Sociology Now, Census Update
After World War II, colonialism gradually ended, today only a few colonial possessions are left, mostly small islands (Bermuda, ...
Theperipheryis the opposite zone, corresponding roughly with the Third World, and includes countries that were under Western Eur ...
periphery to core. However, some goods and services flow from core to periphery, and of course states within a zone trade with e ...
But Japan was never a European colony and in fact had its own colonial empire before World War II. None of these countries recei ...
CHAPTER REVIEW 239 ladder, although most individuals remain in or near the class position they are born into. 3.How do sociologi ...
240 CHAPTER 7STRATIFICATION AND SOCIAL CLASS 7.1 Conflict between Poor and Rich in the United States This is actual survey data ...
WHAT DOES AMERICA THINK? 241 The differences among social classes for giving money to charity were much greater than the differ ...
8 ■Distinguishing between Race and Ethnicity What Is Race? Biraciality and Multiraciality ■The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity M ...
WHEN WE THINK ABOUT RACE, we typically think of the most primordial and basic attri- butes of a person, fixed and permanent, a f ...
Distinguishing between Race and Ethnicity Race and ethnicity are sometimes used interchangeably, but actually they are based on ...
What Is Race? To this day, we still do not have a good definition of race. Some textbooks say, “a set of obvious physical traits ...
science” tried to give the real people/barbarian division a scientific-sounding gloss arguing that some “races” of people were m ...
screenwriters often made their villains “half-breeds” as a shorthand way of denoting that they were morally depraved and not to ...
Yet race and ethnicity are not all about inequality. They also give us a profound sense of identity. If you are African American ...
goodness, and happiness, and “Black” with corruption, evil, and sadness (Greenwald, McGhee, and Schwartz, 1998; Hofmann et al., ...
They were mostly middle class and Protestant, and they settled in small towns, where they assimilated quickly into the middle-cl ...
However, the melting pot seemed to work only with Europeans and with some drawbacks: Assimilation meant abandoning cultural trad ...
cantly different in their strength, physical power, intelligence, musical ability, or other characteristics. Sometimes these pub ...
Discrimination Discriminationis a set of actions based on prejudice and stereotypes. They often, but need not, negatively affect ...
subconsciously, that being White is just better than being something else. Similarly, many acts of discrimination are so subtle, ...
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