Predicting intolerance: The impact of parents’ own tolerance vs. social class and religious fundamentalism

Abstract

The impact of parental intolerance, social class, and religious fundamentalism on the level of tolerance of post‐adolescent children is assessed on a sample of 205 mother‐father‐child triads. Social class plays an indirect role, and religious fundamentalism is shown to be the primary mechanism for the intergenerational transmission of intolerance. The concept of intolerance is extended so as to focus on reactions to deviant behavior. There is little evidence of specific sex linkage contrasts. © 1981 by Hemisphere Publishing Corporation.