Though regardless of these attempts, racial inequality still exists in our society today. This inequality effects the education minorities receive, the wages they earn and even the neighborhoods in which minorities live. All of these factors, along with sociological analysis of racial inequality will be discussed in this paper.

It has been over 50 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the segregation of public schools. Yet at this time, researchers claim that segregation in the U.S. public school system is on the rise. According to BBC News, “Between 1988 and 1998, the number of black pupils in majority white schools decreased from 43.5% to 32.7%.” BBC News goes on to report that, “The average black or Lati

Possibly these irregularities are due to the lack of affordable housing in suburban areas. However, this may be in part due to discriminatory lending practices or another form of discrimination referred to as, “steering”. Steering is the offering of homes in neighborhoods not of interest or not occupied by whites to minority home buyers. According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Housing Discrimination Study 2000:

It would seem obvious that racial inequality is not a factor of today’s society for one sole reason and cannot be summed up in any of these theories. At the same time each of these sociological theories provides important insight in regards to why racial inequality still exists. Functionalism allows us to see that we now and always will have the need for unskilled, low wage workers to remain somewhat balanced. While the conflict theory offers explanation about the ongoing battle for power in society. Finally, symbolic interaction presents us with the thought that racial lines are actually created by members of society through our own interaction.

Functionalists believe these conditions are not fair however they do contribute to the ability of society to properly function and remain balanced. The theory of functionalists maint

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