Residential Segregation 3 Flashcards
What are some of the financial institutions that do exist in minority neighborhoods and why are they there?
They are likely to be predatory – pawn shops, payday lenders, check cashing. This occurs in part because of segregation and a legacy of redlining. (Rugh & Massey 2010)
Before what decade did lenders avoid inner-city minority neighborhoods through a combination of fear, prejudice, and institutional discrimination?
Before the 1980s (Rugh & Massey 2010)
What is social closure? And what is it’s aim?
Social closure—a term utilized by Weber to denote the process or processes by which actors seek to maximize advantage by restricting access and privileges to others. Its aim is status-hierarchy preservation and the various advantages/disadvantages that hierarchy affords.
Where does social closure often occur?
Often occurs through institutional exclusion and dominant group positioning. It also comes about, consciously and unconsciously, within the context of everyday interaction—interaction that, through language, symbolic acts, and/or physical control or force, has as
What group is most likely to experience exclusionary and nonexclusionary forms of discrimination?
African American women – a pattern that can be interpreted as a function of several factors, including their gender and class status as well as their status as mothers. It is no doubt the case that stereotypical notions of the single black mother are playing a part in these relations, shaping landlords’ willingness to rent, banks’ willingness to provide mortgages, and neighbors’ levels of civility. (Roscigno et al. 2009)
