SO 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Internal Revenue Code, Federal Housing Administration
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Looking at different genders, races, and classes of humans in a society. Problems are in society/social more than the individual. Examples: divorce, finances and unemployment, price of education. United states: most see race as a white/non-white differentiation. This concept is different all over the world. Race in a society is made of collective action and personal practice. Difficult for people of multiple identities because of social pressure. 1680: people of different ethnic groups, but did not categorize them as such on the pigmentation of their skin. This changed at the turn of the 19th century. Southern and eastern european, jews, and irish wanted to be considered white. Race is unstable and is a decentered complex of social meanings. We catergerize and invent stereotypes to fit other humans. Come from wealth, chances of being wealthy in the future are high. Non-whites are paid more into the system and paid less. Welfare: excluded black women and children until the 1960"s.
