The role of social norms in legitimating racial inequalities in earnings in the United States

Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Sociology - Miscellaneous, grade: 2:1, London School of Economics (International Inequalities Institute), language: English, abstract: Despite an increasing awareness of income inequality in the US, it continues to widen, in part due to lack of effective redistributive policy. These policies are largely shaped by public opinion, and so it seems necessary to ...