Southerners The Social Psychology of Sectionalism

Name: Southerners The Social Psychology of Sectionalism
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ISBN: 9781439212370

ISBN-10: 1439212376

ISBN-13: 9781439212370

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Authors: John Reed

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In this pioneering study of what it means to be Southern, John Shelton Reed uses a survey to examine Southerners as an ethnic group. He finds that such experiences as urban residence, travel, education, and media exposure generally erode such traditional attitudes as ethnocentrism, racism, fatalism, localism, authoritarianism, xenophobia, and resistance to innovation. At the same time, however, Reed shows that these modernizing experiences heighten regIonal consciousness among Southerners. Reed concludes that "despite mass society, Southerners are and apparently will remain 'different'; because of [mass society], they will remain aware of their difference." In this, he writes, Southerners…

Book details

List price: $13.99
Publisher: CreateSpace
Publication date: 10/9/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 4.50" wide x 7.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English

John Reed lives in New York City. "A Still Small Voice" is his first novel.