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Legal Mobilization As A Social Movement Tactic Summary

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The article, Legal Mobilization as a Social Movement Tactic, attempts to establish links between works on social movements and work on the mobilization of law by analyzing legal mobilization as a social movement tactic. In researching the link between the two, sociologist used two types of research. The first, focuses on economic outcomes, such as why one race might earn more than the other, and why men earn more than women. The second, focuses on what steps disadvantaged groups take to reduce economic and other forms of inequality, such as organization and tactics. In this article, it links these two types of research to find the means used by minorities and women, and the mobilization of the federal equal employment opportunity. The method …show more content…

The first, having actual evidence of discrimination in the work place. Such as; the number of complaints filed, which will depend on the actual size of the group and how it is spread throughout that group. The second, which is the most important, the relationship between being treated badly and taking legal action. The groups mobilization of the EEO laws rely on its organization, the members, economic conditions, and political climate. Research has shown that women are the largest group to suffer from employment discrimination. This is shown through the income difference between men and women who perform the same job. Women initiate the highest proportion of EEO disputes. The second group that faces high discrimination are blacks, though they are a smaller group in comparison to women, they have suffered a great amount of discrimination. Paul Burstein used a table to show the percentage of trends in mobilization and the proportion of EEO disputes involving race, sex, national origin, and religion. The data showed, over 80% of EEO disputes involve claims of racial or sexual discrimination, 10-12% dealt with national origin, and 2-3% on religion (paragraph 4, 1210). This data proved that race or sex is the most prominent form of discrimination that is

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