RT Article
T1 Social Class also Matters: The Effects of Social Class, Ethnicity, and their Interaction on Prejudice and Discrimination Toward Roma
JF Race and social problems
VO 15
IS 3
SP 262
OP 276
A1 Urbiola, Ana
A2 Navas, Marisol
A2 Carmona, Cristina
A2 Willis, Guillermo B.
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1853379565
AB One of the difficulties in social research has been to disentangle the effects of race/ethnicity from social class. In two experimental studies with samples of both students and general population (total N = 416), we analyzed the effect of social class, ethnicity and their interaction on prejudice and discrimination using experimental methods. Social class (High vs. Low) and ethnic group (Roma vs. Non-Roma) were manipulated through a cover story. Study 1 showed a main effect of social class, not of ethnicity, on prejudice and discrimination. In Study 2 the effect of social class was replicated, and the interaction effect was also significant for all dependent variables. Results show that negative effects of social class are higher among Roma than non-Roma. Pooled analyses corroborated these findings. Social class is a predictive factor, especially in interaction with ethnicity and should be considered for predicting and reducing prejudiced attitudes and intergroup behaviors fostering inequality.
K1 Roma
K1 Prejudice
K1 Ethnicity
K1 Social Class
DO 10.1007/s12552-022-09368-1