Which of the following best describes a field audit?
A. observing racial interactions, between strangers, in public situations
B. sending two otherwise similar, but racially different, subjects into similar situations
C. sending people of the same race, but with significant differences in education or income, into similar situations
D. observing how public institutions, such as banks, treat people of different races and ethnicities
Answer: B
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a. the inequitable treatment of a group resulting from practices or policies that are incorporated into social, political, or economic institutions and that operate independently from the prejudices of individuals b. the process by which a racial or ethnic minority loses its distinctive identity and way of life and becomes absorbed into the dominant group c. an irrational attitude toward certain people based solely on their membership in a particular group d. the view that certain racial or ethnic groups are biologically inferior
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