Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- 1 Introduction to the second edition
- 2 Prejudiced people are not the only racists in America
- 3 From theory to research and back again – a methodological discussion
- 4 “I favor anything that doesn't affect me personally.”
- 5 “The trouble is all this suspicion between us.”
- 6 “If I could do it, why can't they do it?”
- 7 “Convincing people that this is a racist country is like selling soap – if agitators say it enough times people will believe it.”
- 8 “There wouldn't be any problems if people's heads were in the right place.”
- 9 Toward a sociology of white racism
- Epilogue: From Bensonhurst to Berkeley
- Appendix: Interview guide
- References
- Index
Appendix: Interview guide
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- 1 Introduction to the second edition
- 2 Prejudiced people are not the only racists in America
- 3 From theory to research and back again – a methodological discussion
- 4 “I favor anything that doesn't affect me personally.”
- 5 “The trouble is all this suspicion between us.”
- 6 “If I could do it, why can't they do it?”
- 7 “Convincing people that this is a racist country is like selling soap – if agitators say it enough times people will believe it.”
- 8 “There wouldn't be any problems if people's heads were in the right place.”
- 9 Toward a sociology of white racism
- Epilogue: From Bensonhurst to Berkeley
- Appendix: Interview guide
- References
- Index
Summary
Part One. General questions.
A Background
1 Age
2 Birthplace
3 Current job or source of income
4 Marital Status
B Work
1 Can you tell me the most important jobs you've had?
2 What would be the ideal way to make that kind of living?
3 Is there any kind of work that you could get that you'd refuse to take? What kinds?
4 Does a man need the right kind of work to really be a man? a What kind of job would make you feel most like a man? b Least like a man?
5 How do you get along with your fellow workers? With your supervisors?
C The family (male-female relations)
1 What was your family like? How did people get along? Occupations of mother and father? What member of your family influenced you the most when you were growing up?
2 What adult – family member or outside – did you admire the most when you were growing up?
3 What do you think most women expect from a man?
4 What do you expect from the women you go with?
5 Is it easier for men to get along with women or with other men? (How about for yourself?)
6 Do you think women have too much power?
7 Would you say most of the women you know help build a man up or do you think they let him down?
8 How does a real man treat a woman?
9 What's the best way to get along with a woman?
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- Portraits of White Racism , pp. 248 - 253Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993