The landmark legislation that declared that citizens with ...

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The landmark legislation that declared that citizens with disabilities should have the same access to physical spaces such as buildings and bathrooms as their nondisabled peers is called the __________.
 
  a. Civil Rights Act of 1964
  b. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
  c. National Advisory Commission on Disabilities Act of 1991
  d. National Disabilities Act of 1990

Question 2

How is inequality of opportunity measured?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

Inequality of opportunity refers to the ways in which inequality shapes the opportunities that children and young adults have to maximize their potential. If an individual's chances to do well in life depend on the advantages or disadvantages of birth and early childhood, then we say opportunity is unequally distributed. However, measuring opportunity in any society is not a simple research question. Because there is no one obvious way of determining how much opportunity individuals really have in a society, social scientists use social mobility as an approximate measure. Social mobility is the pattern of intergenerational inheritance in a society and a measure of the extent to which parents and their children have similar or different social and economic positions in adulthood. A high-mobility society, where there is relatively little connection between parents' and children's place in life, approximates the ideal of equality of opportunity. In highly mobile societies, where a child ends up in life is determined largely through her or his own achievements. By contrast, when there is a relatively close connection between parents and their children's positions when children reach adulthood, social mobility is low. In low-mobility societies, the advantages or disadvantages of birth fully determine one's social position.