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A 4 page paper that begins with a definition and discussion of structural inequality. The writer comments on the anti-discrimination and affirmative action regulations that emerged from the 1950s and also reports the recent ruling regarding the U. of Michigan's acceptance criteria and the ruling regarding the Dow Jones program exclusively for minorities. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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membership or position in the social organization of society" (p. 40). This type of inequality may be based on race, nationalities, gender, ethnicities, age, or any other specific type of
demographic. It can be summed up as social class segregation or stratification. In the U.S. race has been a factor in the concept of structural inequality since the country was
founded. Gundi (2002) said that racism subverts "social unity." It could be said that any kind of "ism" subverts that unity, whether that is gender, religion, age or anything
else. At the structural level, is ism is something that is not necessarily consciously recognized, it is not thought about and it is not talked about. It is a prejudice
that has "developed over time without cognizance" (Gundi, 2002, p. 2). It is something that has become intrinsic in the nations socioeconomic system (Gundi, 2002). It was this very situation
that brought about many different laws over the years. In fact, the first case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court was the Plessy vs. Ferguson case in 1896 when the
Court ruled that "separate but equal" education was legal (Gundi, 2002). That ruling perpetuated the historic notion that it was more important for White children to have a higher quality
education than Blacks. A rash of laws that came about beginning in the 1950s addressed the issues of discrimination and equal opportunity. The 1950s laws led to the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 and many other anti-discrimination laws and court cases (Gundi, 2002). There was a recognition that economic inequalities lead to severe poverty and research demonstrated clearly that children
raised in poverty do not have the same educational or other opportunities as other children (Gundi, 2002). After five decades of laws and court cases supporting different things like
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