Tolerance of practices by Muslim actors: an integrative social-developmental perspective.
Using social-cognitive domain theory and social identity theory, tolerance judgments of practices by Muslim actors among Dutch adolescents (12-17) were investigated. The findings for Study 1 (N=180) demonstrated that participants evaluated 4 practices using different types of reasons: personal, social-conventional, and moral. In Study 2 (N=970), participants were more tolerant of acts considered to be a personal issue than of acts that pertained to moral issues (social-conventional acts were in the middle). Furthermore, participants were more tolerant of the particular practices than of campaigns for public support of co-Muslims for these practices. Level of education, in-group identification, and multiculturalism had much weaker effects in the moral than in the other domains. Age was negatively related to tolerance.
Gieling
Maike
M
Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 2, Utrecht, Netherlands. m.gieling@uu.nl
Thijs
Jochem
J
Verkuyten
Maykel
M
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007514:Islam; D008297:Male; D009014:Morals; D009426:Netherlands; D011287:Prejudice; D012933:Social Identification