Question

In her interview with Dalton Conley, Devah Pager discusses her field work in Milwaukee and New York, in which she sent out job applicants, both black and white, with half of them pretending to have prison records. Pager found that having a criminal record negatively affected an applicant's ability to be offered a job. In addition, she found that black applicants were far less likely to be called back for an interview than white applicants. This racial disparity in hiring indicates unconscious stereotypes in the minds of the hirers, in addition to the challenge of a criminal record's
A) stigma
B) secondary deviance
C) class solidarity
D) organic solidarity

Answer 1

Answer: Option (A)

Explanation:

Stigma is referred to as or known as the discrimination against or disapproval of, an individual based on the perceivable social standards or characteristics which serves in order to distinguish the individual from the other members of the society. These social stigmas are usually inclined towards the gender, culture, race, health and intelligence.