Introduction Although genetics certainly do define the physical features and characteristics of individuals, “race” itself is an arbitrary classification, much as geo-political boundaries are. Geopolitical boundaries are “real&rdquo Continue Reading...
Race is a philosophical issue because it has a strong bearing on identity construction and metaphysical or ontological self-concept. As long as race remains relevant as a means of constructing personal identity or projecting identity onto other peopl Continue Reading...
Literature Review This literature review examines the problem of racism and bigotry that continues to exist, not just in the U.S. but all over the world. As nationalism is surging in places like the U.S., the UK, Hungary, Italy, Russia and China, the Continue Reading...
Discursive construction refers to the ways identities related to gender, ethnicity, nationality, race, or any other parameter, are constructed through discourse. Discourse implies relationship and communication, and it can also relate to power differ Continue Reading...
2. What are the strengths and weaknesses of an individual or social perspective on adult learning? Is one more relevant than another in certain contexts? In many respects, the strengths and weaknesses of both individual and social perspectives are Continue Reading...
Whites generally were associated with roles including plantation overseers and supervisors or small proprietors; free non-whites generally suffered from circumscribed social and political abilities prior to the revolution (Knight, 2005). While their Continue Reading...
Race and Cultural Minorities Two centuries ago, Washington and Dubois debated the concept of race, a social construct based on an imagined demarcation that separated one group of human beings from another. Even then, the nuanced paradox of falsehood Continue Reading...
Race, Class, And Gender in the United States The purpose of the book Race, Class, and Gender in the United States by Paula Rothenberg is to explore sociological implications of these three topics. The book discusses how each of these ideas, which so Continue Reading...
Race and Incarceration Prison The American Penal System has gone through various changes but the most profound changes have been studied in relation the race inequality. Going to jail has become the norm for most of the African-American men. This i Continue Reading...
The different "isms" such as sexism, heterosexism, and racism are creating very real schisms -- in our minds, and between people. The chasms of communication that are created by hatred and misunderstanding are socially constructed. They can be soci Continue Reading...
Empire The theme of gender and sexuality is related to social power. In Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico, Briggs shows how race, class, gender, and power are interrelated and interconnected. Puerto Rican cu Continue Reading...
In “Crimes Which Startle and Horrify: Gender, Age, and the Racialization of Sexual Violence in White American Newspapers, 1870-1900,” Estelle Fredman situates rape as a series of interconnected power relations, focusing on the intersectio Continue Reading...
Racism On the surface, as a basic definition, racism is the belief that some racial / ethnic groups are superior to other groups. Racism and discrimination have historically been used as "powerful weapons encouraging fear or hatred of others in time Continue Reading...
Birth Order and Juvenile Delinquency Psychologists have long studied the effects of birth order on a person's personality. Sigmund Freud, for example, believed that "the position of a child in the family order is a factor of extreme importance in de Continue Reading...
Benjamins, M., Whitman, S. (2014). Relationships between discrimination in health care and health care outcomes among four race/ethnic groups. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 37: 402-413. The researchers are based out of Sinai Urban Health Institut Continue Reading...
Race, class, gender, ethnicity, and religion are all variables that impact a person’s identity, worldview, communication style, and behaviors. Applying the sociological imagination to the workplace environment enables a greater understanding of Continue Reading...
The Jews for example assume anti-Semitism where this is not necessarily the case, whereas many of the local people accuse the Jews of wanting to take over the town by buying the slaughterhouse. In both cases the accusations are neither true nor real Continue Reading...
' Culture, in Buck's point-of-view, and the construction of race, thus had a greater importance upon the creation of modern Kentucky than a logical evaluation of individual's real interests. This is why both whites and blacks have been worked to the Continue Reading...
2001 1. Then, they could sort taxonomically. In other words, one man's 'smart' is another man's 'dopey', concepts that have little to do with the "intelligence" IQ tests are designed to measure. This is certainly, as well, a clear indication of how Continue Reading...
race? Racial Formation Racial Formation as part of everyday life experience The Evolution of Modern Racial Awareness Introduction to the racist reactions Social Construction Theory Development of the Social Construction Framework Propositions Continue Reading...
