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The Cultural Frameworks of Prejudice: Reputational Images and the Postwar Disjuncture of Jews and Communism

Beim, Aaron, Fine, Gary Alan·2007·The Sociological Quarterly
DOI 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2007.00082.x
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Responses to prominent reputations provide a framework for understanding the growth and decline of group prejudice. In the 1930s, the connection between American Jews and Communism was both an empirical and cognitive reality—Jews constituted a significant portion of the American Communist Party and many Americans stereotyped them as such. However, by mid-century, the perceptual linkage between Jew and Communist had largely vanished. We explain the change in public attitudes by treating prejudice as a cultural framework for collective memory. Building on CitationBlumer (1958) and the empirical conclusions of other prominent sociologists of the period, we argue that group prejudice depends on a group's distinctiveness, its perceived moral imbalance, and the discursive utility of attacks. When components of this three-part frame weaken, prejudice dissipates. Specifically, we claim that the specificity of reputations serves as a concrete stand-in for more diffuse images of social groups. While group position is not only the result of the reputation of prominent figures, the public images of these figures help to shape prejudice and its decline. As an empirical case, we examine the cultural framework for interpreting the linkage of American Jews and Communism in the late 1940s and early 1950s through the reputations of Alger Hiss, Roy Cohn, and Adolf Hitler. Presented by reputational entrepreneurs, these images emphasize American Communists who were decidedly non-Jewish, underline…

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Authors
Beim, A., & Fine, G. A.
Affiliations
Northwestern University (US)
Corresponding author
Fine, Gary Alan
ORCID
Fine, Gary Alan
Venue
The Sociological Quarterly
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2007-08-01
Volume
48
Issue
3
Pages
373-397
ISSN
  • 0038-0253 (ISSN-L)
  • 1533-8525
DOI
10.1111/j.1533-8525.2007.00082.x
OpenAlex
W2052165079
Cited by
12
References
1
Citations by year
2020: 1 · 2019: 3 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1
FWCI
3.37
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1 (tdm, 2953 d)
Locations
Sociological Quarterly (publishedVersion)
Funders
Center for Jewish History
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Jewish Identity and Society
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
Keywords
American Jews, communism, collective memory, group distinctiveness, Alger Hiss, Adolf Hitler, antisemitism, anti-communism, postwar United States, Communist Party of the United States

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