SOC-S 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cultural Capital, Southwest Airlines, Racial Steering
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Racial discrimination in buying or renting a house. Audit study (e. g. ross and turner 2005) shows. Us department of housing and urban development (hud) Based on 4600 paired tests across 20 major metropolitan areas (2000) African americans and hispanics face discrimination: rental, sales, racial steering, financing. Blacks experience adverse treatment in one in five housing searches. Hispanics experience adverse treatment in one in four housing searches (both rental and sales) Racial segregation is a core problem to understand urban poverty. Created and reinforced by racial discrimination (e. g. , discrimination in housing markets) Maes inner-city more susceptible to economic restructuring. Implications of each perspective for solution to racial inequality. Employees fit with each other and the culture is hiring priority. At southwest, hiring is a religious experience. Look for energetic employees: luv and fun . Willingness to assure employee fit through active use of 1 year property employment periods.
