Two major studies of prejudice reached opposite conclusions about class mobility.

Evidence

The data at hand indicate that while slow upward mobility is closely associated with tolerance, rapid mobility, either upward or downward, is positively related to interethnic hostility.’ The authors of The Authoritarian Personality had reached almost the opposite conclusion: `We are led to suspect, on the basis of results in numerous areas, that upward class mobility and identification with the status quo correlate positively with ethnocentrism, and that downward class mobility and identification go with anti-ethnocentrism.’ — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 451

Categorization

• XREF: Directly sets The Authoritarian Personality’s ethnocentrism findings against the Chicago mobility study — useful reference point for tracking how the Berkeley research program was contested.
• QUESTION: Which variable actually drives the divergence — sample class composition, interview intensity, or each team’s underlying theory of society?