crucially underpins the social basis of prejudice, "categorization" as they have labeled it, in fact makes intelligible the impact of the factor that they insisted was irrelevant, namely, personality. And if we reject the idea of sides, a theoretical perspective emerges, integrating a whole medley of approachestheirs, ours, and others besides.
Carrying out a national survey, and doing so with a multinational team of investigators, requires many helpingand generoushands. Our largest debt is to the University of Trento and, more particularly, to the following people: Fulvio Zuelli, who, as rector of the University of Trento, encouraged and funded the principal portion of our study; Antonio Schizzerotto who, as dean of the Sociology Faculty, strongly supported the project and, as research colleague, got this project off the ground; Carlo Buzzi, Francesca Sartori, Barbara Ongari, and Renato Porro, our colleagues at Trento, whose ideas contributed to the development of the research instrument and whose encouragement helped in the completion of the work; Mario Callegaro, whose energy, patience, and hard work as supervisor of interviewing was indispensable; and the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento, which provided both financial support and a hospitable environment for the project. Finally, we very gratefully thank the Fondazione Caritro and its president, Giovanni Pegoretti, for their financial contribution to our International Conference in 1995.
We are indebted as well to Stanford University and more particularly to the Institute for International Studies, which made it possible for us to teach as well as do research on Italian politics; to the Center for European Studies, which supported our International Conference; and, above all, to Walter Falcon who, as director of the Institute of International Studies, stood behind both. We also want to thank Norman Nie, director of the Stanford Institute of Quantitative Studies of Society, for support and encouragement in completion of the manuscript. Our partners in this study, as in its predecessors, were the Computer-assisted Survey Methods Program (CSM) at the University of California at Berkeley, under the leadership of J. Merrill Shanks, and the Survey Research Center (SRC) at Berkeley, under the leadership of Michael Hout. The SRC assisted in the design of the instrument, and all of the special features of the interview schedules were made possible by the CASES program developed by CSM. Finally, we owe a special debt to the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California. The expertise of those at the institute, together with a unique archive of validational studies of personality, has been indispensable.
Our debts to individuals are as large as those to institutions. For counsel on issues of measurement and estimation we want to thank Brian Gaines, Paul Gertler, and James Wiley and, for going well beyond the duties of collegiality, Henry Brady, Douglas Rivers and Peer Scheepers. Zach Elkins was indispensable in the last lap, replicating our model over a whole medley of measurement assumptions. Above all, we are in debt to Louk Hagendoorn of the University of Utrecht and Philip Tetlock of the Ohio State University for a stream of suggestions, both critical and constructive; indeed, we have so often taken their advice that we are fully prepared to email any criticisms straight on to them. We are grateful to our families for both their generous and unstinting assistance on this study (some even going so far as to accompany us on the fieldwork) and, not less important, their gracious but unyielding insistence that we bring this work to a finish. In particular, we should like to acknowledge and thank Teresa Peri, Rui and Isabel de Figueiredo, Mary Crosby, and Susan Sniderman.
It may seem inappropriate to single out for appreciation one person in particular, since we are obliged to many for so much. But were it not for the way that she spontaneously and ingeniously marshaled the resources of the Institut d'tudes Politiques de Paris, this book would not have been written. To mark our gratitude for the generosity that makes possible an international community of scholars, we gratefully dedicate this book to Madame Isabelle de Vienne.
THE OUTSIDER
CHAPTER 1
Introduction
TWO STORIES, both reported in a Milan newspaper, the Corriere Delia Sera: The first comes from Genoa and the latter from Rome:
[A]t 3 o'clock in the morning, Samlal Ali, a 24-year-old Moroccan, was selling cigarettes to passers-by. A car with four youths inside stopped in front of him. The man sitting next to the driver leaned out and said something to the Moroccan. He then grabbed him by the neck and pulled his head into the car. Then, at 80 kph, the Moroccan was dragged along the asphalt for a kilometer, hanging onto the car, his head trapped in the window, crashing into parked cars, rubbish bins, and lamp-posts. The men in the car hit him repeatedly. The nightmare was only ended when the car was stopped by a police patrol. The four men, Massimiliano Bordonaro and Constantino Carta, both 23, Davide Cavallaro, 18, and Giovanni Mariani, 30, have been arrested for attempted murder.
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