SOC 12 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Matriarchy, Male Unemployment
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Marriage: disadvantaged minority groups less likely to participate in institution. The negro family: the case for national action. Rise in single mother families was not due to a lack of jobs but due to due to a destructive vein that could be traced back from jim crow discrimination and slavery. Black family as a "tangle of pathology" Matriarchy reversed roles of husbands and wives. People thought that he was blaming the victim. Blaming blacks of having a high rate of singlehood. Thought it was an attempt to divert responsibility for poverty from social structural factors. Difficulty of finding jobs doesn"t matter it"s your fault. Was influential on the war on poverty. Set of social programs designed by the johnson administration designed to help lift people out of poverty. He wrote to the president and argued that: Black men would be systematically alienated as their roles as fathers. A lack of job would cause divorce.
