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"Define culture. Yes, its more difficult. So what? "

So if you've got a limited research budget, it matters. Census and other data has info on "race" and not on meaningful cultural variables, aside from "hispanic". And if you are asking in your own survey - what are you going to do, ask "do you participate in the culture that originated among slaves in the American South" or are you going to ask "Are you black?"

Clearly race is a cultural construct, and the census race categories dont map to any particular pure "race". That said, they are useful in analyzing and predicting behavior, and spending more than half your research budget to avoid use of them, or simply relabeling them, is silly (and if you are collecting your own data, and ask someone what culture they are, and give white, black, asian, etc as choices, you will likely simply confuse the respondents"

by SocSciDatauser on Apr 11, 2012 1:48 pm • link • report

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