SOCI 1501W Lecture 1: soci1501w notes 1
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Notes 1: our social and cultural environments help shape us, humans are essentially social in nature. Identity: how am i doing, we are fundamentally ties in to other people! What % of your high school was white? (cid:498)non-whites(cid:499) is an awkward label. Whites usually live in white communities and vice versa. If you live in a community that is so racially homogenous then you wont have the opportunity or possibly even the desire to be near those who are different than you. What makes a [white] person [white]: skin color, inside vs. outside (?, anyone with non european ancestry.
