Religious Affiliation and Hiring Discrimination in the American South: A Field Experiment
Religious Affiliation and Hiring Discrimination in the American South: A Field Experiment
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美国南部的宗教信仰和雇佣歧视：实地实验
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2014
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Allen Hyde
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Michael E. Wallace;B. Wright;Allen Hyde
这篇文章描述了一个实地实验，在这个实验中，我们向整个美国南部的招聘广告发送了虚构的简历S。我们随机更改了S的简历，以表明其隶属于七个宗教团体中的一个或一个对照组。我们发现，表达宗教身份的申请者收到雇主回复的可能性降低了26%。一般来说，穆斯林、异教徒和无神论者受到雇主的歧视程度最高，虚构的宗教团体和天主教徒受到中等程度的歧视，福音派基督徒很少受到歧视，犹太人没有受到明显的歧视。我们还发现，有证据表明，在雇主的回应中，犹太人可能比其他宗教团体受到了优待。这一结果与植根于世俗化理论和文化厌恶理论的宗教歧视模型最为吻合。我们简要讨论了我们的发现对更有力的社会偏见和歧视理论的启示。
This article describes a field experiment in which we sent fictitious résumés to advertised job openings throughout the American South. We randomly altered the résumés to indicate affiliation in one of seven religious groups or a control group. We found that applicants who expressed a religious identity were 26 percent less likely to receive a response from employers. In general, Muslims, pagans, and atheists suffered the highest levels of discriminatory treatment from employers, a fictitious religious group and Catholics experienced moderate levels, evangelical Christians encountered little, and Jews received no discernible discrimination. We also found evidence suggesting the possibility that Jews received preferential treatment over other religious groups in employer responses. The results fit best with models of religious discrimination rooted in secularization theory and cultural distaste theory. We briefly discuss what our findings suggest for a more robust theory of prejudice and discrimination in society.