There are many reasons and variations as to why society discriminates in American society. Three of the reasons discrimination is rampant in America are, gender, race and age. Our textbook defines discrimination as “the unequal treatment of various categories of people” (Macionis, 2015, p. 102). While, according to Oxford dictionaries discrimination is “The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex” ("Oxford Dictionaries," 2016). Discrimination has many faces and levels pertaining to the prevalence of treatment of one another. One avenue that discrimination evolves too into is prejudice. Our textbook Macionis, 2015, p. 98 defines prejudice as “any rigid and unfounded generalization
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The first factor is personality of the individual. The second key factor is society itself. Macionis, (2015), Stated that according to “Karl Marx traced the roots of social inequality to a society’s economy”. (Kim, Sellbom, & Ford, n.d., p. 893), states that hierarchy is conceptual and given a perceived equivalence based on societal corresponding factors related to factorial invariances in society; Also, at least three conditions must be present for measurement, conceptual, metric, and structural equivalence. Society in America is one of capitalism, Americans are taught from a very young age we are to be the best, bigger is better, possessions and monetary gains are to be sought. This inherent behavior is in my opinion that indifference, discrimination and unbalance is so evident in our society. We from a young age are taught if you do not have or can’t acquire these things you are substandard or …show more content…
533). I revert back to the previous paragraph; because of completion and primal instincts, we tend to view difference as something to contend with. Will this other being be completion for me and my sustainability. Will the other person or people in question pose a threat or can I dominate them? Aside from the oblivious genetic differences, some races are better adapted to the geographical area that the originally inhabit. Africans generally are taller and have more eumelanin in their skin better suiting them for the heat; compared to that of other races with that of light skin. These differences have and can create indifference, discrimination and injustice simply by one small
The first factor is personality of the individual. The second key factor is society itself. Macionis, (2015), Stated that according to “Karl Marx traced the roots of social inequality to a society’s economy”. (Kim, Sellbom, & Ford, n.d., p. 893), states that hierarchy is conceptual and given a perceived equivalence based on societal corresponding factors related to factorial invariances in society; Also, at least three conditions must be present for measurement, conceptual, metric, and structural equivalence. Society in America is one of capitalism, Americans are taught from a very young age we are to be the best, bigger is better, possessions and monetary gains are to be sought. This inherent behavior is in my opinion that indifference, discrimination and unbalance is so evident in our society. We from a young age are taught if you do not have or can’t acquire these things you are substandard or …show more content…
533). I revert back to the previous paragraph; because of completion and primal instincts, we tend to view difference as something to contend with. Will this other being be completion for me and my sustainability. Will the other person or people in question pose a threat or can I dominate them? Aside from the oblivious genetic differences, some races are better adapted to the geographical area that the originally inhabit. Africans generally are taller and have more eumelanin in their skin better suiting them for the heat; compared to that of other races with that of light skin. These differences have and can create indifference, discrimination and injustice simply by one small