The prevalence of discrimination across racial groups in contemporary America: Results from a nationally representative sample of adults

A large body of social science research is devoted to understanding the causes and correlates of discrimination. Comparatively less effort has been aimed at providing a general prevalence estimate of discrimination using a nationally representative sample. The current study is intended to offer such...

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Autores principales: Boutwell, Brian B., Nedelec, Joseph L., Winegard, Bo, Shackelford, Todd, Beaver, Kevin M., Vaughn, Michael, Barnes, J. C., Wright, John P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5570361/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28837680
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183356
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author Boutwell, Brian B.
Nedelec, Joseph L.
Winegard, Bo
Shackelford, Todd
Beaver, Kevin M.
Vaughn, Michael
Barnes, J. C.
Wright, John P.
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Nedelec, Joseph L.
Winegard, Bo
Shackelford, Todd
Beaver, Kevin M.
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description A large body of social science research is devoted to understanding the causes and correlates of discrimination. Comparatively less effort has been aimed at providing a general prevalence estimate of discrimination using a nationally representative sample. The current study is intended to offer such an estimate using a large sample of American respondents (N = 14,793) while also exploring perceptions regarding why respondents felt they were discriminated against. The results provide a broad estimate of self-reported discrimination experiences—an event that was only reported by about one-quarter of all sample members—across racial and ethnic categories.
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spelling pubmed-55703612017-09-09 The prevalence of discrimination across racial groups in contemporary America: Results from a nationally representative sample of adults Boutwell, Brian B. Nedelec, Joseph L. Winegard, Bo Shackelford, Todd Beaver, Kevin M. Vaughn, Michael Barnes, J. C. Wright, John P. PLoS One Research Article A large body of social science research is devoted to understanding the causes and correlates of discrimination. Comparatively less effort has been aimed at providing a general prevalence estimate of discrimination using a nationally representative sample. The current study is intended to offer such an estimate using a large sample of American respondents (N = 14,793) while also exploring perceptions regarding why respondents felt they were discriminated against. The results provide a broad estimate of self-reported discrimination experiences—an event that was only reported by about one-quarter of all sample members—across racial and ethnic categories. Public Library of Science 2017-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5570361/ /pubmed/28837680 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183356 Text en © 2017 Boutwell et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Boutwell, Brian B.
Nedelec, Joseph L.
Winegard, Bo
Shackelford, Todd
Beaver, Kevin M.
Vaughn, Michael
Barnes, J. C.
Wright, John P.
The prevalence of discrimination across racial groups in contemporary America: Results from a nationally representative sample of adults
title The prevalence of discrimination across racial groups in contemporary America: Results from a nationally representative sample of adults
title_full The prevalence of discrimination across racial groups in contemporary America: Results from a nationally representative sample of adults
title_fullStr The prevalence of discrimination across racial groups in contemporary America: Results from a nationally representative sample of adults
title_full_unstemmed The prevalence of discrimination across racial groups in contemporary America: Results from a nationally representative sample of adults
title_short The prevalence of discrimination across racial groups in contemporary America: Results from a nationally representative sample of adults
title_sort prevalence of discrimination across racial groups in contemporary america: results from a nationally representative sample of adults
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5570361/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28837680
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183356
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