SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Interpersonal Relationship, Feminist Theory, Totalitarianism
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Identify factors that contribute to poverty and food insecurity. The lack of government aid to help those in poverty leads to food insecurity. Other government programs like lack of universal health care plays a role in both poverty and food insecurity. Lack of resources in general leads to both problems. Explain what it means to say that race/ethnicity and gender are socially constructed. It means that race, ethnicity, and gender only exist because we make them exist. There are only a title that we put on a group of characteristics or traits that a person carries with them that they were born with and did not choose. Analyze the effects of race/ethnicity and gender on life chances in the u. s. Race and ethnicity seriously alter someone"s life chances. If you are titled white , your life chances go way up because you are considered the majority and seen as normal or better.
