Date of Award
2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
Sociology
First Advisor
Andrew Lindner
Abstract
Evaluating medical professionals implicit racial and gender biases compared to other professions provides a window into medical professionals’ covertly biased behaviors. I examine whether or not medical professionals, compared to other professions, are more likely to hold predisposed racial and gender biases. Analysis of 2000 to 2014 General Social Survey Data (N=4,772) found the framework of implicitly biased behavior against Black and female- identifying individuals held by medical professionals to be faulty. The results from the multivariate regression revealed the opposite of my hypothesis, regarding sexist (pro-natal) attitudes, medical professionals were less likely than other professions to exhibit sexist attitudes. The multivariate regression refuted my hypothesis wholly regarding racial antagonism, there was no statistical significance (p< .05). Not aligning with prior research, medical professionals did not appear to hold race and gender based implicit biases. Further research should be done within this field of study, possibly a qualitative comparison of medical professionals implicit biases compared to other professional groups.
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Recommended Citation
Scenti, Adelaide, "Prescribing Biases: Evaluating Race and Gender Biases held by Medical Professionals" (2020). Sociology Senior Seminar Papers. 64.
https://creativematter.skidmore.edu/socio_stu_stu_schol/64