SOC 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Inequality, Stereotype, Scientific Management

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 100A
• Professor: Rahul Ravi

Document Summary

Social construction of race, ethnicity, gender, and class: Race, racism, and ethnicity: theories of racism, global hierarchy of race. Dna wise all people are essentially the same. The idea of race is influenced by society. them. Biological explanations: issues of type, based on geographical location. Racism: associating certain behaviors based on skin color and discriminating against. Ethnicity as a social process; ethnicity and migration. Ethnicity explains people who have the same culture, history, traditions. Indigenous people were at the bottom of the hierarchy. When people migrate they bring their culture with them. Assimiliation in melting pot, have to change who you are. Status is based on what you do and don"t buy. Not as much about how much money you have but more about the prestige you have. Difference between conceptions of class in marx and weber. Key texts: by marx & engels bourgeois and proletarians ; cohen & kennedy, pp. 146-69;