Legal & Social Equality: The Struggle Against Oppression and Bigotry

LEGAL AND SOCIAL EQUALITY

The Struggle Against Oppression and Bigotry

Brief Introduction

The law states that the legal and social equality is a form of emancipation of people from the bondage of injustice and usurpation of individual rights . These individual rights co-exist in community interactions , migration and working together in a multi-cultural-racial environment . However , the societal issue on racism is a continuing burden in the people 's way of life which is why a state policy is needed to address the struggle against oppression and bigotry

This will discuss the

undertaking of policy adherent to legal and social equality as a crucial remedy to the social injustice of racial discrimination in emerging worlds of multi-cultural societies

Defining the Concepts

In the Chapter 10 of the book , American Public Policy : An Introduction published by Cochran , et .al (2006 , it says that although equality is much symbolized and is more of a political appeal , it remains to be an unfamiliar cultural representation . In other words , based from the book to discern the concept of equality from any political symbolism , it must be represented with three characteristics : equal treatment of law , equal achievement of opportunity , and equal attainment of welfare

In effect , the acumen of the three characteristics would emanate from the application of a policy procedure that shall be adopted and put to practice the concept of equality that shall manifest in individuals sexual category , age , culture , race , religious beliefs , physical condition and workplace

Equality as prescribed by Law

According to the book , the so-called compelling public interest categorizes the government 's assumption , treatment and judgment to individual capabilities , and circumstance . In addition , based on the book , the law opposes the discrimination of women to partake in the occupational work of men . In which case , women participation in technical , trade-skill , and military occupational work is seen sizeable based on the 1983 to 2003 statistical data of US Census Office (2004 in Cochran , 2006

Thus , the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has widened the path to liberalism and people 's social participation . The sanction of the Civil Rights paved way to resolving racial discrimination and reconciling political differences with regard to the aspects of interracial political-economic involvement particularly the African , Hispanic , and Asian cultures that emerged

Classification and Purpose of enacting the Civil Rights Act

As pointed out by Cochran (2006 , the classification of a policy is based on purpose , in which , the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is effective within the membership of society that comprises of the people within bounds of citizenship and the system of individual migration to acquire citizenship in a country . Therefore , Civil Rights Act guarantees the liberal integration and interaction of people in a society without prejudice to religion-cultural-racial characteristic color and gender

The Civil Rights primarily envelopes social empowerment . According to the journal , The New Civil Rights Movement : Economic Empowerment , the re-direction of cultural unification to a substantive stage of economic empowerment of people in merging cultures are participative in the free...