SOCI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Chronic Poverty, Poverty Trap, Working Poor
8 Apr 2017
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**most of society is either 2 or 3. Institutional > occurs in society"s social institutions (organizations) ex. not getting job because of gender, race, etc. Individual > occurs in the action of an individual. **con ict theory : we focus on individual acts (via media) while ignoring the institutional acts, but the institutional discrimination is way more prevalent & costly to society. State in which racial & ethnic minorities are distinct. Coming minority-majority > before 2050, majority of population will be the minority; whites will fall under maintaining 50% of the population: assimilation : Process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of dominant culture. Miscegenation laws > racist laws forbidding mixing of blood /interracial marriages; unconstitutional until late 1960s: segregation : Physical & social segregation of categories of people. Residential segregation > tauber (1965) developed a scale using census tracts which measure neighborhood composition (0 = completely mixed ; 100 = completely segregated)
