Describe institutional discrimination. Provide an example.

What will be an ideal response?


Answers will vary. In institutional discrimination, minority group members experience unequal treatment because of a society's everyday laws, rules, policies, practices, and customs. Institutional discrimination is widespread.

Sociology

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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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Which of the following comprise the "real winners" in the story of welfare reform?

a. the welfare clients who left welfare, at least temporarily b. the low-wage workers who know they can "fall back" on welfare, if necessary c. the restaurant, hotel, retail, food service chains, corporations, etc. who employ low-wage workers d. the millions of former welfare clients who found work, marriage, education, and other pathways to success

Sociology

The world's three richest people, each with at least $84 billion in wealth, have combined wealth that roughly equals the wealth of all the people in__________.

A. the world's poorest country B. the world's two poorest countries C. the world's 25 poorest countries D. 108 of the world's 194 countries

Sociology

Cultural lag refers to the fact that some cultural elements change more quickly than others

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Sociology