Symbolic Racism or Self-Interest? Comparing Rural and Urban Worries about Obamacare

Comparing urban and rural physicians.

Whites' Opposition to Busing: Symbolic Racism or Realistic Group Conflict?

The theory of symbolic racism contends that whites' opposition to busing springs from a basic underlying prejudiced or intolerant attitudinal predisposition toward blacks, not self-interest or realistic-group conflict motives. The present research argues that realistic group conflict motives do help explain whites' opposition to busing. Two major criticisms of the symbolic racism approach are m...

Evaluation of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice about Self-medication Among Rural and Urban North Indian Population

Background: The practice of self-medication is very common in developing countries like India. Several problems have been reported to be associated with self-medication like wastage of resources, adverse drug reactions and antimicrobial resistance. Not many studies in past have explored the differences regarding the knowledge, attitude and practice of selfmedication in rural and urban populatio...

Rural or urban living and Parkinson's disease.

Although the precise etiology of Parkinson's disease (PD) is as yet unknown, it appears that certain environmental factors are involved. Prior living in a rural area has been implicated as a possible risk factor for PD, particularly in the early onset type. We evaluated the role of previous living conditions in the clinical correlates and outcome characteristics of 118 PD patients. All of them ...

The Rational Basis of Symbolic Racism

Modern political-science research on racial attitudes suggests that white conservatism stems from symbolism, prejudice and socialized resentment. The implication, sometimes made explicit, is that racial conservatism has no rational competitive basis; it does not grow out of the social structure of intergroup competition. Evidence for this claim usually appears in two sorts of analysis: (1) surv...