Later Views of the Socrates of Plato’s Symposium

Moore (1985) describes Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles as disproportionately representative of an urban underclass; a group that strives in vain to escape the "ascribed deviance" associated with minority persons in the ghetto and tries to achieve the benefits of a middle-class lifestyle. Moore defines ascribed deviance as when society stereotypically labels some minority persons as "probably ... ................
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