SOC 134 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Economic Inequality, Conflict Theories, Voting Rights Act Of 1965
21 Mar 2019
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Illegal to discriminate in public accommodations (title ii) Any state or institution that gets federal funding may not discriminate on the basis of race or else their funds would get cut off. Illegal to discriminate in employment on the basis of race. Included the statistical trigger: automatically put the southern states in defiance of the law (they didn"t trust the south) Micromanaged the south (if there were any changes, they had to go through the court first) Lead to voter id laws and closing of poll places in poorer areas. Illegal to discriminate in the sale or rental of housing. Conflict theory: views society as a struggle over power and resources between dominant and subordinate groups. Capitalism: the driving force of economic inequality; defined by constant struggle over employment, wages, income, wealth, etc. Economic elites have long exploited race/ethnic divisions as a way of further dividing the working class. Economic inequality has always been strongly correlated with race/ethnicity.
