Midterm (Notes from class) Flashcards
What are we concerned with in Sociology?
With how systems or structures and institutions shape life and individuals . And, the system that shapes the oppurtunities indivuduals have.
What is Race?
Socially constructed; ascribed
What is ethnicity?
Group that shares culture, nationality, language, ancestery, not ascriptive
(Be clear: Structure or agency) All of us are born into __?
A set of social structures
In the context of sociology of race and ethnicity what forces are shaping people’s lives?
I believe institutions and ideologies, look at dubois’s theory, deva pagers theory, and Ta-Nahesi Coates theory
What is Agency?
Free will, choice
What is Phenotype?
Set of observable charecterisitcts on a individual
What are the three main features relating to Phenotype?
hair texture, facial feature, skin color
Race changes across ___ and _____
Time and Place
Race is ascriptive. What does this mean?
Something larger than yourself assigns you to a racial categoru
What is the word that matches wit this definition? “How we give meaning to racial categories”?
Racialization
What are the three main elements apart of racialization?
Ideology, institutions, and identities
Biologists have come to the conclusion in the past 50 years that race is not biologically rather just an arbitary division of humanity on the basis of skin color and other facial features. T O F
True
How do we allocate resources presently?
Gender, class and race
Greeks and romans attached ________ special meaning to skin color
no
