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Record W4411396707 · doi:10.1111/socf.70000

Who Sees Race as a Choice?

2025· article· en· W4411396707 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Raj Ghoshal

Bibliographic record

VenueSociological Forum · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSocial and Intergroup Psychology
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersElon University
KeywordsRace (biology)Quarter (Canadian coin)Voluntarism (philosophy)Identity (music)SociologyIdentification (biology)Social psychologyGender studiesPsychologyGeographyEpistemology

Abstract

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ABSTRACT Due to shifting understandings of race and identity, the number of people who see one's race as rooted fully or partly in self‐identification, rather than solely in ancestry or social appraisals, may be on the rise. This study uses a survey of over 1100 Americans to map the prevalence and distribution of “racial voluntarism”—that is, the view that a person's race is up to that person. I find that support for racial voluntarism is modest, but not trivial: about a quarter of Americans support it, and another quarter are neutral. People who see their race as hard for others to assess, those who report uncertainty about their own multiraciality, and dark‐skinned individuals are more likely than others to think of race as “up to each person.” I also find some interactions between respondents' race, multiraciality, and skin tone. Findings are mostly consistent with racial contestation perspectives that highlight the threats that contestation poses to identity and status. I consider the implications of these patterns.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.014
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.030

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.014
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.005
Scholarly communication0.0050.004
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.407
Teacher spread0.380 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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