SOC 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Text, White Privilege, Role Conflict
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Cathy asking kids to bring in groceries, role of children. Sybils job is to do stuff, not someone to talk to, function. Roles of david and janice are differentiated and different based on their gender. In this movie, these children represent the clear differentiation of gender that was typical in white 1950 suburban america. Don"t include quotes in outline, make the argument but don"t say where you"re getting it. Role conflict - the path of least resistance in one system is a path of much greater. Everything we do or experience happens in relation to a social text of some kind. Because white privilege is built into the system itself, i don"t have to like it or believe in it or even do anything to receive it. Sociological practice gets me off the hook of personal guilt and blame for a world that i did not create and that is not my fault.
