SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Acculturation, Racial Integrity Act Of 1924, Endogamy

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Thomas E Macias

Document Summary

Vermont becomes the first state legalize civil unions in 2000, and then the first to legislate same-sex marriage in 2009. Defense of marriage act (doma) 1996: states do not have to recognize gay marriage from other states, strong pushback from the federal level. Doma has barred same-sex couples from federal benefits until ruled unconstitutional in. Obergefell vs. hodges, 2015: state level bans of same-sex marriage are unconstitutional. The (cid:862)(cid:374)or(cid:373)alizatio(cid:374)(cid:863) of gay and lesbian families: more comfortable with this today than 20 years ago, change in social norms. O(cid:448)ertur(cid:374)ed virgi(cid:374)ia"s (cid:862)racial i(cid:374)tegrit(cid:455) act(cid:863), a(cid:374)d others like it i(cid:374) 15 other states. Shifts in people marrying outside their racial categories. Native americans marry the most outside of their group: over 80% of native americans marry someone who is not native american. Next highest level is among asian americans: about 45% of marriages. Then hispanics (about 45%), then blacks (28%), then whites (16%) Not as an end in and of itself.