03343nam 2200637Ia 450 991045387120332120200520144314.01-281-97334-31-59213-914-09786611973346(CKB)1000000000579015(EBL)407565(OCoLC)437247329(SSID)ssj0000311353(PQKBManifestationID)12061931(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000311353(PQKBWorkID)10328624(PQKB)11497618(MiAaPQ)EBC407565(Au-PeEL)EBL407565(CaPaEBR)ebr10267616(CaONFJC)MIL197334(EXLCZ)99100000000057901520080212d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTheorizing discrimination in an era of contested prejudice[electronic resource] discrimination in the United States /Samuel Roundfield LucasPhiladelphia Temple University Press20081 online resource (297 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-59213-913-2 1-59213-912-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-273) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Evidently; 1 Discrimination in the Era of Contested Prejudice: Fundamental Bases; 2 Experiential Realities and Public Contestation; 3 From Condoned Exploitive Relations to the Era of Contested Prejudice; 4 Defining, Finding, and Remedying Discrimination: Dominant Legal Perspectives; 5 Defining, Finding, and Remedying Discrimination: Critical Legal Perspectives and the Critique of the Dominant Legal View; 6 Defining Discrimination Effects: An Asocial Scientific Method; 7 Discrimination as a (Damaged) Social Relation8 Epistemological Foundations for Studying Effects of Discrimination as a Social Relation9 Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prejudice; Appendix A: Commentary on Methods of Data Analysis for Chapter 2; Appendix B: Commentary on Simulation for Chapter 5; References; IndexDespite several decades of attention, there is still no consensus on the effects of racial or sexual discrimination in the United States. In this landmark work, the well-known sociologist Samuel Lucas shows how discrimination is not simply an action that one person performs in relation to another individual, but something far more insidious: a pervasive dynamic that permeates the environment in which we live and work.Challenging existing literature on the subject, Lucas makes a clear distinction between prejudice and discrimination. He maintains that when an era of "condoned DiscriminationUnited StatesRacismUnited StatesSexismUnited StatesUnited StatesRace relationsElectronic books.DiscriminationRacismSexism305.0973Lucas Samuel Roundfield923711MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453871203321Theorizing discrimination in an era of contested prejudice2073025UNINA