SOCY 1021 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Racial Profiling, Double Consciousness, Internalized Oppression
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Sociological imagination: a concept used by the american sociologist c. wright. Mills to describe the ability to think yourself away from the familiar routines of everyday life and look at them from an entirely new perspective. Conventional wisdom: the unstated, internally inconsistent resistant to change. Post-racial : the common belief that race no longer determines life like it did. Having a black president sparked a lot of media about how we"re final equal and what a great achievement and that someday is now . Na ve belief that racial inequality, segregation, and discrimination are things of the past. A growing trend that race matters less than it use to in determining the quality of life. According to the asa statement, as long as americans routinely sort each other into racial categories and act on the basis of those attributions, research on the role of race and race relations in the united states are significant.
