TY - JOUR
T1 - Toward a sociology of racial conceptualization for the 21 st century
AU - Morning, Ann
N1 - Funding Information:
I thank Elizabeth M. Armstrong, Troy Duster, Michèle Lamont, François Nielsen, Marta Tienda, Robert Wuthnow and an anonymous reviewer for thoughtful comments on earlier versions of this work. I am grateful to the National Science Foundation’s Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science and Technology program for funding this research through Dissertation Improvement Grant SES-0135507, and to Princeton University’s Program in African American Studies for a Dissertation Research Grant. Direct correspondence to Ann Morning, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, New York University, 295 Lafayette St., Room 4118, New York, NY 10012. Tel: (212) 992-9569. Fax: (212) 995-4140. E-mail: [email protected].
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Despite their longstanding interest in race, American sociologists have conducted little empirical research on sociodemographic patterns or longitudinal trends in "racial conceptualization" - that is, notions of what race is, how races differ, and the origins of race. This article outlines key empirical, methodological and theoretical considerations for a research agenda on racial conceptualization. Drawing on in-depth interviews with more than 50 college students, I describe the variety of race concepts among respondents, illustrate the importance of using multiple measures of conceptualization, and demonstrate the malleability of conceptualization, linking it to demographic context and thereby raising the question of its future evolution in the changing United States of the 21 st century.
AB - Despite their longstanding interest in race, American sociologists have conducted little empirical research on sociodemographic patterns or longitudinal trends in "racial conceptualization" - that is, notions of what race is, how races differ, and the origins of race. This article outlines key empirical, methodological and theoretical considerations for a research agenda on racial conceptualization. Drawing on in-depth interviews with more than 50 college students, I describe the variety of race concepts among respondents, illustrate the importance of using multiple measures of conceptualization, and demonstrate the malleability of conceptualization, linking it to demographic context and thereby raising the question of its future evolution in the changing United States of the 21 st century.
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U2 - 10.1353/sof.0.0169
DO - 10.1353/sof.0.0169
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:67651227398
SN - 0037-7732
VL - 87
SP - 1167
EP - 1192
JO - Social Forces
JF - Social Forces
IS - 3
ER -