emory s. bogardus tried to evaluate attitude through the social distance scale.
emory s. bogardus tried to evaluate attitude through the social distance scale.
who tried to evaluate attitude through the social distance scale?
emory s. bogardus
bogardus social distance scale









































the bogardus social distance scale is a psychological testing scale created by emory s. bogardus to empirically measure people's willingness to participate in social contacts of varying degrees of closeness with members of diverse social groups, such as racial and ethnic groups.









































the scale asks people the extent to which they would be accepting of each group (a score of 1.00 for a group is taken to indicate no social distance):









































bullet::::- as close relatives by marriage ("i.e.", as the legal spouse of a close relative) (score 1.00)









































bullet::::- as my close personal friends (2.00)
bogardus social distance scale
bullet::::1. affective social distance: one widespread conception of social distance focuses on affectivity. according to this approach, social distance is associated with affective distance, i.e. how much sympathy the members of a group feel for another group. emory bogardus, the creator of "bogardus social distance scale" was typically basing his scale on this subjective-affective conception of social distance: "[i]n social distance studies the center of attention is on the feeling reactions of persons toward other persons and toward groups of people."
social distance