SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Straight Edge, Convenience Sampling, Casual Sex
9 Dec 2016
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Colored perceptions: racially distinctive names and assessments of skin color _ denia garcia and. Skin color serves as a discriminating factor even among ppl who id with same racial category. Attaching social meanings to perceived physical differences (skin color: stereotypical beliefs affect perceptions of faces, racial categorization is not simply a reflection of physical appearance, our approach. Racially distinctive name -> affects rating someone"s skin color. Skin color chart by l"or al (11 tones: racially ambiguous faces. Pretested images to see if there was significance in white /hispanic -- got 8 f and 5 m that fit: racially unambiguous names. Find names unambiguously associated w/hispanic background but not strongly associated w/class ---> proved impossible. Selected 20 most racially distinctive names: randomization and descriptive statistics, results. 2,783 unique ratings for hispanic names; 2,817 for non-hispanic: high variance in skin color ratings across subjects, effect of a distinctively hispanic name.
