The articulation of racism and homophobia in the values of the European population
Abstract
Social research has identified racism and homophobia as two of the great challenges for contemporary societies. The syndrome of group focused enmity (SGE) and homonationalism represent two apparently opposite concepts in understanding the relationship between racism and homophobia. In this article we analyse this relationship considering the values of the population of Austria, France, Spain, and the Netherlands, based on data from the European Values Study 2017. We use the method of structural and articulated typology, with analysis of correspondences and classification analysis. Our results lead us to partially confirm the adequacy of both SEG and homonationalism to explain the relationship between racism and homophobia. On the one hand, racism was higher than homophobia in all groups. On the other hand, we obtained a moderately racist and slightly homophobic group, another racist and homophobic group and only in a very minority group tendencies towards a genuinely inclusive society were visualized.
Keywords
Racism, Homophobia, Homonationalism, Group-Focused EnmityReferences
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