Final Exam 2

Question 1

Author of “the perpetuation of the black under class” reading 32

Answer 1

Massey and Denton

Question 2

Found the U.S. is moving towards to different societies, integrate black people into society outside of the ghetto

Answer 2

1968 Kerner Commission

Question 3

Made discrimination in housing illegal.

Answer 3

Housing act of 1968

Question 4

The authors critique of Culture of poverty thesis

Answer 4

Argued against that people are lazy and don’t want to work

Question 5

David Patrick Moynihan and media interpretations

Answer 5

-structural absence of employment is causing problems in the inner city.- you have to look at social institutions, lack of jobs, poor education

Question 6

Authors argument regarding institutional racism, critique of Murray and welfare dependency, structure and economic change, index of dissimilarity and hyper segregation, oppositional culture, problem with enforcement of fair housing act.

Answer 6

-welfare isn’t good because people will be dependent on it.-index of dissimilarity, areas of hyper segregation -look at it in relation to social structure-problem with Fair Housing Act, only has been enforced individually, should be enforced systematically