SOC 205- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 22 pages long!)
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Impression management: self is an arrangement of social performances, the face that you present. Front stage: where we try to impress an impression on others. Back stage: where we can relax and not have to impress others. Distinction between stages tends to be mch wider for people of color than for whites. Because white people belong to the dominant racial category, they need not be reflexive to get ahead. Testing: feeling out members of other racial or ethnic groups to evaluate their level of racial tolerance. Racial identity interacts with other aspects of self to produce a full, intersectional identity. Within communities, struggles takep lace between immigrants and native-born americans. It is (cid:373)arked through a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a"s ra(cid:272)ial ta(cid:454)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)(cid:455), (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h seeks to di(cid:448)ide the (cid:374)atio(cid:374) i(cid:374)to disti(cid:374)(cid:272)t categories: race imposes itself on you. It"s (cid:373)ade through hu(cid:374)dreds and thousands of practices: you perform race.
