SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Jewish Question, Contact Hypothesis, Social Inequality

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Bellin

Document Summary

Cooptation/repression/ go mainstream decline (regardless of result, always a decline in every social change) Emergence coalescence institutionalization result: success/failure/ Ruling: you can"t even ask about race/gender/class: this was a woman who challenged aa. No clear answer about whether we need affirmative action to secure equality. Improve social equality (one of primary goals of sociology) Sociologists will continue to address gender, race, class, crime, economy, politics, individual-issues, mental and emotional wellbeing, health: a further call for interdisciplinary work. In the end, everyone is so confused about who does/doesn"t have a star that they realize it is pointless they are all actually the same. Improving society through reducing discrimination/stereotypes and social inequality. Contact hypothesis: contact with other groups will reduce discrimination and inequality (the more we interact with people who are different from us, the less we discriminate because we realize everyone is human) But the united states is highly segregated.