초등학생들의 인종에 대한 태도가 다문화적 가치에 미치는 영향

Abstract

This study was conducted on 383 sixth graders in Seoul to examine influences attitudes toward race have on multicultural values. Humans are classified into three races according to their skin colors: black, white, and yellow. Attitudes toward each race were scrutinized in terms of stereotype, emotion, and sense of social distance; and in terms of gender, residential district, and overseas trip experience of students. Then influences were analyzed that these factors, stereotype, and emotion have on sense of social distance; and then effects were analyzed that sense of social distance has on multicultural values. What follows is a brief summary of the study. Firstly, examined in attitudes toward race, students expressed their preference for a certain race in terms of stereotype, emotion, and sense of social distance. Consequently, this study found out that there are some negative stereotypes and emotional prejudices based on skin colors. Secondly, comparing attitudes toward race according to socio-demographic factors, this study discovered that such factors as residential district and overseas trip experience cause an effect on the attitudes. While students in Nowon-gu have more positive stereotypes and emotions toward blacks, students in Jungnang-gu do more negative emotions toward them. In sense of social distance, students in Jung-gu, expressing relatively good feeling toward all races, have positive emotions regardless of race. Thirdly, the effects socio-demographic factors, stereotype, and emotion have on sense of social distance are differentiated by race: in case of yellows and whites, overseas trip experience and emotion have influences on the sense; and in case of blacks, residential district, stereotype, and emotion do. And lastly, after examining the effects that attitudes toward race have on multicultural values, this study discovered that there is a significant correlation between sense of social distance, rather than stereotype and emotion, and multicultural values; and that effects that sense of social distance toward race has on multicultural values are greatest in whites, then yellows, and finally blacks.