SOC 134 Lecture 2: Methods: The Social Construction of Race
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Epistemology: the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion. Consider affordability, time, access, scope, and purpose. Recall: the ideas of the ruling class are in. Every age the ruling ideas marx and engels. The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only storyshow a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become. - adichie. Key point: for later generation white ethnics, ethnicity is not something that. Majority (in social power) group thought experiments are misleading influences their lives unless they want it to. Cultural capital: wealth in the form of knowledge, ideas, verbal skills, and ways of thinking and behaving. Does the method give results that are: What is the sociological context of the content"s analyst (reflexivity: you!)
