COMPARISON OF MEASURES OF SOCIOECONOMIC-STATUS BETWEEN ETHNIC-GROUPS

It has been hypothesized that African Americans report lower scores th an Caucasians on standardized tests of socioeconomic status. College s tudents were asked to report their family's socioeconomic class. In ad dition, the Revised Hollingshead four-factor socioeconomic questionnai re was given. Both groups surveyed, African American and Caucasian, un derestimated their social class, but there were no differences between the groups.