SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Arab Americans, Color Adjustment, Police Brutality

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: basham

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Levels of discriminations: derogation stereotyping, language, culture, popular depictions, tv(color adjustment, denial exclusion, segregation, violence kkk, lynching, gay-bashing, rape. American (tryvon marin, ferguson, eric garner, tamir rice, eric harris, etc. : rising racial and ethnic tensions on college campus (including ucs) This posture involves a willingness in hiring, promotion, and pay decisions to treat the races and the sexes alike. This stance fails to recognize that past discrimination leaves many prospective employees unaware of or unprepared for present opportunities: pure affirmative action. This posture involves a concerted effort to enlarge the pool of applicants so that no one is excluded because of past or present discrimination. At the point of decision to hire or promote, however, the company selects the most qualified applicant without regard to sex or race: affirmative action with preferential hiring. Here, the company not only enlarges the labor pool but systematically favors minorities and women in the actual decisions as well.