Annotated Bibliography: The Structure Of Social Institutions

Reading the articles “From Beyond Outrage” by Robert B. Reich, and “A Tangle of Pathology to a Race-Fair America” by Alan Aja. Daniel Bustillo, William Darity Jr., and Darrick Hamilton, made me comprehend additional perspectives about class, ethnic groups, and education to our examination of success. Specifically, the way “A Tangle of Pathology to a Race-Fair America” explains its point of views, and the facts that it provides makes the reader fully understand how race has affected employment throughout the years. Black families were trapped in the Tangle of Pathology; representing how they had, and still continue to have, extremely low benefits and advantages compared to the whites. Race, class and education have a powerful connection, since

Black women deal with challenges every day, whether it’s because of their race, gender, class, education, religious or sexual ties. When it comes to Black women we tend to view their issues as either race or gender related to the exclusion of other aspects of their identity and their intersectionality (Bryant-Davis 114). The show Insecure, an HBO comedy series created by Issa Rae, focuses on the sisterly bond between two young professional black women living in Los Angeles. The show demonstrates the challenges that black women face on a regular basis, whether it’s finding love, navigating a white dominated workplace, battling stereotypes or finding their identity. Although Insecure deals with many important sociological issues, the focus of this paper is the representation of Black women in the workplace, specifically in a white environment and the microaggressions they encounter in their attempt to succeed in their careers.

Why are the vast majorities of deviant behaviors routine and institutionalized and so few are considered innovative or idiosyncratic? The Routine behaviors are more common than innovative; don't require abnormal amounts of psychological capacity or include deliberate exertion; little exertion/no broad arranging (Humphrey & Schmalleger, 2012 Institutionalized social orders are a sort of institution, even families can go about as establishments. However, for the most part, the expression "institutional conduct" is utilized for jails, mental healing centers, halfway houses, substantial companies, and government organizations. The issue with most institutional conduct is that it may be unseemly outside that establishment. Practices that are gainful

1 a.) As defined by sociology, a minority group is one that is singled out and treated as lesser people, and given less say and resources than those who are of a higher station in society ((Ed.), (n.d)). The importance of having different ‘classes’ in society is that it defines who will be the one who serves those at the top and those who will be at the top. Although the separation of each class gives a clearer definition of who we are in society we should not allow that to stop us from striving to move up the stratification ladder. The poor in the U.S. begin at the door step of the single minority single White mothers, who make up the bottom thirty percent of the population (Meyer, 2014). Black women are even more of a minority than the White woman in today’s society. This is closely followed Black men and the Hispanic population coming in at 27 and 26 percent-respectively (Commerce, 2014). Women are minorities in many areas such as employment, education, and government support. Women are overlooked when it comes to being ‘allowed’ into certain jobs, neighborhoods, colleges and universities. Women are in general paid less for more work, longer hours and with less benefits. The working conditions for women are less stable than those of a man in the same position. The wages that they work for are even lower than that of their White contemparies and the conditions are even worse for them. Women earn about 77 cents for every

Race, class and gender affect the work experience of almost all workers in the American market. The three main areas race, class, and gender interlock to form the matrix of domination because they interlock and overlap one another. The areas that the overlapping and interlocking effect are the areas of America 's work experience and its effect on earnings and labor conditions. These three forces help to shape the experience of workers, and depending on various dynamics, for example if there is an economic slump or not, one of the three will feel more noticeable or meaningful for different people. The examination of the societal formation of race, gender and class relations at a real estate agency where the people are diverse will help expose the dynamics of power relations. The areas affected by these societal formation include the outlook of individual workers access to privileges, power within the institution, and group interactions that occur.

The American work constrain has experienced a time of surprising statistic change in late decades. A few powers for change have been established in the diverse desires of ladies in regards to the harmony amongst family unit and market work. Different powers for change have emerged from migration, both genuine and illegal, and from various birthrates among racial/ethnic gatherings. The outcome has been an articulated and proceeding with change in the blend of gatherings in the work drive (Ehrenberg and Smith, p 393). We cannot preclude the nearness of oppression ladies and minorities in the work advertise. Before outlining strategies to end separation, nonetheless, we must comprehend the sources and instruments causing it. The objective of

Races – menial labor – I suggest that the category of menial labor might supply a means for such conceptualization. In its derivation “menial” designates the labor of servants. Wherever there is racism, there is the assumption that the members of the oppressed racial groups are or ought to be servants of those, or some of those, in the privileged group…in the US today much service labor has gone public: anyone who goes to a good hotel or a good restaurant can have servants … strong cultural pressure to full service/servant labor positions with Black and Latino workers – entail a transfer of energies whereby the servers enhance the status of the served. Menial labor usually refers not only to service but also to any servile, unskilled, low-paying

