How Social Cognition Mechanisms Shape Race and Class Categorizations
摘要
Social cognition processes of categorization are fundamental to social inequality. Prior work has shown how people come to categorize others based on various cues and contextual information, but little research has examined how categorization decisions depend on the unique combinations of social categories that are signaled. In this chapter, I ask how the alignment of categorization decisions with signaled categories is patterned across different combinations of race and class categories, demonstrating how combinations of multiple category cues and the relation between these categories shape cognition processes of recall and inference.