{"id":782,"date":"2011-07-29T11:20:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=782"},"modified":"2011-11-07T15:30:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:30:15","slug":"sociology-finds-discrimination-in-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2011\/07\/29\/sociology-finds-discrimination-in-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociology Finds Discrimination in the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recommend using these discussion questions and activity with Ellen Berrey&#8217;s interesting and well-written article\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/articles\/files\/2009\/05\/contexts-spring09-sociology-finds-discrimination-in-the-law.pdf\">Sociology Finds Discrimination in the Law<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/articles\/files\/2009\/05\/contexts-spring09-sociology-finds-discrimination-in-the-law.pdf\">(read the full article for free here!) <\/a>which appeared in the Spring 2009 issue of <em>Contexts.<a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by CarbonNYC on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/15923063@N00\/3568465565\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2445\/3568465565_ec3e29d8af_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"UnAmerican\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How would you define discrimination? How does your definition compare with a more formal, legal definition?<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The article states that sometimes people discriminate unintentionally. What are examples of unintentional discrimination?<\/p>\n<p>3) \u00a0 \u00a0Based on what you learned from this article, what do you think should be done to rectify the effects of discrimination? Who should be responsible for taking action?<\/p>\n<p>ACTIVITY:<\/p>\n<p>Explore the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eeoc.gov\/\">eeoc.gov<\/a>) and read up about the different kinds of discrimination. Have you or someone you know been a victim of the types of discrimination described?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recommend using these discussion questions and activity with Ellen Berrey&#8217;s interesting and well-written article\u00a0Sociology Finds Discrimination in the Law (read the full article for free here!) which appeared in the Spring 2009 issue of Contexts. 1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How would you define discrimination? How does your definition compare with a more formal, legal definition? 2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[470,321,838,76],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-discrimination","tag-law","tag-readings","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}