African Americans have the lowest encomia statistics unemployment, education, and also face social problems such as drugs, violence, gang's crime and racism. A social problem that I will discuss is unemployment in urban cities. ... We have a come to know that every individual lives, from one generations to the next in society, that lives out a biography and that he lives it out within some historical sequence"(the sociological imagination page 5 b).I think is this a example of social structures that someone lives knowing that they don't get hired for a job because someone else was gi...

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This social movement looked to outlaw discrimination towards black Americans and obtain their right to vote. ... The masons saw value in social capital, meaning features of social organization that facilitated coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit. ... The Prince Hall masons of New York helped serve as a route for non-political economic and social organizations to support the ongoing protests taking place during the civil rights movement8. ... Prince hall masons were leaders in the fight to abolish slavery and extend rights and also helped build social organizations for black America...

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The Civil Rights Movement in the American South in the 1950s and 1960s was one of the most significant and successful social movements in the 20th century. ... This movement's success inspired many other social movements, including the Women's Liberation Movement. ... The latter of the two was the collective social struggle for equality that aimed to eliminate forms of oppression based on gender and to free women from male supremacy. ... Thirdly, by fighting for equality, the Civil Rights Movement changed the culture of advocacy and made social justice a legitimate cause. ... The Civ...

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The historical roles of African-American women have been determined by their leading functions in the family, that is their African heritage, "The importance of motherhood as vital to the survival of the group, a strong work orientation, the relative independence of women, as well as the value of extended family network.... Nevertheless, she was not alone, there was in her offspring, other members of her family who had struggle to gain social equality for Canadian blacks; as his father, Abraham Doras Shadd, who strike against racism in Canada establishing masonic lodges there. ...

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Some police officers have taken extreme measures in regards to implementing the law when it comes to African Americans. Law enforcement is professional, effective, efficient, and often regarded as a model to follow worldwide. Some would hold that a significant factor in the history of this professio...

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Furthermore, the similarities between America and South Africa prior to American radical change in social policy seemed to prove that significant intra-white conflict threatened political stability and hence nation-state consolidation, legal racial domination was used to unify whites by excluding blacks. ... Recent scholarship on "race " has rejected the view that race is a natural or biological division among human beings, but more on the emphasis instead as a social construction, and hence its historical variable, meanings. ... In America, despite the ending of slavery, northern and souther...

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