Chapter 7: fin

Haha, mother nature, couldn't keep me off the blog forever!  Anyway, chapter 7 opened up with the 3 main necessities for inequality on a national scale: separating people into groups based on status, may it be achieved or ascribed; the labeling of these groups in either an in- or out-group; government structured around giving out limited resources to these groups in a biased form of descrimination, may it be either due to race, gender, or class.  In essence, this is America defined.  All the questions about why such stratification can occur are answered when looking at those needs, then looking at America.  Massey ended the book very strongly, pointing out that this is a flawed nation, yet not beyond repair.  Serious reform is what needs to happen, and with the horrifying cuts to the social sector going on right now, the future certainly isn't all that bright.