Race, Gender And Religion Inequality

The 21-st century is characterized by the continuous economic downfall. The relationship between race, class and gender should be evaluated to identify the life chances of people to improve their relative position in our socially stratified world. The increased rates of unemployment, homelessness and poverty show that our society requires implementing a transformative approach to reduce social stratification. The term social stratification is applied to identify and asses different forms of inequality that exist in the US society. Patricia H Collins suggests, “while a piece of the oppressor may be planted deep within each of us, we each have the choice of accepting that piece or challenging it as part of the 'true focus of revolutionary change'” (p. 680). Inequality has become a universal feature of our society; therefore, it exists everywhere and concerns race, class, and gender as the key categories of society.

Throughout the semester, we have discussed many different social justice issues. One issue that has stuck with me is gender and racial inequality. Gender inequality is very important to me because I was raised by a single mother and surrounded by women all the time. I do not believe that anyone should be payed or treated differently due to their gender. While growing up, I saw that women are capable for doing anything and often times have to work harder than men to prove themselves. Racial inequality is an issues that is important to me because I feel that all individuals should be equal. I think Dr. King’s idea of color blindness, not today’s definition, should be something that we as a society strive for. We need to move past the idea that

Many living a contemporary lifestyle in the United States would say there is extreme racial inequality in the wage gap between minorities and the Caucasian majority. As a matter of fact, Ta-Nehisi Coates, from The Atlantic, recently stated in her 2014 article, “The Case for Reparations” that, “The income gap between black and white households is roughly the same today as it was in 1970. And whereas whites born into affluent neighborhoods tended to remain in affluent neighborhood, blacks tended to fall out of them” (Coates, 2017) With some statistics stating that, when taking into account inflation, the wage gap specifically between African Americans and Caucasian Americans is the same as it was in 1970, eleven years before the last known racial lynching. Assuming this is considered a problem, one would need to take steps to fix the problem, likely by minimizing the wage gap. A radical solution would be to criminalize discrepancies in pay in both private and public businesses. Another unfit solution would be to tax people and redistribute wealth based on race, as this would be considered an even more prevalent form of discrimination against Caucasian Americans than the current forms of discrimination against African Americans. To find a solution covering a reasonable middle ground, one could create a social justice movement, bringing attention to the discriminatory pay rates to the public eye, which will hopefully de facto change the wage gap among all races and minorities.

Since America’s beginning, race based barriers have mired the fulfillment of our shared principles and many of these barriers still persist today. The institutionalized inequalities are detrimental on an individual basis as well a societal basis. Racism does not only affect the individuals that are being oppressed but also how society functions as a whole. Racial inequalities have manifested in American society in ways that underlies a wide range of societal domains such as housing patterns, educational opportunities, healthcare inequality, and incarceration rates. Current events and experiences demonstrate moreover that racial inequality is still adamant in the American culture. Long after slavery, the Jim Crow Era, and the civil rights movement, racial inequality has taken distinctive forms which affect many people within a racially oppressed group. Racial segregation at large is embedded within a structural matrix that not only permeates in the American culture but in our private and public institutions. Disparities in the criminal justice system and housing patterns remain a key barrier to racial equality in America. In order to eradicate racial inequality, there needs to be policy solutions that place fundamental changes to a system with profound historical origins, one that structurally disadvantages minority groups.

I would make punishments harsher for felonies crimes, station police officers in crime concentrated areas, and inmates would have to be productive in our society. This would improve my society, and cause less crime. Fairness will also be paramount in my society. Though never will anything be fair to everyone; there will always be complaints, bias judgements, dishonesty, and therefore injustice may happen. But my system of justice will be closer to fair than where our justice system is today. If I was a leader of society the things I would change would be for the better of the citizens and people throughout the country, and with these changes, there would be too much

Something that I also found really interesting is how white people get offended by fact that color of people accused them of the inequality that we have in this country, for example some of the things they bring up is that “they didn’t ask to be white”, yet they still contribute to the idea of color blindness by refusing to see the reality that they will always have more power over a person of color regardless their education level or income. Whites will never understand the harsh reality of race in the U.S., Lopez makes a great point about this “ But beliefs in innate racial inequality could not be perceived as morally evil until they were first seen as factually wrong. This was impossible to imagine for persons steeped in the belief that

