Prejudice And Racial Discrimination: Sociology Analysis

Power is many things. It is the ability to control people in their sayings and/or actions. It is the ability to get whatever you want. Power is a necessary component in any society, otherwise all pandemonium would break loose; leaders must be established. But, when taken to an extreme, power is not good, and pandemonium will break loose. Difference, is define as a point or way in which people or things are not the same. Difference leads us to discrimination. Discrimination means specific groups are treated inequality; it is a kind of prejudice to those certain groups. There are various discriminations, for example, gender, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion and so on. Weber defined power as the chance that an individual in
When talking about difference we are actually opening up the subject of discrimination. Gender and racial discrimination are especially obvious in the organizational management area. Gender difference can be seen as discrimination against women, as Smith states “further how our knowledge of the world is mediated to us becomes a problem. It is a problem in knowing how that world is organized for us prior to our participation as knowers in that process” (Smith, p. 12). She feels the perspective has framed and control the symbolic and conceptual ways of making sense of the world through the sociological perspective, since it is developed from and by men’s experience. Additive practices will only “extend authority of [the] existing sociological procedures and makes of a women’s sociology an addendum” (Smith, p. 7). Therefore, she argues, a new sociology is necessary. Difference between races is a huge part which brings up the issue of hyper-criminalization of Black and Latino male youth. In the article of Victor M. Rios “The Hyper-Criminalization of Black and Latino Male Youth in the Era of Mass Incarceration” she discusses that “youth of color not only experience this hyper-criminalization from criminal justice institutions but also from non-criminal justice structures traditionally intended to nurture: the school, the family, and the community center” (Rios, p. 40). From this we can conclude that in the era of incarceration the institution which carry on the system have manage, control, and incapacitate the Black and Latino youth. As we look at the article “Cycle of Socialization” by Bobbie Harro, it explains that we are born into a specific set of social identities and that they predispose us to unequal roles in the system of oppression. This tells us that we are born with roles that are there for us to follow even before we come into this