Four-year-old sheila, an african american, is asked to choose between pictures of white children and black children. according to research regarding racial dissonance, shelia is most likely to have negative feelings toward

"social stratification refers to the way people are ranked and ordered in society. in western societies, stratification is primarily seen and understood as a result of socioeconomic status, which produces a hierarchy in which access to resources, and possession of them, increases from the lower to the upper strata"