Article Critique Psychology PAPER Homework

Racial Discrimination

Final Project Milestone Two: Article Critique

Johnathen Houston

PSY-216-Q1822

Dr. Liza Smith

10/25/15

Objective Analysis

The article that is well about racism has been well represented in the article’s content. The title that is about the gender and socio-economic differences in the experiences of African Americans is well elaborated in the article. This is because, within the article, the experiment that was done was major to try and find out about how men and women are mistreated on the different socioeconomic environment (Adler, 2000).

Within the introduction, the purpose that is basing on the health effects of racism is well elaborated. Considering the be an exploration on the method to which the investigation will be done through different socioeconomic position such as education, financial and employment status, the prediction of the title is captured well in the introduction of the article.

The discussion is relevant. It is relevant in essence that, it is that we can understand to which discriminations done in the offices that most of the officers operate. The discussion is further relevant given the fact statistical methods have been sued to do the experiment (Barg, 2005).Using the exact figure makes not only a thorough but an actual result to be relied upon.

Using a sample size of 144 people to me is underemphasizing of the discrimination in the states. Given the number of people living in the US are many, a better number of participants would have been used. The issue of the socio-emotional prospect is less emphasized. It should have been made so clear that, in the United States and the United Kingdom, it is in this set ups that moist of the discrimination occur. Limiting the age made the age made the experiment a little bit less factual as the result should have focused more on a range of age like, for instance, the socioeconomic discrimination on young people is not much pronounced as that for the aged people who are workplaces. New York City only should not have been the only place to make the data valid.

The authors’ statements are very clear. It is clear in the sense that, most of the assumptions made are what happens exactly in the field. It is ambiguous for the data to claim that the modest size could have been used which could not limit the sample size. It is of the essence to not that, in an analysis, depending on the population, is a small size can be very useful in making an assumption.

The authors want to validate different assumption his research. First of all, there is an assumption that Africans are a threat to security and as a form of discrimination; they must be frisked very well as in the care of Joan. The author assumes that in most of the cases of racism, men are the target of racism, and they are the ones who are affected more. The third assumption by the author is that the socioeconomic status of the society is not consistent and is subjects of racism. The assumption further is based on the fact that, the people working in higher ranks have different extending of racism than those working in the lower.

The article by the authors is very is very objective. It is very objective in the sense that, they are trying to find the extent of racism in different demographic societies. It is further relevant as it not based on one form of test, but a varied extend given the fact that it is investigating on everyday racism and lifetime racism.

Subjective Analysis

I chose the article to critique given the fact that, it is a common thing happening in our societies. I wanted to understand the extent to which people are discriminated depending on their race. I chose the article further because of the curiosity stemming from the need to know if men or women are discriminated more on the socioeconomic set up as described by (Bastos, 2010).

The title is well discussed and extensive in content. I liked the fact the article did base on factors of socioeconomic importance. It investigated education, employment status, financial strain and subjective social status (Barg, 2005).I also the fact the results were quite elaborative.For instance, in employment status, the article gave results basing on, whether fully employed, partially employed or unemployment. There were both quantitative and qualitative results that were imperative in making us understand the cause of discrimination. Lastly, it was very decorative to use people’s experiences in the field. One gives an encounter of how he works with little boys, and they make it clear that they don’t like him. The experience makes the content to look real. I didn't like the fact that the figures used were at some point difficult to interpret.

The same experience marks the day to day life. In the USA, the extent of decimation the same. Women are at some point give grace in the description. According to (Barg, 2005), it is applicable to workplaces, schools, and social gathering. People are mistreated because of their skin coloring socio-economic setup, some the low-class people are mistreated more.

References

Adler, N. (2000). The relationship between Subjective Social Status with Psychological and Physiological Functioning. Health Psychology, pp. 19, 586-592.

Barg, F. &. (2005). An anthropological Perspective on Urban Health.Population, Practices and Methods. New York: Springer.

Bastos, J. (2010). Racial Discrimination and health.A systematic review of scales with a focus on their psychometric properties. Social Sciences and Medicine, pp. 1091-1099.