Social structure is the way society is organized into predictable relationships. There are five elements when you break down social structure. The first being status. We usually associate having a status to the amount of influence, wealth and fame. But sociologists use the term status to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society, from the lowest to the highest. Examples of this are being a son or daughter, dental technician or the president of the United States. Sociologists also see some status to be achieved or ascribed and an ascribed status is when a person is assigned to it by society without regard for the person 's unique talents or characteristics. But the achieved status comes to

Social scientists believe that race mattered in the distribution of symbolic resources and material. For instance, the difference in employment opportunities, promotion, and the income of the blacks and the whites are evidence of racial discrimination in the workplace that Monica Harwell experienced. The legally segregated schools also explained the racial inequality in the attainment of education. When racial prejudice decreased in the U.S.A (Duckit, 2001), some theories emerged, giving explanations as to why discrimination appeared persisted and changed in some regions. Racial intolerance in social places like the work, schools, sports, etc. have been on the rise. So, the paper will discuss the event described above from a sociological

Social injustices are unfortunately still prevalent in today’s modern society. Racism has come a far way due to many social movements, however it still remains ingrained and institutionalized in various forms. Race is a cause of political and economic interest who stratified groups in order to gain more power. The government created social regulations to prevent social inequalities due to race, class, and gender to take place. Despite social regulations racism still is a part of out present day society. Article 34 by Christine Williams discussed discrimination in the forms of class, gender, and race to women in particular. Stratification leads to racial and gender discrimination in companies towards employees and customers. This is an analysis of discrimination in the workforce to colored woman as well as businesses discrimination to colored consumers.

Not enough people are upset about the social inequality in our modern American society, and there is far too much of it for people to simply ignore. Too many people are complaining about “reverse racism” and “affirmative action” and not looking at the realities of living in this country. The American systems of government and business are working against almost everyone that is not a wealthy, cisgender, heterosexual, white male. This paper will be covering themes discussed in Max Weber’s “Class, Status, Party”, C. Wright Mills’ “The Power Elite”, G. William Domhoff’s “Who Rules America” and Bruce Western’s “Incarceration, Unemployment and Inequality” to express how the established system of the United States of America is stacked against women, people of color, and the poor.

Throughout my life, I have learned many things when it comes to gender and class. When I was young, my mother and my stepfather owned their own fencing company and brought in good money for my stepbrother and I. Things felt easy, we had a roof over our head, and the fridge always had food in it. Little did I know that during that time, the economy was not at its best and it was quickly getting worse as the days rolled on. People lost their homes and their businesses went from being good moneymakers to being almost a burden to keep alive. Being a woman and the owner of their business and from what I have learned over the years she was treated unequally because she was a woman. The advantages that many people had were based not only on how much money they made, but also because of certain class statuses. Because of these status’s it was much harder to overcome this recession. Gender and class effect everything in this country and ways to making it more of an equal opportunity is still struggling to catch up with the present.

There are many sociological issues in the world today that can relate back to the concept theories that Karl Marx and Max Weber formed many years ago. Although there are too many for us to go further in depth on, I chose to primarily focus on Racism and Classism. With the perspectives of these theorists in mind I can explain how Racism, Classism, in conjunction with Feminism are among the largest social problems human beings face in the world today.

The world’s complicated social and governmental systems, as well as the main power players in great economic organizations make the world’s political systems a shady and confusing place. It can be rather difficult to understand exactly what the purpose of the ICC is, for instance, or at least why it is necessary. Quite often, people are put off by politics simply because they cannot wade through the muck that is political bickering or simply because they cannot understand the thousand page bills. This essay should help explain the purpose and the ideas behind many of our most powerful global institutions.

In our American families and societies, we still see that racial and ethnic inequalities that still exists. The news article of Stanford News, “Significant racial and ethnic disparities still exist, according to Stanford report” by Milenko Martinovich relates with our lecture on Social class and racial/ethnic differences in family formation patterns because the news report and out lecture slides clearly explained that most of the African Americans and Hispanics are the ones who faces the inequities of housing, employment, health, wealth and education. Also this is not a perfect example of our lecture topic on social class and racial/ethnic differences in family formation patterns because their news reports did not mention anything about how and in what level are most of the African Americans and Hispanics families goes under social classes.