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- SAGE
- Copyright
- © American Sociological Association 2018
- ISSN
- 0094-3061
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- 1939-8638
- DOI
- 10.1177/0094306118792220ll
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Abstract
624 Reviews to introduce theory to the working sociolo- actions were unlawful, even though they gist, it does show how abstract ideas can be often were, and are. employed to explain concrete empirical More specifically, the policy-makers and cases. bureaucrats in the Federal Housing Admin- To do all this in one relatively short book is istration, the Veterans Administration, the an accomplishment in its own right. The National Labor Relations Board, the Federal brevity of the account of each theory does Reserve, the courts, and countless other fed- not subtract from the value of the book. On eral, state, and local offices were acting under the contrary: even the more advanced reader ‘‘the color of law’’ when they, in fact, contra- who is already familiar with some of the vened the constitution to create racially seg- discussed theories will find new insights in regated neighborhoods in cities and suburbs the connections between theories that are across the entirety of the United States. The presented. Rojas’s aim is to paint a picture explicit—a word that Rothstein uses often— of the sociological landscape at large, and nature of these policies is what drives Roth- he excels at attaining this goal. One
Journal
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews – SAGE
Published: Sep 1, 2018