CRJU 385 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Economic Inequality, Residential Segregation In The United States, Economic Capital
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Chapter 3: chapter goals, examine structure of american society, analyze relationship of social structure to crime, two possible explanations, cj system discrimination, american structural inequalities, extent of racial & ethnic inequality. Hurricane katrina august 2005: majority of stranded people were african american, poor, conditions provided by the state for those who could not leave were deplorable. Institutionalized populations: minorities = disproportionate representation, unemployment and immigration, the pew hispanic center found that between march 2007 and march 2009, the number of unauthorized immigrants entering the u. s. was only one-third what it had been in. 2000-2005: understanding culture and poverty, wages consider to decrease within working-class levels. Inability to participate in school activities, because of poverty. Inequality & social reform: poverty paradox , continuation of poverty cycle in the america despite efforts to address such poverty, civil rights movement fought to achieve, equal rights, economic empowerment, access to education, less segregation.
