Question
a. What are the relative impacts of structure and culture in producing inequality? Do structural forces interact with culture to produce poverty? Be sure to both define and provide examples of both structural and cultural factors.
b. What is the impact of race in producing inequality? In answering this question, please respond specifically to Wilson’s argument about framing (Ch. 5).
YOU WILL NEDD THIS BOOK
Wilson, William Julius. 2009. More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner
City. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN: 978-0393067057
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According to Lynch (2002) despite the desperate attempts by the USA constitution to enhance equality among the different factions, there remain significant challenges, which promote social, political, and economic differences. In the course, and through the distinctive readings, we examined the confounding factors that determine the nature of social and economic stratification. The core influence of the modern inequality arises from the imbalanced social, cultural, and structural forces. During the development of policies that seek to enhance equality, the government and other stakeholders ignore the impact of the social interactions, racial history, and early settlements. In the end, as these factors still influence development, the early-marginalized groups remain discriminated through informal subscriptions. Summarily, the USA society remains skewed due to unstable equilibrium between cultural and structural parameters. Although highly discouraged in formal and corporate interactions, the racial orientations as adopted from beliefs and traditions plays a major role in promoting contemporary inequality.Julius Wilson argues that the formation of the structural frameworks is dependent on the early social and cultural inclinations. In his examination, he identified two major factors that affect the stratification of the current society. The factors include the national view on a certain race and the evident cultural traits that determine the psychological and physiological traits of an individual. He posits that, through socialization, people from the same race are likely to develop a common trait, which affects their cognitive development and corporate abilities. He also recognizes that the current racial status affects how a specific group reacts to development, poverty, and political ideologies. As such, to most social players, it is rational to use the racial subscription to identify the possible personality traits. Nevertheless, the stereotyping, which has been applicable in American social interactions, is non-inclusive and borrows...
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