Ethnic Relations in Rental Housing: A Social Psychological Approach

Type of resource
Authors/collaborators
Title
Ethnic Relations in Rental Housing: A Social Psychological Approach
Abstract
The authors conducted interviews with a random sample of 59 French Quebec landlords within a section of Montreal to explore the social psychological bases for discrimination in rental housing. Evidence that Social Identity factors related to the overwhelming preference for in-group tenants was obtained. When landlords were asked to focus on four out-groups (Haitians, Italians, Asiatics, and English Quebecers), factors subsumed under Realistic Conflict theory also contributed strongly to the variation in willingness to rent to some out-groups as opposed to others. Overall, the authors conclude that the results suggest a dissociation model where Social Identity and Realistic Conflict factors operate independently and additively in relations with out-group tenants.
Publication
Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science/Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement
Volume
Vol. 21
Issue
no. 2
Pages
121-131
Date
April 1989
Language
en
Citation
Hilton, Anthony, Louise Potvin, and Itesh Sachdev. “Ethnic Relations in Rental Housing: A Social Psychological Approach.” Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science/Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement Vol. 21, no. 2 (April 1989): 121–131.
Find in a library
Permalink