Samuel Lucas

Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prejudice: Discrimination in the United States

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A new perspective that helps us understand the damaged social relations that incubate racial and sexual discrimination

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781592139125
• ISBN-10: 1592139124
• Artikelnr.: 23457056

Autorenporträt

Samuel Roundfield Lucas is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Tracking Inequality: Stratification and Mobility in American High Schools and a co-author of Inequality By Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 
Introduction: Evidently 
1. Discrimination in the Era of Contested Prejudice: Fundamental Bases 
2. Experimental 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 Relation 
9. Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prejudice 
Appendix A: Commentary on Methods of Data Analysis for Chapter 2 
Appendix B:Commentary on Simulations for Chapter 5 
Reference 
Index