SOC 153 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Milgram Experiment, White Privilege, Group Dynamics

• School: Miami University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 153
• Professor: Steven Nelson

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Access to resources and a market for those resources. Reference groups are a set of people you compare yourself to to. Thus the structure of a network largely determines: see whether you are in the norm. How informed you are, intellectually and socially. Society is organized through our social networks according to nancy ditomaso. Nancy ditomaso: we get jobs through networkspeople knowing people that connect you to other people. Whites disproportionately hold jobs with more authority and higher pay and opportunities for skill development and training, and more links to other jobs they can benefit from racial inequality without being racists and without discriminating against nonwhites. In facts, the argue that the ultimate white privilege is the privilege not to be racist and still benefit from racial inequality. Whites" networks tend to be closer to centers of money, power and opportunity.