SOCI 1501 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Social Class, Intersectionality, Communism
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Views most of social reality as invented by human society. What is the meaning embedded to something. The world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. Reality as we know it is a consequence of society example: telling women they have to wear dresses. Race, class and gender are overlapping, cumulative and interconnected. Race, class and gender are historically grounded . What do the authors say about diversity. What are some downfalls of using this concept. Chance, context and choice in the social construction of race. Thomas describes his racial transformation, which is beth willed yet not willed. The first terms of importance in the definition of race i advance are morphology and ancestry . Given piri status as a puerto rican with ancestral traits, three continents, there is a certain absurdity to his insistence that he is black.
