Mortgage brokers sometimes deny mortgages and real estate agents may decline to show a house to a prospective buyer on the basis of the person's race. These discriminatory practices are best described as

A. human ecology.
B. gentrification.
C. functionalism.
D. institutional discrimination.


Answer: D

Sociology

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