SOCA03Y3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Double Consciousness, Total Internal Reflection, Social Forces
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Mill"s term for the ability to perceive how dynamic social forces. Stepping out of your own condition and looking at yourself from a new perspective. Internal reflection makes us see ourselves differently and makes us more enabled to become informed about the social forces that have come together to make us who we are. Double- consciousness: du boi"s concept of the divided identity experienced by american blacks. Seeing one self through the eyes of someone else. 1) members of the majority as americans 2) discriminated against because they were black. American racial inequality deflected away from the critiques of white racial dominance and toward non-racial social concerns like immigration, class inequality, politics, and cultural nationalism. Generalized others: a compilation of attributes associated with the average member if society: represents an individual"s appreciation that other members of society behave within certain socially accepted guidelines and rules. Importance of family and how it affects our behaviour.
