What is a finding of the Penner and Saperstein (2008) study about racial classification discussed in lecture?Hispanic men who were born to parents in the top 1% of the income distribution were more likely to drop in social class than Black men from the top 1%.Participants were more likely to re-classify themselves as white if they had not been previously incarcerated.Employers were more likely to classify resumes as coming from white men if they had a criminal record.Racial majorities experience a different form of Stereotype Threat.

How does social class relate to race, ethnicity, gender, and age in the United States today?Group of answer choicesRace and ethnicity are more important than any other factor in determining social class.These multiple dimensions of status and inequality intersect to shape who we are and how we live.These other variables matter for members of the upper class but not for members of the middle or lower classes.These variables matter for members of the lower class but not for members of the upper or middle class.

Which situations are examples of race/ethnicity stereotyping?Multiple select question.Tyrus is accepted into an Ivy League college on a scholarship available to Black students only.When Patrick behaves foolishly at an office party, his manager comments that he should have known better than to hire a "drunken Irishman."During a staff meeting, Julius is asked to present the "Black perspective" on the issues.When Marco makes a mistake, his co-workers sometimes excuse it because "Hispanics don't have experience with these things."

Labeling theory assumes that there is a tendency to put negative labels on lower-class individuals or minorities as offenders significantly more often that on middle- or upper-class white people.TrueFalseQuestion 27

Stereotype threat, according to Claude Steele, is the _____.Multiple choice question.tendency of minority group members to conform to negative stereotypes in an academic settingpossibility of minority group members confronting members of other groups about their stereotypestendency of people to achieve better performance on tests when exposed to negative stereotypes about the other social grouptendency of individuals to discriminate against minorities

What do recent theorists like Tomás Almaguer argue that differs from the belief that racism is a product of class differences?Group of answer choicesRacist beliefs can become part of economic life.Race and class have nothing in common.Many minority groups benefit from government policies, and it is actually whites who are discriminated against.There are very few economic differences between racial groups.