SOCI 1501W- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 21 pages long!)
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Notes 1: our social and cultural environments help shape us, humans are essentially social in nature. Identity: how am i doing, we are fundamentally ties in to other people! What % of your high school was white? (cid:498)non-whites(cid:499) is an awkward label. Whites usually live in white communities and vice versa. If you live in a community that is so racially homogenous then you wont have the opportunity or possibly even the desire to be near those who are different than you. What makes a [white] person [white]: skin color, inside vs. outside (?, anyone with non european ancestry. Inequality creates difference: race, class, and gender are differences we have created at the expense of others. At a point in time when gender should matter the least, it matters the most. At a point in time when gender should have mattered the most, it mattered the least. We treat ourselves as if we need gender to matter a lot.
