SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Redlining

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201

Document Summary

The sociological perspective and social facts: (using the sociological imagination to analyze our social world) Ascribed social status ~ gives social statuses; inherited involuntarily; passed onto you. It is a classification system that assign individual and groups to categories that are ranked or hierarchical. Based on social meanings they give to peoples bodies. Patterns reveal an ascribed social status, used to segregate and create wealth inequalities intergenerationally. Restrictive covenants in property deed specifying that only whites could by the. Real estate ethical principles (unethical to racially diversify a white community because it would bring down property values )