Ethnomethodologists Ethnicity and ethnic groupings are socially constructed ideas. This means that the things we consider to be designations between peoples, such as their skin color or nationality, are really just arbitrary determinations. For exam Continue Reading...
Dimensions of Social Inequality Race, Class, Sex, Marriage, Gender: Social Scholars' Dimensions of Social Equity and Inequality Race, Class, Sex, Marriage, Gender: Social Scholars' Dimensions of Social Equity and Inequality Race, Gender, Sex, Marr Continue Reading...
America: Readings in Race, Culture, and Conflict Susan Wyle's book Revisiting America: Readings in Race, Culture, and Conflict explores the history of the America through the lens of the political, racial, social, and cultural issues that make up t Continue Reading...
Terrorism How does terrorism affect children? Children are often the victims of terrorism, and sometimes die in terrorist attacks (Dyson, 2001). When children witness or survive a terrorist attack, psychological ramifications like post-traumatic st Continue Reading...
American society does view identity and social belonging through intersecting lenses of race, class, and gender. The lenses through which people view society and themselves determine everything from self-concept to worldview and values. According to Continue Reading...
Representational Intersectionality Beyond Race: Persons of Mixed Races and Categories of “Otherness” in Feminist Studies Intersectionality is not simply a popular term in academia or a hot buzzword in the popular discourse. It is somethin Continue Reading...
Violence Becker, S, Tinkler, J (2015) 'Me Getting Plastered and Her Provoking My Eyes': Young People's Attribution of Blame for Sexual Aggression in Public Drinking Spaces, Feminist Criminology, 10(3): 235-258. This article is about how "unregula Continue Reading...
John Burdick in “The Lost Constituency of Brazil’s Black Movements” questions the narrative that race mixing, or mestizaje, is a solution to the problem of race in Brazil. Burdick states that “in Brazil the social perception o Continue Reading...
Bazin, Mulvey, the "Male Gaze," and Taxi Driver The claim that Taxi Driver refutes Bazin's photographic/realist notion of cinema and affirms Mulvey's idea of the "male gaze" is valid when one considers the film in light of the "lens" of director Sco Continue Reading...
Exclusion Deutsch, Sarah. 1987. No separate refuge: culture, class, and gender on an Anglo-Hispanic frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940. New York: Oxford University Press. Race has excluded people of color and ethnic groups in the Southwe Continue Reading...
PUDD'NHEAD WILSON Mark Twain was a great writer with perfect blend of wit and humor. While his work focused on the humorous aspects of every day life, he would often bring a touch of earthly wisdom to it, thus perfecting the art of story telling. Tw Continue Reading...
Solidarity created via black feminist discourse is empowering. The acknowledgment of a collective black female identity can lead African-American women to value rather than shun their identities and to embrace the fullness of their culture. Psycholo Continue Reading...
In other words, World War II produced an important shift in both mentality and reality. Although many of the women who had been employed during the war returned to being homemakers, there was also a significant percentage which managed to reconcile Continue Reading...
Racism and Various Forms How does an understanding of racism in its various forms inform the counseling professional practice? Racism is regarded as the negative feelings exercised by one ethnic group towards other individuals belonging form a diff Continue Reading...
Blinded By Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind In Western culture as a whole, sight or visual eyewitness proof or testimony is taken to be the ultimate proof of veracity, including of the construct of race. But what if sight were actuall Continue Reading...
Race and Gender Sociological Principles/Perspectives of Race Race is the physical difference that various cultures and groups think are socially different. Principles of sociology seek to establish how ethnicity and race are constructed socially; i Continue Reading...
Race/Ethnicity or Sex/Gender as Socially Constructed Categories Sociological ethnicity and race theories have been dictated by the social construct metaphor, which indicates that these theories are ideological groups that serve to conceal the actual Continue Reading...
