[SOC 019] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (58 pages long)

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 019
• Professor: Matsumoto

Document Summary

This class discusses race affects people throughout their lives, different races and multi or biracial groups. Focusing on sociologists theories and ways of dealing with race as a social construct. Black unemployment is 2x that of whites in 2012. 2000 is when hispanics became the largest minority (until then it had been african americans). Social institutions shape people"s perceptions, attitudes, & relationships regarding race . Political, ideological, & economic conditions generate & reproduce the concept of race . Insider"s viewpoint: the idea that one furthers their understanding when being part of a religion. Outsider"s viewpoint: supposes that no religious commitment is needed to be able to understand a religion. Analyze: look at the components and break everything apart in order to understand them individually. Synthesize: use one"s understanding of the individual components to generate a new understanding of the larger concept. Ninian smart: scottish scholar of religion (focused on hinduism but interested in the worldwide phenomenon of religion).