Historical context changes the content but not the structure of prejudice

Evidence

The framework outlined in figure 19.1 assumes that people and events are located within a social time and place, which alters the likelihood that socializers will be ingroup or outgroup members and that events and messages about the outgroup will be positive or negative. These elements have changed since Allport’s time, though the relations of the constructs may not have. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2007

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A genuinely counterintuitive claim worth sitting with: the relational architecture of prejudice may be invariant across eras even as all its raw materials shift — suggesting fixed human cognition meets fluid circumstance.
• XREF: Parallels the reader’s interest in how institutions and reputation structures persist across historical contexts from the Milgrom and diamond-cluster readings. — connects to: Question wording and historical context make cross-year race-attitude survey items non-comparable. — Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington, Why Did the Democrats Lose the South?…, 1330