SOCI 1501 Lecture 1: Untitled document
What is Sociology?
- Study of action and order
- Social science
- Scientific examination of our social world
- Views most of social reality as invented by human society
● Qualitative research
- What is the quality of something
- What is the meaning embedded to something
Social construction and the matrix
● Everywhere and all around us
● “The world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth
What is Social Construction?
● No one true reality
● Reality as we know it is a consequence of society Example: Telling women they have to
wear dresses
● Our belief in social constructions
● Truth
● Natural “race, class, gender”
Thinking sociologically
● Questioning what is considered a natural true reality?
● How did society socially construct race, class or gender?
Matrix of Domination
- Race, Class and Gender are overlapping, cumulative and interconnected
- Race, Class and Gender are “historically grounded”
- What is the concept of the “matrix of domination” help us do that concept of “difference”
does not?
- What do the authors say about diversity
- What are some benefits?
- What are some downfalls of using this concept
- What do they know about multiculturalism?
- What does it focus on?
- What does it leave out?
Chance, Context and Choice in the social construction of Race
- Thomas describes his racial transformation, which is Beth willed yet not willed
- The first terms of importance in the definition of race I advance are “morphology and
ancestry”
- Given Piri status as a Puerto Rican with ancestral traits, three continents, there is a
certain absurdity to his insistence that he is black
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