SOC-4440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Structural Inequality, Contact Hypothesis, School Choice
24 Dec 2015
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Parents involved in community schools v. seattle and meredith v. Jefferson county (2007: districts voluntarily desegregated schools, not under court order, were taken to court and cases consolidated. Parents involved educated in a diverse environment. Fosters better race relations later in life. Segregation results in institutional discrimination: structural inequality, social scientists know that people learn more when theyre. When inequality is perpetuated from one generation to the next. Need policy to eliminate structural inequality: neighborhoods, churches, etc still segregated, diversity rationale. Increased diversity means a healthier society: people who are in desegregated schools are more likely to. Perpetuation theory work in more diverse fields. Contact hypothesis: it is not just important for kids to sit in the same room together. Despite the wealth of sociological research, schools cannot assign students based on individual race: they made some suggestions: (cid:1) (cid:1) Federal policies appear to go against what the research argues.
