Analyze a Sociological Issue

As a whole, minorities from all religions, races, and sexualities have reached numerous high points in life. These high points have resulted in the establishment and entitlement to minorities having the same rights as whites. However, the right of blacks as in being equal is always up for debate. Statistics show and prove that for every dollar a white household brings in, a black household only brings in 61 cents. Some people like to say that the white household is more skilled or has a higher education, however, this is not the case in most situations. These facts can be accurately traced back to the issue of discrimination against blacks. Most people agree that this type of discrimination is

I will be applying the three major sociological perspectives, which include functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism to the experiences of Hispanic Americans. No ethnic group attracts more public attention than the Hispanic people do due to their large numbers, their residential clustering, and bilingual programs and signs associated with them making them a recognizable ethnic group. Hispanic people who live in poverty or the small number involved in gangs, drugs, or other criminal activity get more attention and generate negative stereotypes, but most of them live as members of the middle class.

The United States is a multiracial society that has had many issues on racial disparity. The major ethics categories in the United States are Asians, African-Americans, Caucasians, Hispanic and Native Americans. Racism, a social problem in the United States since the founding of the country, is a belief that all people in that specific category has a certain characteristic. It distinguishes a race being inferior or superior to another. Historically, the white majority has always gotten better treatment than the other races. Out of all the other ethnic groups, “white has singled out of getting unequal treatment in the areas of housing, education, employment and criminal justice” (Racial Disparities). The Justice System is very well racially disperse because, African Americans as well as Hispanics, do not get the equal protection or social benefit from the government.

Justice is a concept that takes into account the inalienable rights of all individuals to equal protection before and under the law regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, religious belief, age, disability or income. The justice system of the United States was founded on the principles that everyone has the right to receive a fair trial with equal representation. Racial disparity exist whenever there is a vast disparity between the proportion of a group represented in the overall population and the proportion of the same group at any given point within a system. Structural inequality affects an entire class of people by granting them special access to assistance as a result of their race, ethnicity, gender, class or wealth. Racial disparity is an ever growing problem within the criminal justice system partly

If you have money you can afford to live in nicer upscale housing, not like poor people, they do not have that luxury. They live in neighborhoods that are dirty, rat infested, gang in habited and all kinds of other dangers. Rats leave droppings that are disease infested and overtime these droppings breakdown into dust, which can travel in the air and adults and children inhale this dust, which causes different illnesses.

Racial inequality and discrimination is a major factor that is still present in America’s society today. Considering the fact that America’s history of racial complications is still an issue in today’s society. Minorities (African American, Asian Americans, Hispanics/Latinos) which is accounted for almost half of the population if combined, are the ones that face discrimination the most, typically everywhere they go and especially in the workforce. They are not treated as equally as everyone else and for that, it is a problem that should never be overlooked.

The Unites States is the most diverse country in the world. In this very culturally diverse nation one would automatically think that equality would exist. Realistically it does not, particularly in the Criminal Justice System. Racial Inequality in the Criminal Justice System results from the disparate treatment of correspondingly situated people grounded on race. The history of racial inequality in the Criminal Justice System in the United States has been age-old. With this country 's dishonorable past of slavery, the Jim Crow laws, and plentiful other racially established injustices, it seems apparent that race plays a factor in many aspects of the criminal justice system, such as who is more probable to come in contact with it and who is more likely to be incarcerated.

Submission refers to at least six sociological concepts covered in the lectures or textbook reading

The impact on minorities due to inequality
Introduction 
During the course of this class I have learned about social problems within the society in which we live and around the world. It is disturbing to learn that poverty, social inequality, race and cultural discrimination, gender stratification, environmental damage, population growth, and urbanization are among the social problems and controversial issues that still exist in the United States.

Minorities are being sentence to jail for harsher punishment more than whites in the United States. In this disparity of the justice system, young white males between the ages of 18-29 were 38% less likely to be sentences to prison than black men of the same age group (Kansal, 2005). According to Kansal (2005) “ Young uneducated or unemployed African American and Hispanic males are more likely to serve longer sentences and, have a

The criminal justice system operates at various levels throughout the United States (US): the federal, state, and local governments combine to perform different tasks in order to properly enforce the law throughout the US. The judicial branch of the US contains the courts system, which enforces the law by punishing those who have committed illegal acts. The act by which a court executes its power and punishes somebody with some sort of consequence is referred to as a sentence (Greene, 2011, p.1). Throughout the history of the US, there have been many famous court cases where a defendant is either wrongfully convicted or given an unfair sentence because they belong to a minority group. Such instances where a person is given an unfair

Sociological theory creates ways to understand the social world by having different theories to explain understand social life. It aids to make sense of this social world. It draws together a wide range of perspectives to help provide the fullest picture. (Macionis & Plummer p.36) It shows that one theory can explain something that another cannot. My aim is to answer this question with reference to both functionalism and conflict theory. This will be done by comparing and contrasting both theories in relation to their perspectives on both suicide and gender discrimination as social issues relevant to this day and age. Functionalism and conflict perspectives are both macro theories. This means that they focus on the big picture, for

The paper should be typed, double-spaced, 11-point font, 1” margins. Both the write-up and your typed journal should be saved as ONE document with page numbers. Remember to include a citation for any resources referenced, in proper APA format, and make sure your name is on your paper.

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The sociological inquiry is the methodical analysis of the inspirations and behaviour of individuals within a group. It is the study of the social world as a whole and focusing on how elements such as the family, religion, school, community and government effect it. Sociological inquires most standard goal is to simply obtain a more clear understanding of the observable social world that we live in. In this essay I will be looking into the sociological theories of Marx, Weber and Durkheim, and recognising if their approaches are still relevant today.