Formally, racial categories appeared to be biological which contrast with the view of the current generation that impact the social status of the society. The ethical race connections that exist among people appear to be mutually exclusive. However, the situation may be overlapping without notice. This brings in the idea of invisibility of race within the community. People tend to assume the existence of race as an inferior fact yet it exists as a major problem within the community.
Prejudice is when an individual is judged by aspects which do not relate to them at all. Prejudice is the main trouble of social inequality, in society when a family gains wealth, another will be made poor. And when a group gains power, another group is made below that power. The link between prejudice and stereotype is very similar, when prejudice occurs, stereotyping maybe also becomes a result of it and then this becomes discrimination. When it comes to prejudice many situations are caused by stereotypes.
How do George and Lennie represent the theme of “outsiders”? The word “outsiders” means when someone or something doesn’t belong in a particular place or job. The American society developed outsiders in the 1930’s because of how women; black people and anyone who they thought was different from them were out casted from the “American white society”. The women in America were treated as a house wife and the men use to just keep them locked away; they were just treated like an ornament not a human. In the 1930’s White people were a higher class or more superior than the Black people; they were discriminated against because they were coloured.
If African Americans reject low paying jobs that other immigrants are competing for, they justify the belief that they are less deserving than immigrants. Resentment for this treatment further validates the white belief that African Americans are unworthy, restarting the cycle over again. Gans concludes that it might be a possibility that race could be eventually erased through interracial marriage, but he also points out that Americans may come up with a different way to mark levels of social classes. I feel that Gans’ conclusion follows his evidence logically, explaining the reasons why people socially construct different classes, and what might be a possible outcome in the
It is easier to blame the person than it is to blame the society for their failure. Many societies provide inequality for its people, discriminating against minorities and failing to provide enough jobs and opportunities. Several people are trapped into institutional discrimination. Structural conditions of society can be blamed for poverty. Most jobs today, require a College degree.
But in fact, assimilation can be much worse for immigrants’ well-being than it is for native citizens’. It is true that blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans are at the bottom of the social hierarchy while European immigrants seem to assimilate and join white society in social and cultural terms. Even though very few of the immigrants of color can cross the line into whit-ness, most of them are forced to assimilate to a racially divided society in terms of social status. Aviva Chomsky, the author of “Thy Take Our Jobs!” And 20 Other Myths About Immigration, 2007, defines that “in contrast of white immigrants, for people of color assimilation means downward mobility.”(P109) She points out “the relationship between assimilation and downward mobility has been especially noted in studies of school-children.” For instance, Education professor Marcelo Suarez-Orozco has studied Latino adolescents. The study discovers that “the most recent immigrants tended to be the students with the highest aspirations and the strongest belief in the American dream.” “As they became more Americanized, they entered an oppositional inner-city teenage culture that valued money, drugs and reckless behaviors – the opposite of the hopeful and hard-working recent arrivals”(P106).
(of a person of black ancestry in a racially segregated society) to be accepted as white. In this novel there is a stratification of races: White being at the top, followed by Mexican and Asian at the very bottom. Because white people are considered superior they enjoy White Privilege. ” Kendall Clark states that White Privilege is “A right, advantage, or immunity granted to or enjoyed by white persons beyond the common advantage of all others; an exemption in many particular cases from certain burdens or liabilities”(1). In American Son by Brian Ascalon Roley Tomas and Gabe, who are two half Filipino-half German brothers, try to pass as different ethnicities than their own: Tomas as Mexican and Gabe as White; they do this is because they are ashamed of being Asian and believe that being White or Mexican is superior and empowering.
We live in a society in which your race can help determine what type of sentence you will be issued if ever incarcerated. For instance, whites are more likely to get the minimum sentence for a crime as opposed to a black person. In fact, some people allege that the American criminal justice system is racist. Moving on, gender plays a big part in the administration of justice. The treatment in the criminal justice system varies from male to female.
She also suggested that his research was flawed because his research participants were Caucasian males that were well off, and therefore could not present an accurate theory with such limitations on his research. Gilligan suggested that moral development in females goes from selfish, to social morality, and then to principled morality. Her own theory suggests that Kohlberg's theories are gender biased, because he determined that a man's moral judgment rates higher than that of women (Muus, 1988). While men organize their relationships according to hierarchy, women's relationships are based on "interpersonal connectedness, care, sensitivity, and responsibility to people" (Muus, 1988). She theorized that women, because of their caring nature will wait to pass judgment because they understand the complex nature of relationships more than men, who tend to think in a more linear fashion.
Social inequality and social stratification, according to this view, lead to a meritocracy based on ability. Conflict theorists, on the other hand, view inequality as resulting from groups with power dominating less powerful groups. They believe that social inequality prevents and hinders societal progress as those in power repress the powerless people in order to maintain the status quo. Positions are important so long as those in power consider them to be significant. Gender is seen closely related to the roles and behavior assigned to women and men based on their sexual differences.