SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture : Lecture 44 - March 31st.docx
3 Apr 2014
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3) du boi"s study: empirical data, du bois found evidence that blacks in philadelphia had steadily improved their lives after they were given freedom (about a hundred years before blacks in the south, du bois noted that the blacks had started churches, schools, small businesses, etc while also entering the trades of professions (all of which countered ideas about the inferiority of blacks, however, du bois also found evidence of various problems experienced by blacks e. g. , unemployment, poverty, crime, excessive alcohol use, gambling, etc, whites stereotyped blacks as being associated with these problems, but du bois discovered that only a relatively small number of blacks experienced these problems, causal factors, du bois argued that the problems experienced by some blacks stemmed from the organization of society rather than racial inferiority, he identified three casual factors that helped to explain the problems:
