{"id":406,"date":"2008-12-10T07:58:05","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T13:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=406"},"modified":"2008-12-09T08:02:19","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T14:02:19","slug":"race-as-a-changeable-marker-of-social-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2008\/12\/10\/race-as-a-changeable-marker-of-social-status\/","title":{"rendered":"race as a &#8216;changeable marker of social status&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2008-12-08-race-identity_N.htm\">USA Today<\/a> reports on a new study which suggests that race is a &#8216;changeable marker of social status.&#8217;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">The data collected between 1979 and 2002 and analyzed by sociologists at universities in California and Oregon show change over time in both racial self-identification and the way people perceive the racial identity of others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">&#8220;There is much less &#8216;agreement&#8217; about what race a person is than is commonly thought,&#8221; says co-author Aliya Saperstein, a sociologist at the University of Oregon-Eugene, &#8220;Fluctuations in both self-identification and how one is perceived by others happen more often than they would or should if race is something obvious or unambiguous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">And that leads to an even more striking result: Those who are unemployed, incarcerated or in poverty are more likely to be classified and self-identify as black than white, regardless of past identifications. In about 20% of the 12,686 respondents, at least one change was noted in an interviewer&#8217;s perception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">The study found that setbacks in social status made it more likely that someone would be seen as black.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2008-12-08-race-identity_N.htm\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today reports on a new study which suggests that race is a &#8216;changeable marker of social status.&#8217; The data collected between 1979 and 2002 and analyzed by sociologists at universities in California and Oregon show change over time in both racial self-identification and the way people perceive the racial identity of others. &#8220;There is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[29,39112,39111],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-class","tag-culture","tag-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}