Social sorting

Criticisms are often directed at the laws, implemented rules, educational system, job employment opportunities and at the government[citation needed].

The September 11 attacks and the subsequent war on terror have fueled the desire for categorizing and profiling people[citation needed].

According to David Lyon, Canadians are still unaware of the fact that surveillance which goes collaboratively with social sorting is now very much integrated into their daily lives[citation needed].

[1] These constitute to a group of African Americans who work for good financial income in the upper tier for relatively privileged jobs.

Findings indicate that, after controlling for seniority, African Americans are susceptible to layoffs on a relatively broad and generalized basis that is unstructured by traditional, stratification-based causal factors, namely, background socioeconomic status, human-capital credentials, and job/labor-market characteristics."