Individual and structural symbolic racism share a single underlying attitudinal structure

Evidence

Finally, we again find a slight improvement in fit by splitting symbolic racism into its individual and structural variants. Although the SR Theory model provides an acceptable fit to the data, the fit indices for the models that distinguish those variants are all somewhat better. However, the two variants of symbolic racism are highly correlated (f = . and .74). This again suggests that these items are tapping the same underlying attitudinal structure and can be treated as slightly different variants of the same belief system. — Christopher Tarman and David O. Sears, The Conceptualization and Measurement…, 191

Categorization

• XREF: Correlates with the structuralism/individualism split the reader studies in group-identity attachment vs glorification variants. — connects to: Symbolic racism may decompose into separate attitude factors rather than one coherent belief system — Christopher Tarman and David O. Sears, The Conceptualization and Measurement…, 22; Racism operates at a structural level irreducible to interpersonal group rivalry — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1388; Racism functions structurally apart from individuals’ personal intent — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1477

Related

• Symbolic racism may decompose into separate attitude factors rather than one coherent belief system (similarity 0.88)
• Racism operates at a structural level irreducible to interpersonal group rivalry (similarity 0.87)
• Racism theories divide into ideology-focused and structural-inequality approaches (similarity 0.86)
• Symbolic racism measurement is internally coherent and unified. (similarity 0.85)
• Racism functions structurally apart from individuals’ personal intent (similarity 0.85)
• Symbolic racism’s discriminant validity from allied constructs is empirically testable (similarity 0.83)
• Structural racism operates beyond individual intentions and prejudice (similarity 0.83)
• Distinct consequences indicate whether symbolic-racism variants are truly separate constructs. (similarity 0.82)
• Racism cannot be reduced to a scaled-up version of interpersonal prejudice (similarity 0.82)
• Controversy over symbolic racism measures is empirically moot since all variants predict equally. (similarity 0.81)
• Symbolic racism is empirically distinct from old-fashioned racism. (similarity 0.81)
• Antiblack affect is a consistent, stable engine of symbolic racism across studies (similarity 0.81)
• Symbolic racism differs from traditional prejudice only in measurement, not theory (similarity 0.81)
• Symbolic racism scales measure a distinct attitude rather than mere conservatism (similarity 0.81)
• Symbolic racism loads on a statistically distinct factor from older racism forms (similarity 0.80)