As our nation accepts a new president and the realities of politics in a post-Obama world, it is a perfect time to focus the conversation on economic progress and racism. In the past ten years, issues surrounding race and economics have contributed to America’s social classes being in direct competition with each other, while simultaneously causing America to address historical and contemporary racial inequalities that have been hidden in the past. (citation). The current political platform provides us with an opportunity to highlight racism and the economic injustices that have been place on African Americans and many other minorities. Racism is an ideology that is based on the principle that human beings can be subdivided and ranked into

This Paper was written to discuss social inequality related to race relations. By comparing two articles “Ethno-Racial Attitudes and Social Inequality” and “What happens before? A field experiment exploring how pay and representation differentially shape bias on the pathway into organizations” this paper will explore racial social injustices with the intent to showcase the thinking about race relations and social inequality.

The 2005 film Guess Who illustrates how racial inequality is present within society, and how race is used by our society to create and manufacture social categories. This film is about a black female named Theresa and a white man named Simon that fight against the racial inequality present within their society and choose to be together. Stereotypes, prejudice, ethnic chauvinism, and racism are prevalent concepts throughout the movie. Most of these concepts are displayed by the people that Theresa and Simon surround themselves with, but throughout the movie the audience starts to see that Theresa and Simon gradually start to exemplify these racist concepts in their arguments and conversations. They start to believe that they are unequal and different because of their skin, and this shows the power that society has over its members. Specifically, how racial inequality is so deeply rooted in our society that we force the view that race is a form of social stratification on people. This is done through stereotypical comments and irrelevant cultural differences that are reinforced through selective perception. The concept of racial inequality is extremely prevalent throughout this film and many sociological theories can be applied to shed light on this specific social problem

The race is a social construct that has real life consequences. The race is a fiction created by the dominant part of the society in order to legitimize their supremacy on those they wish to regulate. Racism: a term that was first coined by the Nazis in the 1930s in their attempt to make Germany clean of Jews . The race is a social construct that has both biological and cultural aspects but not based on scientific truths.

If I could change one thing about the world I would abolish racism. I believe that everyone should be treated equally and have equal opportunities achieving their goals and persuing their dreams. I foresee that the world is becoming less and less racist but it is still a serious problem especially in North America with police brutality within minority groups. Minority groups are 3x more likely to be killed by a police officer compared to the majority in the United States and only about 28% of the United States' population consists of minority groups. So the facts don't really add up when minorities are way more likely to be killed by a police officer and minorities make up a small precent of the population.

The world is filled with multiple things. Some good and some bad. I wouldn’t change just anything. Like many in the past have done. Making things change by force like the dictators of the past. If I had this power I would change these three things.

Equality for women in our society has been a controversial issue for centuries, sparking debates, marches, protests, and movement for the purpose of lifting women out of servitude to men. Many might point to the idea that women are the smaller, delicate, and weaker of the two genders as the reason for male domination. In history there have been many groups that were dominated by another group, but none with such complicity from those claiming to be following the word of God, as men over women. The Bible, perhaps the most influential collection of scripture, seems to align man with God; “Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Let him have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds

In world religion, gender inequality has always been a great concern. This inequality did not exist based on the concepts of original religion but through cultural influence and social manipulation. The essence of Buddhism originated from a human being (known as Buddha). And Buddha is the one who achieved the highest enlightenment. Often in Buddhism concept, there was confusion about how much devotion is required to achieve the great “Enlightenment” for monk or nun. Women in the Buddhism face much more challenges to become enlightened. Throughout the essay, I will be focusing on how in Buddhist woman needs to be reborn as a man to be fully enlightened. This means this essay will examine the difficulties women face as a nun and how they

So, what is the relationship between race, class, and gender on the life balances of people to progress their relative position in this socially stratified world? Well, to begin with, social stratification is a system by which a society positions categories of people in a hierarchy. In American society, it is clearly obvious that some groups have greater status, power, and wealth than other groups do. It has been this way for centuries.