SOC 101: Racial Discrimination

When sociologists discuss racial stratification, there are two tendencies in their work. First, they are careful to distinguish between racial prejudice and racial discrimination (two terms which are popularly combined into a single term, racism). Second, rather than focus on the story of a single case, sociologists study variation in behavior across many cases. This video lecture prepared for the University of Maine at Augusta summarizes (and provides citations to) a number of sociological studies of race that demonstrate the continuing occurrence of racial discrimination in the United States.