Theorizing discrimination in an era of contested prejudice : discrimination in the United States / / Samuel Roundfield Lucas
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| Autore: |
Lucas Samuel Roundfield
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| Titolo: |
Theorizing discrimination in an era of contested prejudice : discrimination in the United States / / Samuel Roundfield Lucas
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| Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Discrimination - United States |
| Racism - United States | |
| Sexism - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Race relations |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-273) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Relation |
| 8 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; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Despite 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Theorizing discrimination in an era of contested prejudice |
| ISBN: | 1-281-97334-3 |
| 1-59213-914-0 | |
| 9786611973346 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811777403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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