How would sociologists use measurements to calculate prejudice?

You can measure it two ways: (1) attitudes - ask people how they feel about particular people and issues. Like for example: On a scale of 1 to 5, one meaning you completely disagree and five meaning you completely agree, rate your agreement to the following sentence: Some ethnic groups are inherently better than others. (2) behaviors - where you observe the behaviors of others to determine if prejudice is present. For example, a black woman who is a researcher disguises herself and tries to buy a house in a white neighborhood...will real estate agents listen to her request, or try to stear her into another neighborhood? In the case of prejudice and discrimination we can usually tell more from behaviors because what people say and how they act are often two different things. There is a famous study (from a long time ago) where the researcher called up various hotels and asked if they allow minorities to get a room. Many of the hotel managers said yes. Then the researcher acted like a guest and went to the hotel to try to get a room...many of the hotels who claimed they allowed minorities to stay actually turned away the minorities who asked for a room.

1. Questions. A list that cover a multitude of life experience with races, cultures outside your own. 2. They may be able to draw some statistics from the tests. I don't know what the actual acceptable number of participants is to represent an accurate cross-section of society. 3. If individual results were provided, it would help everyone learn were they need more understanding. 4. Below is a BBC article, a test, and a site with links about racism. Hope it helps. Warm regards.