SOCIOL 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Medicaid, Marginal Cost, Main Source
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People making choices in context where a lot of other people are making choices too. When making choices do the people have the same amount of info as others. Thinking cultural (habits, narratives from the past) Soc behavior thru rational choice theory (people always make logical decisions and choose for highest self-interest) 2 markets where one race within a market = no discrim. Employee vs consumer (consumer refuse to buy a good when discriminated against) Employers have an incentive to end discrimination (hire cheapest labor) (market left alone = no discrimination) Society employers want to be privileged (racism) but then market would not support that (capitalism create racism? (opposite meaning here)) Cannot change mind of privileged (white) so change mind of minorities. Education, have minorities make something of themselves (pull themselves by their bootstraps and not fight jim crow laws booker t. ) Race discrim = preference (racial minorities then feel they cannot raise themselves up and then act irrationally)
