SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: W. E. B. Du Bois, Homer Plessy, The Talented Tenth

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Jared Burdick Strohl

Document Summary

Society: norms, expected, socially accepted ways of behaving, these behavioral guidelines ae contextual, meaning that they can change based on person, place, situation. Agency & changing norms: so social norms change over time, social norms also change based on place you are in, norms can change based on institutional or situational context, family, work, education, religion, government, media, health & medical. Agency: what influences the decisions we make & the practices we participate in. Individualism racism vs structural racism: colorblind racism. 2x as likely to receive a death sentence in a court of law. Structural racism & implicit bias: implicit bias helps to explain why social interactions often have racialized outcomes. Structural racism: colorism, knowledge (what we teach, learn & historically remember) institutional inequality (education & criminal justice, all examples of structural racism how racial inequality infiltrates interpersonal relations, more powerful and influential. Sex biological traits that society associates with being male or female.